When a prisoner is sentenced to spend the rest of their life in prison. A very useless sentence, because once a prisoner gets it, they might as well have the death penalty. Either way they're going to die in prison. There are three types of life sentences.
Life With Parole:
When the prisoner gets sentenced to life, but is eligible for parole release after a certain number of years (usually 25 years). This is the most common sentence, as it ensures the prisoner will have an incentive to behave in prison, and it allows them back into society on strict monitoring. It's not a guarantee, to earn parole, you must behave very well in prison and show that you're worthy of being released.
Life Without Parole:
Life Imprisonment with no parole eligibility. If you get this, you're spending the rest of your days behind bars no matter what, unless you get the governor of your state to grant you clemency. This is hard to do, and the fact that you're likely a murderer isn't going to earn you much sympathy. But, if you truly can convince the governor you've changed, it might be worth a shot.
Practical Life Sentence
Any sentence that is longer than the prisoner will likely live. Generally, sentences higher than 75 years in prison fit this category, as even a young adult likely won't live to see their release date. These are handed out usually when a person has many crimes stacked against them, with no single one worthy of a life sentence, but adding up to like 100 years.
Life With Parole:
When the prisoner gets sentenced to life, but is eligible for parole release after a certain number of years (usually 25 years). This is the most common sentence, as it ensures the prisoner will have an incentive to behave in prison, and it allows them back into society on strict monitoring. It's not a guarantee, to earn parole, you must behave very well in prison and show that you're worthy of being released.
Life Without Parole:
Life Imprisonment with no parole eligibility. If you get this, you're spending the rest of your days behind bars no matter what, unless you get the governor of your state to grant you clemency. This is hard to do, and the fact that you're likely a murderer isn't going to earn you much sympathy. But, if you truly can convince the governor you've changed, it might be worth a shot.
Practical Life Sentence
Any sentence that is longer than the prisoner will likely live. Generally, sentences higher than 75 years in prison fit this category, as even a young adult likely won't live to see their release date. These are handed out usually when a person has many crimes stacked against them, with no single one worthy of a life sentence, but adding up to like 100 years.
Two US states have Abolished Life Imprisonment.
Alaska, which still hands out the practical life sentence of 99 years in prison
Connecticut, which has lowered its maximum prison term from life to 25 years.
Also, some states have abolished life without parole, but still hand out life sentences with parole eligibility. These are:
Rhode Island
New York
Illinois
Washington
Alaska, which still hands out the practical life sentence of 99 years in prison
Connecticut, which has lowered its maximum prison term from life to 25 years.
Also, some states have abolished life without parole, but still hand out life sentences with parole eligibility. These are:
Rhode Island
New York
Illinois
Washington
by Xxxxxxxxfanboyxxxxxxxxxx June 10, 2020
Get the Life Imprisonmentmug. (The leveled up and/or thrive version of "survival artist")
Someone who does life as an artist / in a creative way.
(The life artist is metaphorically speaking:) Like a cook would get delivered some ingedrients, and then go from there, for making a dish. The life artist will take the ingedrients gotten from life, maybe go for some other ingedrients, and then make something the artists likes out of it.
It can be limited to, but in it's most pure & real form it's not limited to a particular (known by most ppl) art form and it's more of a way of doing throughout life.
Not to be confused with "toxic positivity".
Though a life artist can focus more on that what they want, then on what is not wanted.
Life art is more about that there are more then one way to look at & go at things, in life.
Life artists can totally 'flip a (provided) script'.
Soulgasms might also be known to a life artist; because of how they can experience life.
An example is in Louis Armstrongs 'What a Wonderful World (Original Spoken Intro Version)'.
Someone who does life as an artist / in a creative way.
(The life artist is metaphorically speaking:) Like a cook would get delivered some ingedrients, and then go from there, for making a dish. The life artist will take the ingedrients gotten from life, maybe go for some other ingedrients, and then make something the artists likes out of it.
It can be limited to, but in it's most pure & real form it's not limited to a particular (known by most ppl) art form and it's more of a way of doing throughout life.
Not to be confused with "toxic positivity".
Though a life artist can focus more on that what they want, then on what is not wanted.
Life art is more about that there are more then one way to look at & go at things, in life.
Life artists can totally 'flip a (provided) script'.
Soulgasms might also be known to a life artist; because of how they can experience life.
An example is in Louis Armstrongs 'What a Wonderful World (Original Spoken Intro Version)'.
Woman: "When I made clear to him that I wasn't interested, he hissed in my ear, looking at me all evil: 'do you want to play this the hard way?!'
I said to him : 'There is no game' 🤷🏻 ♀️"
Other woman: "🙈 .. You are such a life artist"
I said to him : 'There is no game' 🤷🏻 ♀️"
Other woman: "🙈 .. You are such a life artist"
by Aqua-Phoenix July 8, 2022
Get the Life artistmug. A person who leeches off others and is without a job or doesn't have the means to support himself and shows no remorse for his/her actions. Hence enjoying his/her ToadLife
by Todd_N April 11, 2019
Get the toad lifemug. The “weight” you gain when you stop running away from responsibilities and commitment. E.g. mortgage, kids
Brad gained a lot of extra pounds of life fat in the shape of a 3 bedroom semi-detached in the suburbs
by GooseWillis April 20, 2019
Get the Life fatmug. by Potato-Human, Because Life. July 30, 2016
Get the Because Lifemug. 1. Going through life in a haphazard way; without defined meaning or purpose.
2. Your life is not making sense to anyone but you.
3. You are just drifting through life in a somewhat carefree, rambling like, present and connected way.
4. You are totally random in your life.
5. Going with the flow of things through life.
2. Your life is not making sense to anyone but you.
3. You are just drifting through life in a somewhat carefree, rambling like, present and connected way.
4. You are totally random in your life.
5. Going with the flow of things through life.
I feel good about my babble-life. It's carefree and will lead me somewhere, some day.
You may not understand my babble-life but I do. My life makes perfect sense to me.
I'm just totally going with the flow in my babble-life.
You may not understand my babble-life but I do. My life makes perfect sense to me.
I'm just totally going with the flow in my babble-life.
by Egrant December 9, 2013
Get the babble-lifemug. It means that life working a 9-5 job in an office cubicle, hence the term "cube" derived from cubicle.
A: Dude, my back hurts from sitting all day at work.
D: Yeah, that cube life.
Some Millennial: I'm not with that cube life. / I ain't about that cube life.
Senior undergrad: I'm not ready for that cube life yet. I want to travel and see the world.
A veteran (senior office worker) in that cube life: The cube life can be soul-crushing and soon you will just be zombies tip tapping on your keyboard.
D: Yeah, that cube life.
Some Millennial: I'm not with that cube life. / I ain't about that cube life.
Senior undergrad: I'm not ready for that cube life yet. I want to travel and see the world.
A veteran (senior office worker) in that cube life: The cube life can be soul-crushing and soon you will just be zombies tip tapping on your keyboard.
by nomnombeast December 13, 2014
Get the cube lifemug.