That’s a lesson that, according to a Twitter post, a teacher recently passed on to a child. In context, the lesson seems a little less atrocious: The teacher was talking about the first sentence in a ...

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In Maryland criminal cases, a defendant might receive an "active" prison sentence of 10 or 15 years for an offense, but be released before the entire sentence is served. How much time an inmate serves ...

In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — State prison officials are considering changes that would allow them to potentially shave years off inmate sentences, a proposal that San Diego’s top prosecutor opposes but reform ...

For about a year now, sentences have been handed out to those responsible for the death of Tera Lewandowski. In all, six of the seven people affiliated with a small biker gang arrested in connection ...

Where shall/should you/one start/begin? At the start/beginning, of course! You ought always, and in everything you do, to begin a sentence at the beginning. It is simply no good to start in the middle ...