After seven years in one of the country's most severe prisons, where she was beaten, abused with pepper spray and left to starve for days, she was eventually released – and that was only because the police officer's family granted her a pardon.
After seven years in one of the country's most severe prisons, where she was beaten, abused with pepper spray, and left to starve for days, she was eventually released and that was only because the police officer's family granted her a pardon.
If Sim Lake, the federal judge overseeing Mr. Olis's case, agrees with the sentencing recommendation of probation officers, it would be the most severe prison term for a business crime in recent memory, several sentencing experts said.
Many of these nonviolent, addicted individuals have no substantial role in the drug trade, yet receive severe prison sentences.
The subsequent forced confessions resulted in many individuals being sentenced to severe prison terms or, in some cases, death.
He was a prosecutor in Mr. Abdel Rahman's 1995 terrorism trial and later administered severe prison restrictions that were imposed on the sheik.
"By reserving the most severe prison terms for serious, high-level, or violent drug traffickers or kingpins, we can better enhance public safety," Mr. Holder said.
The agents were sentenced to unusually severe prison terms ranging from fifteen years to double-life terms in December , 2001 after a jury trial in South Florida found them guilty of espionage and other offenses.
1938 Al Capone Goes Berserk SAN FRANCISCO — Al Capone, former No. 1 gangster of the United States, has broken under the severe prison discipline of the notorious Alcatraz Island, the "San Francisco News" revealed today [Feb. 8] in an exclusive story.
The agents were sentenced to unusually severe prison terms — ranging from fifteen years to double-life terms — in December , 2001 after a jury trial in South Florida found them guilty of espionage and other offenses.
"In the vernacular of the day, 'There oughta be a law.' " He sent letters to prominent New Yorkers urging their support for "a law, whereby a person having a revolver in his possession, either concealed or displayed, unless for some legitimate purpose, could be punished by a severe prison sentence," as he told The New York Times less than a week after the killing (pdf).
