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.
Theranos founder objects to $250 monthly restitution sought by US due to limited financial resources
Prosecutors want Elizabeth Holmes to pay $250 a month to victims of her failed blood testing startup after she leaves prison, but her attorneys are pushing back
Kaczynski conducted a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others
The “clean slate” bill would automatically seal most recent convictions — 3 years after serving time or parole for a misdemeanor, and 8 years for felony convictions
Ali Shukri Amin pleaded guilty in June to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists
A man serving 15 years related to an assault over a pork chop will serve another 15-year sentence for hitting a jail officer
Phillip Patrick Garnier was ranked No. 18 on the Colorado Bureau of Investigations Top 100 Wanted Sex Offenders list
A 19-year-old Pennsylvania man faces federal charges over a Facebook post threatening to kill preschool children even after telling investigators he merely has a dark sense of humor
18-year-old man is charged in the deaths of a husband and wife who authorities say stopped to offer him help on the side of the road
Amber McBride pleaded guilty to child endangerment and was sentenced Monday
Men prepared to fly drugs, tobacco and pornography into the maximum-security institution
Kevin Norton, 18, of Ames, Iowa, and James Stumbo, 27, of Boone, Iowa, were ordered held without bail on gun charges Monday pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Sept. 1
A woman played dead to avoid being killed by her boyfriend after he threw her down a flight of stairs and shoved a rag down her throat
Steven Craig Rozier Jr. was sentenced Friday
Todd Herrin is scheduled to stand trial Sept. 29 on a charge of aggravated burglary for stealing a loaf of bread, a bag of candy, several other food items and a radio
Federal Public Defender Donna Elm’s office calculated that the sentence reductions in the Middle District of Florida will save taxpayers more than $21 million
Nosakhare Onumonu was sentenced Friday in Detroit’s Wayne County Circuit Court to a mandatory term of life in prison without parole
A federal judge has scheduled a Nov. 19 change-of-plea and sentencing hearing for former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle
New Mexico Court of Appeals upheld convictions for two Las Cruces brothers who were found guilty in 2012 of kidnapping and assaulting a 17-year-old male and his mother’s boyfriend two years earlier
New Jersey man who carved a swastika into the lawn of a family he had harassed has been sentenced to 15 months in prison
Magistrate Peter Mealy told the grandmother of two on Friday that he would have sentenced her to prison if not for the fact that there had been no more offenses since that single night in 1984
Rochelle Herman-Walrond, a former journalist, told media outlets she wore a wire to record conversations of Fogle
Judge Michael Bohren also said the young teens will stand trial together starting Oct. 15
Stated in a letter he intended to kill the man so he could be moved out of Kansas to solitary confinement in another state
Was sentenced Thursday to up to 16 years in prison by a judge who called his behavior “reckless, stupid and selfish”
Brittany Ruck pleaded no contest in July to aggravated assault of a child
Employees recognized him from surveillance footage of a recent break-in
Man awaiting trial on terrorism charges has been indicted on new charges of assaulting a fellow inmate at a federal jail
Video shows Dewey Green dancing, horsing around in jail; defense hoped to use head injury to explain that Green wasn’t in control of the vehicle that killed Janice Pitts
Kit Darrant pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the 2012 slaying of Renette Emile, 35
Supreme Court ruled that his confession was obtained improperly
An Ohio man has been sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of stabbing a landscaper who he said got grass clippings on his truck
Judge: “He was not a bystander who got caught up in the plans of others. He made the plans.”
Michael Jones, 23, is one of three men who allegedly stole two television cameras and two tripods while news crews reported on a murder from a popular pedestrian pier