Comment: Under our prison system, a one year sentence handed down by the courts will only see the prisoner serving approximately nine (9) months in prison. So a sentence of eighteen years means the prisoner will spend (18 x 9 months = 162 months imprisonment)thirteen and a half years imprisonment. The sentences they were given are to run concurrently, which mean along with the other sentences as opposed to consecutively, meaning that when one sentence is finished the other starts. So in essence they were only sentenced to serve (18)eighteen years which boils down to 13 1/2 years prison time. (I'm not 100% correct at this time but it might be even less than this.) |