• Trump commutes long-time adviser Roger Stone's prison sentence https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-stone/witch-hunt-trump-commutes-longtime-adviser-roger-stones-prison-sentence-iduskbn24b351 9 comments 11/7/2020 worldnews
• Donald Trump commutes prison sentence of long-time adviser Roger Stone https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-11/donald-trump-commutes-long-time-adviser-roger-stone-sentence/12445732?fbclid=iwar0zu7xhdzbnvaswio-gght59rvj_4twdyxjmpigjj3tw20zgkluhbekpgu 18 comments 11/7/2020 worldnews
• Iranian Couple Handed Long-Term Prison Sentences For Posting Dance Video https://iranwire.com/en/news/113212-iranian-couple-handed-long-term-prison-sentences-for-posting-dance-video/ 151 comments 30/1/2023 worldnews
• The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years: America’s prison sentences are far too long. It’s time to do something about it. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18184070/maximum-prison-sentence-cap-mass-incarceration 114 comments 31/1/2020 politics
• Ex-Blackwater Guards Sentenced to Long Prison Terms in 2007 Killings of Iraqi Civilians http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/us/ex-blackwater-guards-sentenced-to-prison-in-2007-killings-of-iraqi-civilians.html 3 comments 14/4/2015 politics
• Biden just commuted the sentence of the “kids for cash” judge, who was being bribed to send kids to long prison sentences for kickbacks. https://thehill.com/homenews/5039040-kids-for-cash-victim-reacts-after-biden-commutes-sentence-for-pennsylvania-judge/amp/ 440 comments 13/12/2024 politics
• Iranian Women's Rights Activists Sentenced To Long Prison Terms https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-women-activists-sentenced-long-prison-terms/32881067.html 6 comments 28/3/2024 worldnews
• Iran Political Prisoner Hamidreza Amini Issued Long Prison Sentence, Among His Charges Is Two years For “Insulting The Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.” https://iran-hrm.com/index.php/2018/10/03/political-prisoner-hamidreza-amini-issued-long-prison-sentence/ 3 comments 8/10/2018 worldnews
• ‘Do You Still Need This War?’: The Anti-War Russian Teenagers Facing Long Prison Sentences https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/16/do-you-still-need-this-war-the-anti-war-russian-teenagers-facing-long-prison-sentences-a85728 2 comments 21/7/2024 europe
• Uyghurs in Xinjiang are being given long prison sentences. Their families say they have done nothing wrong https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/china/xinjiang-prisons-china-intl-hnk-dst/index.html 41 comments 25/6/2021 worldnews
• Trump signs executive order 'to protect statues' and threatens long prison sentences https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-executive-order-statues-black-lives-matter-a9588621.html 133 comments 26/6/2020 politics
• Rapper facing long prison sentence over lyrics http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/23/entertainment/tiny-doo-rap-conspiracy-charges/index.html 14 comments 23/1/2015 law
• From a prison sentence and a 3 year suspension from the NFL: Johnny Jolly's long road back to the field http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-gameday/0ap2000000261095/johnny-jolly-s-long-road-back-to-the-field 15 comments 14/10/2013 nfl
• do you think the 3 month sentence for Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich is too much; how long a prison term for killing children and then covering it up? http://www.npr.org/2012/01/23/145656656/in-iraqi-killings-case-marine-takes-plea-deal 14 comments 24/1/2012 politics
• Long sentences--some without the possibility of parole--cause state prison system to create geriatric wing. http://www.necn.com/02/13/11/Aging-inmates-challenge-Missouri-prison-/landing_health.html?&blockID=3&apID=a0874fc9b1724564929d941786f921c8 5 comments 14/2/2011 law
• Rapist cop sentenced to 440 years in prison. We'll see how long he lasts. http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/08/13/news/doc48a1ea54f1a85123765687.txt 4 comments 13/8/2008 reddit.com
• US judge found guilty of conspiracy. Was sentencing minors to long prison terms, at the behest of the private prison companies. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-judge-receives-28year-jail-term-for-his-role-in--kidsforcash-kickbacks-8598147.html 447 comments 6/5/2013 politics
• Elon Musk Says Team Behind CBS's '60 Minutes' Deserves 'A Long Prison Sentence' https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-60-minutes_n_67b3553ae4b0e4f0516445e3 2111 comments 17/2/2025 politics
• Black woman who accused 7 people of brutal rape and torture now says she lied; most of the accused are serving long prison sentences http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091021/ap_on_re_us/us_woman_tortured;_ylt=ahqoc9w2d4uzq1umxr5zl2xdr7sf;_ylu=x3odmtjvdjdhntv1bgfzc2v0a2fwlziwmdkxmdixl3vzx3dvbwfux3rvcnr1cmvkbhbvcwmzoarzzwmdew5fcgfnaw5hdgvfc3vtbwfyev9saxn0bhnsawn3b21hbmlud3zhdg8- 10 comments 21/10/2009 reddit.com
• Trump - "It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think.." https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/933280234220134401 46 comments 22/11/2017 nba
• CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence oversight committee as the committee was preparing an inquiry on them. This should be an immediate decades-long prison sentence for the people involved http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/us/new-inquiry-into-cia-employees-amid-clashes-over-interrogation-program.html 3 comments 5/3/2014 politics
• In a landmark case, a German court convicted Anwar Raslan of overseeing torture at a Syrian detention center nearly a decade ago and sentenced him to life in prison. It was one of the world’s first criminal trials on atrocities in Syria’s decade-long civil war https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/13/world/syria-war-crimes-germany-verdict 3 comments 13/1/2022 worldnews
• A French gangster is on the run after being broken out of prison by heavily armed gunmen and escaping in a helicopter that landed in the prison grounds | Redoine Faid was serving a long-term sentence for armed robbery and the murder of a policewoman in 2010 after a heist that went wrong. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-gangster-escape/french-gangster-flees-prison-after-helicopter-escape-iduskbn1jr1ir 8 comments 1/7/2018 worldnews
• Moroccan King pardons Spanish pedophile serving a 30 year long sentence for the rape of 11 children between the age of 4 and 15, after having spent less than 2 years in prison. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/01/uk-morocco-kings-spain-idukbre9700v120130801 39 comments 1/8/2013 worldnews
• Long sentences for killers likely to face top court challenge, say lawyers - Calgary :- Legal experts say a sentencing provision that can keep killers in prison for the rest of their lives is likely to make its way to the Supreme Court of Canada. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/long-sentences-for-killers-likely-to-face-top-court-challenge-say-lawyers-1.4453266 3 comments 17/12/2017 worldnews
• Two men facebook about riot that didn't take place; given prison sentences twice as long as actually participating in a riot. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/17/england-riots-harsher-sentences-deterrent 557 comments 17/8/2011 worldnews
• Life Sentence for POT?!? Montana cannabis caregiver refuses to plead guilty, faces 90 years in prison. Jerry Sandusky sexually abuses dozens of children and gets a sentence 1/3 as long!! Where's the justice?!? http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012/nov/28/outrage_potential_sentence_monta 69 comments 5/12/2012 politics
• The 17-year prison sentence imposed on convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla is far too lenient for someone who trained to kill at an al Qaeda camp and also has a long, violent criminal history, a federal appeals court ruled Monday as it threw out the sentence. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/19/national/main20108308.shtml 3 comments 20/9/2011 politics
• The Halted Progress of Criminal-Justice Reform | Prosecutors are charging protesters with federal crimes, exposing them to long prison sentences, in another example of the Justice Department’s grotesque overreach under Attorney General William Barr. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-halted-progress-of-criminal-justice-reform 28 comments 12/7/2020 politics
• Pablo Escobar’s crime partner and one of Colombia’s pioneering “cocaine cowboys” has been released after a long prison sentence in the U.S. and been deported to Germany https://abcnews.go.com/international/wirestory/pablo-escobars-crime-partner-freed-us-berlin-71282897 9 comments 16/6/2020 worldnews
• Jail sentences of six months or less should be scrapped, according to the UK prisons minister. In comments reported by The Daily Telegraph, he said that "very short" jail terms were "long enough to damage you and not long enough to heal you". https://news.sky.com/story/minister-scrap-prison-sentences-of-less-than-six-months-11605258 2083 comments 12/1/2019 worldnews
• Pachino Hill, a man with a long history of violent crimes (including murder), was sentenced to church instead of prison. Then he hit someone with a lead pipe, and is set to see the same judge... http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/05/05/news/local/doc481f4b627bf26252429253.txt 4 comments 6/5/2008 politics
• 'Drip drip' of harsh sentences for Cuba protesters deters engagement from U.S. The long prison terms dump "a whole bucket of cold water over any push for improving relations," said Ric Herrero of the Cuba Study Group. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/drip-drip-harsh-sentences-cuba-protesters-deters-engagement-us-rcna23001 2 comments 12/4/2022 worldnews
• Legal scholars warn against 10 year prison for online pirates - The proposed extension is disproportionate, ineffective and puts casual file-sharers at risk of long jail sentences, they argue. https://torrentfreak.com/legal-scholars-warn-against-10-year-prison-for-online-pirates-150815/ 82 comments 15/8/2015 technology
• Legal scholars warn against 10 year prison for online pirates - The proposed extension is disproportionate, ineffective and puts casual file-sharers at risk of long jail sentences, they argue. https://torrentfreak.com/legal-scholars-warn-against-10-year-prison-for-online-pirates-150815/ 2182 comments 15/8/2015 worldnews
• A former Goldman Sachs trader was sentenced to nine months in prison for wire fraud Friday by a Manhattan judge who took sharp aim at both Goldman and the government, questioning why it took them so long to bring the misconduct to light http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ny-judge-questions-delay-rogue-trader-case 54 comments 7/12/2013 politics
• When Cameras Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Cameras! If you witness police misconduct and record it as a video on your phone or camera, you won't be welcomed as a hero. In several U.S. states, you could be subject to a long prison sentence. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/nestmann4.1.1.html 11 comments 15/9/2010 politics
• 5 ex-police officers were sentenced to long prison terms for the shootings of 6 unarmed civilians, killing 2, in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and for orchestrating a wide-ranging cover-up afterward. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/us/5-ex-officers-sentenced-in-post-katrina-shootings.html?_r=2&hp 5 comments 4/4/2012 politics
• The long, slow push to prison sentencing reform: "Nodd was indicted on drug charges...was never caught with drugs and had no prior convictions. But under mandatory minimum sentencing laws, she received a 30-year sentence." http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-long-push-prison-sentencing-reform 35 comments 28/4/2014 politics
• Attorney General Eric Holder directs prosecutors to reduce drug convictions carrying mandatory minimum sentences: "Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for no good law enforcement reason." (x-post from /r/news) http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/12/19978405-holder-some-drug-offenders-shouldnt-face-mandatory-minimum-sentences 19 comments 12/8/2013 politics