I just heard on the TV that someone got life in prison plus 47 years. I never understood this. Life in prison is life in prison so what does this mean when they get additional time on top of life in prison?
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The thing is that life in prison does *not* mean they necessarily spend the *rest* of their life in prison. In some cases the sentence is overturned, in other cases the ‘life’ sentence is actually a set number of years.
In any case, it’s important that each charge is represented. Some times sentences can be run concurrent (meaning that if they are doing 10 years + 15 years + 5 months they only do 15 years, because that covers the 10 years and the 5 months *concurrent*) or consecutively (meaning one after the other – the above example would result in them serving 25 years and 5 months) or a mix… but each one is still metered out so there is no confusion.
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