Arrests and Sentencing
Arrests and Sentencing are critical components of the criminal justice system, directly impacting the correctional workforce. This section provides articles that explore the processes, legal standards, and implications of Arrests and Sentencing in various jurisdictions. Understanding how arrests lead to sentencing decisions and how these outcomes affect correctional facilities is essential for professionals in the field. For more insights, see our related resources on Re-Entry and Recidivism.
According to a FPC Bryan inmate handbook, the former Theranos CEO, if eligible to work, can earn between 12 cents and $1.15 per hour
Holmes is serving her sentence at FPC Bryan, a minimum-security prison camp in Texas that encompasses about 37 acres of land and houses about 650 women
Maryland’s highest court issued an order that prevents the reinstatement of Syed’s murder conviction by a lower court
Judge Chris Cleaveley told Downes that he needed to respect authority figures
Former Chief Judge Belvin Perry said that though some may see a contempt charge as re-victimizing the woman, the law is the law
Typically, they would be held in a federal detention center, but this group is so violent and so well-known that there were concerns they would wreak havoc on security
Fifty-one-year-old Teresa Owens was arrested the following day after deputies searched the couple’s home
47-year-old Greg Howard was sentenced for robbing and assaulting a 91-year-old woman during a home invasion
Nicholas Brendon faces charges of robbery, obstruction of breathing and criminal mischief, Saratoga Springs police Lt. Bob Jillson said
Victim’s family wanted death penalty
Sergeant First Class David Hall pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DWI and felony hit and run in for a 2013 accident that killed Correctional Officer David Keller
A man who voiced the Peanuts character Charlie Brown when he was nine years old is now facing prison time
Vice Special Report: Fixing The System” makes a convincing case for reform in part by the use of statistics that have become disturbing to both Democratic and Republican politicians in recent years
Alex Hribal is charged as an adult in the April 2014 rampage at Franklin Regional High School
Package had semi-automatic handgun and several cell phones
Stewart Parnell apologized years after his company’s peanut butter spawned a deadly outbreak of salmonella poisoning
34-year-old Steven Felton, of Emmaus, was sentenced to 62 to 124 years on Monday
Anthony “Big Tony” Moscatiello was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a mob-connected 2001 slaying
An East Coast drifter accused of being a serial killer told fellow prison inmates that he killed seven people in Connecticut in 2003
A man is charged with burglary after police say he returned to a Twin Falls, Idaho, home for his forgotten car keys and cellphone
Prosecutors are urging a jury to recommend the death penalty for Anthony “Big Tony” Moscatiello for orchestrating a 2001 mob hit on a prominent businessman
Twenty-year-old Johnesha Perry is charged with criminal homicide and child endangerment in the May death of Zymeir Perry
An Indianapolis man has filed notice that he will appeal his sentence of life in prisonwithout parole for blowing up a house and killing two neighbors in 2012
A man and woman were told not to be in contact with each other after the man was found instructing the woman on how to sell drugs
Kelly Jo Ivey was sentenced Friday in Houston, one day after a Harris County jury found her guilty of intoxication manslaughter
Oklahoma Board of Corrections approved a governor’s recommendation for sentencing changes that will lead to the release of hundreds of serious offenders
19-year-old broke into a middle school, rode down hallways on a buffing machine until he got on and stuck in an elevator
Russell Taylor is expected to plead guilty to child exploitation and child pornography at the Dec. 10 hearing
Agreed unanimously that the federal charges were appropriate, and that prison sentences of at least three decades each were warranted
If the judge agrees with the jury’s recommendation, it’s unclear if the death penalty would be carried out in Frazier Glenn Miller’s case
Erlynn Sanchez-Edwards was arrested in Oakland after a tip
Frank Freshwaters could serve up to 20 years on his original charge
Genevieve Kelley pleaded guilty in June to misdemeanor charges of custodial interference for taking her then-8-year-old daughter out of the country in 2004