It is also the strangest thing he has ever done, compelling but puzzling, its meanings hanging just out of reach, like the long story the protagonist, Tom Levy, hears in a Jamaican prison, which, in the course of the week it takes him to hear it, turns his hair white.
Beyond the significant cost of permanently housing inmates in prison for the course of their lives until they die of natural causes, critics of life-without-parole sentences say that cutting off parole eligibility for a prisoner is unusually harsh because it assumes that their capacity for rehabilitation and transformation is static and predictable at the time of their sentencing.
Two men spent time in prison during the course of their treatment.
(Cable seemed to be preparing to take over the leadership, while Huhne didn't help matters when he ended up in prison for perverting the course of justice).
Former Lib Dem politician Chris Huhne has been sentenced to eight months in prison for perverting the course of justice after his attempt to swap speeding points with ex-wife Vicky Pryce was exposed.
At Southwark Crown Court in London, the judge, Sir Nigel Sweeney, sentenced the defendants — Chris Huhne, 58, formerly the energy minister in Prime Minister David Cameron's cabinet, and Vicky Pryce, 60, a prominent economist — to eight months in prison for perverting the course of justice.
Critics of the governor's bill argued that execution should remain an option for punishing the "worst of the worst," including inmates who commit murder in prison and killers who murder in the course of a rape.
A prison guard who worked in several different Florida prisons over the course of a five-year career before recently quitting, isn't confident Florida's facilities are ready are equipped to deal with a truly bad hurricane.
PARIS — Troops had to be called out and were compelled to make use of their rifles to quell a mutiny at Rochefort prison yesterday [Nov. 19] evening, in the course of which the chief warder and his wife were murdered by the convicts and three other persons were killed.
He is just out of prison for killing Gourmet's son in the course of a robbery five years ago, and Gourmet appears to be making the extraordinary gesture of taking the boy into his pastoral care without revealing the truth to the authorities or to the boy himself.
