Questions tagged [prison]
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Can you get more than 21 years prison in total in Norway for the sum of two completely unrelated crimes?
This should go without saying, but I'm asking this out of sheer curiosity, not for any practical reasons lol.
The maximum prison time one can get for any particular crime in Norway is 21 years. This ...
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How is credit for time served and good time in jail applied against a prison sentence?
If you get 8 years for a crime and you did 16 months already in the county jail, how is the sentence affected (including any impact on the "good time" reduction which is capped at 33 percent ...
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Are prisoners who are doing time allowed to act as a lawyer, or to practise law in any capacity?
I was watching the TV series The Rookie and in season 3 episode 8, an inmate called Oscar Hutchinson is allowed out of prison under supervision to help with a case. The suspect is his daughter, ...
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Student in Paralegal Studies working for a pro se legal in NC? [closed]
Student in Paralegal Studies as of 10/23/2023. Could I send legal information, documentation, case laws to someone that is Pro Se in prison?
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Can felons vote?
I am not familiar with USA laws, but I saw that Maine and Vermont are the only states where felons never lose their right to vote. Is this true? Does that include all elections (I.e., local, state, ...
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How many indictments before imprisonment? [closed]
Donald Trump, ex-president of U.S.A., has many indictments on him, but yet he is still roaming as a free citizen.
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How many indictments does it take for Donald Trump to be imprisoned?
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What does it take to be sentenced to a medium-security prison (US)?
It is a trope that when powerful/rich people are sentenced, they are sent to cushy, low-security prisons (think The Wolf of Wall Street).
However, in my book, I'd like a certain character to be sent ...
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Why do Pride flags fly over British police stations, prisons and other government buildings?
Insofar as this question may have a legal answer, by what provisions or instruments are they flown or allowed to be flown? Who would have the power to decide what flags are flown over such ...
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Countries where re-sentencing is not allowed?
Are there any countries, where currently, a sentence cannot be appealed by the prosecution's side for being unduly lenient?
For example, someone is given a year suspended sentence for burglary, and ...
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What's the minimum time that an indeterminate life sentence (e.g., "25 years to life") may have in the US?
For example, sentences of "15 years to life," "25 years to life," or "life with mercy" are called "indeterminate life sentences" (Wikipedia)
What's the minimum ...
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What is the shortest prison sentence ever given in the US?
What is the shortest recorded prison or jail sentence in US history?
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Are non-contact visitations at max-security federal prisons sometimes supervised? (US)
Not sure if this answer as posed in the title is sufficiently about law to be on-topic. If so, my question defers to the more legal alternative:
Is it legal for a federal prison to supervise the non-...
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idea behind crime punishment
What is the idea behind putting people who commited a crime into prison?
What such a state does is an act, that if a person does to a different person, it is called limiting someone's freedom, which ...
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Are Wayne Couzens's and Julian Assange's food offerings the same as that one would receive in a custody suite if they were arrested?
They are long term prisoners in Belmarsh maximum security prison. Are the regulations governing food offerings for UK detainees the same regardless of the legal context of their detention?
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How much time do I have if I want to sue a county for sending me to prison accidentally California U.S.A
I was sentenced to 16 months county time non violent offender but my paperwork was supposedly lost and ended up with the prison commits and I was sent to prison. Two weeks before my release date my ...
