Chadwick had been imprisoned for nine years at that time and continued to be held in prison until 2009, when a state court set him free after 14 years, making his imprisonment the longest on a contempt charge to date.

* 1986 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow.

** Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25.

Former detainees of the labor camp system have reported that Falun Gong practitioners are one of the largest groups of prisoners ; in some labor camp and prison facilities, they comprise the majority of detainees, and are often said to receive the longest sentences and the worst treatment.

Most of the gang were eventually caught and, in February 1979, received the longest combined prison sentences in United Kingdom legal history.

He is still in prison over 40 years later and one of the country's longest serving prisoners.

Ultimately, Judge Hoffman severed Seale from the case, sentencing him to four years in prison for contempt of court, one of the longest sentences ever handed down for that offense in the US up to that time.

On November 13, 2009, Jefferson was sentenced to thirteen years in federal prison for bribery after a corruption investigation, the longest sentence ever handed down to a congressman for bribery or any other crime.

* Sholam Weiss, sentenced to the longest federal prison term in United States history for fraud, money laundering and other crimes.

Over the years, some of these have resulted in acquittals and the vast majority end in prison time for the actors, the longest of which were those meted out to the 1984 group, the Silo Pruning Hooks ( after the Biblical verse admonishing people to turn swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks — both Micah and Isaiah ), two of whom earned 18 years in federal prison.

Fearon, a career criminal and Irish traveller, had been convicted at that point of about thirty offences, starting with handling stolen goods in September 1986, for which he was fined £ 25, through theft, burglary, drugs, fraud and wounding, for which he received a one year prison sentence, his third and at the time longest custodial sentence, in May 1997.

Bruno himself avoided lengthy prison terms despite several arrests ; his longest term was two years for refusing to testify to a grand jury.

The construction began with its 394-metre prison wall at a cost of Straits $ 16, 000, and had been adorned with the world's longest mural at one point in its history.

On October 10, 2003, after one of the longest trials in North Carolina history, a Durham County jury found Michael Peterson guilty of the murder of Kathleen Peterson and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

However, at the time of the referendum, the longest available prison sentence was 15 years.

It also lends itself to elaboration, because its tight syntax holds even the longest and most complex sentence together as a logical unit.

Hindawi was jailed for 45 years, the longest sentence ever delivered by a British court.

Terrace, in his article " How Nim Chimpsky Changed My Mind ", quotes Nim's longest sentence as the 16-word-long " Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.

" When written this episode contained the longest " sentence " in English literature, 4, 391 words expressed by Molly Bloom ( it was surpassed in 2001 by Jonathan Coe's The Rotters ' Club ).

Most of the allegations were dismissed and the longest sentence he served was 60 days for the illegal gambling conviction.

The longest sentence was a conviction for 15 years for theft.

At the time, this was the longest custodial sentence in U. S. history.

Donald Keith Newbury, the member with the longest rap sheet of the group, was serving a 99-year sentence, and the youngest member, Randy Halprin, 23, was serving a 30-year sentence for injury to a child.

There have been several claims for the longest sentence in the English language, usually with claims that revolve around the longest printed sentence.

At least one linguistics textbook concludes that " there is no longest English sentence "

* 1, 288 words-The Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for what it claims is the longest sentence in English, from William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom !.

This held the record for the longest sentence until The Rotter's Club was published in 2001.

Jefferson was sentenced to thirteen years on November 13, 2009, the longest sentence yet handed down to a congressman for bribery or any other crime.

The longest additional sentence given to any convict was nine years.

It was the longest sentence ( excluding life terms ) ever handed down by a British court, until Nezar Hindawi was sentenced to 45 years for the attempted bombing of an El Al jet.

The sentence was the longest ever handed down in New York State.

Those imprisoned for multiple crimes will serve a consecutive sentence ( in which the period of imprisonment equals the sum of all the sentences ), a concurrent sentence ( in which the period of imprisonment equals the length of the longest sentence ), or somewhere in between, sometimes subject to a cap.

The Norwegian soap opera Hotel Cæsar has been broadcast on TV 2 since 1998, making it the longest running television drama in Scandinavia.

The program, inaugurated by then Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, is the longest continually operating international business school partnership in China.

Laurdagsbarnetimen, a Norwegian children's show, with its premiere in 1924, is still being broadcast weekly, which makes it the longest running radio show in the world.

The Voe, the longest in Shetland, and partially sheltered by the island of Yell was used as a military airfield during World War II both by the Royal Air Force and the Norwegian Air Force as a location for flying boats.

In the early 18th century the Swedes invaded Norway yet again, and this time the Norwegian army held its own, setting the stage for nearly a century of peace – the longest yet in modern Norwegian history – during which a distinct Norwegian identity began to take root.

The longest and most hazardous stretch of the run was actually covered by another Norwegian, Leonhard Seppala and his dog team, led by Togo.

The period of peace during the minority of king Inge and his brothers – from 1129 until 1155-was the longest peaceful period Norway was to see until 1240, as the dispute between the brothers ushered in the Norwegian civil war era.

The longest overhead line spans are the crossing of the Norwegian Sognefjord ( between two masts ) and the Ameralik span in Greenland ().

The Trondheimsfjord ( or Trondheimsfjorden ), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third longest fjord at long.

The longest word in Norwegian, that is a real word in ordinary use, is menneskerettighetsorganisasjonene ( 33 letters ).

Running for approximately 729 km, it is the Norwegian railway system's longest line, and the only one in Norway to cross the Arctic Circle.