Sentence examples for state sentences from inspiring English sources

In February Nathan Deal, Georgia's Republican governor, announced a bill to create a council to recommend changes in how his state sentences criminals.

Community Education runs several of the state's largest halfway houses, which hold hundreds of prisoners who are finishing their state sentences.

Mr. Dees said Mr. Dedmon was likely to serve what is expected to be a 50-year sentence in federal prison before beginning his state sentences.

The vast majority of American prisoners are serving state sentences in state prisons, so the reforms must come at the state level.

Coming after several restrictive habeas corpus decisions, the ruling today is likely to further limit federal judges' discretion to set aside state sentences in circumstances where the Supreme Court has not directly addressed an almost identical issue.

In this research, we limit the consideration of action or state sentences.

The state sentence will run concurrent with the federal term.

The judge said Dedmon's federal sentence will run concurrent with his state sentence.

Under her state sentence of 75 years, her earliest parole date is 2056.

The state sentenced nine juvenile offenders for nonhomicide crimes to life without parole in 2005 alone.

That is quadruple the recommended maximum term under state sentencing guidelines.