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What is the Longest Possible Prison Sentence for a Single Crime? (2018x98)
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With the long-running debate over mandatory minimum sentences over the past couple of decades, it’s easy to forget that judges and juries often have a great deal of discretion when it comes to imposing criminal sentences for individual crimes. So while we can’t say what single crime will definitively result in the longest prison sentence, we can look at the crimes that have resulted in the records for the longest prison sentences in the United States and around the globe.
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Sources:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/15/nation/la-na-nn-long-prison-sentences-20120815
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-banner/castro-technically-still-_b_3922691.html
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/justice/ariel-castro-cleveland-kidnapper-death/
http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/conmanmin.pdf/%24file/conmanmin.pdf
http://www.smh.com.au/national/a-dangerous-mind-what-turned-martin-bryant-into-a-mass-murderer-20090426-ajk4
http://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/news/congressional-testimony-and-reports/mandatory-minimum-penalties/20111031-rtc-pdf/Chapter_02.pdf
http://abcnews.go.com/US/jared-fogle-sentenced-15-years-prison/story?id=35302295
http://wtkr.com/2015/11/19/jared