Sentence examples for released halfway from inspiring English sources

After he was released halfway through his sentence, Oldham Athletic offered him a contract, worth less than a tenth of his previous salary, and asked its supporters "not to pass moral judgment".

A document released halfway through last year's synod showed churchmen moving towards a more open approach to gay Catholics, but fierce protest from conservatives saw these paragraphs stripped from the final text approved by bishops.

Thanks to a change in the law, many of those sentenced since April 2005 will be released halfway through their sentences (not two-thirds of the way through, as before) but they will be watched by probation officers for longer.Underpinning such reforms is a great weight of evidence that offenders, particularly young thieves, benefit little from prison.

What is most common is a fixed-term sentence, from which they would be released halfway through, or an indeterminate sentence, with a recommended tariff at the end of which they will only be released, on lifelong licence, with the approval of the Parole Board.

"Instead of serious, sexual and violent offenders being released halfway through their sentence, we propose they should spend at least two-thirds of that sentence in prison, and that such offenders should never again be released early without the parole board being satisfied that it is safe to let this happen".

Johnny B Goode was released halfway through Dwight Eisenhower's dreary second administration, when black people were still routinely being lynched in the Deep South, so for obvious marketing reasons the original lyric "little coloured boy" was changed to "little country boy".

In some instances we found that individuals released to halfway homes after completing their sentences smoked SC while residing in the halfway home: Russell discusses how SC was the drug of choice among re-entrants in his work release program: That K2 s**t that's all that was in there (halfway house), because to be there period you had to take a urine.

According to the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, in 2009, there was more gang activity in the state's halfway houses than in its prisons, and one study in Pennsylvania even found a higher recidivism rate for those released to halfway houses than for inmates launched directly into the street.

In 2013, a Pennsylvania study concluded that inmates released to halfway houses across the state had worse recidivism rates than their counterparts who were sent directly back into society.

[cartoon id= donnelly-1999-04-12"] In 2013, a Pennsylvania study concluded that inmates released to halfway houses across the state had worse recidivism rates than their counterparts who were sent directly back into society.

In Atlanta last year, managers were called on to work with prisoners released to halfway houses.