"alternative" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In a separate report, he and two other law professors have called for broader use of alternative sentences, including probation.
- Similarly, the circumstances under which people can be sentenced to such alternative sentences vary from state to state.
- Working with defense attorneys, these programs devise alternative sentences for more than 16,000 indigent defendants a year.
- The courts must therefore "seriously consider" alternative sentences, like community service, as viable alternatives to direct imprisonment.
- Prosecutors could block the alternative sentences if they believed the felons deserved time in prison instead.
- But others argue alternative sentences can be effective.
- The only alternative sentence, consequently, was life without parole.
- A wider range of alternative sentences replacing custodial sentences should be considered.
- Here, it is recommended once again that for the most part alternative sentences should be chosen over imprisonment.
- Also some courts allow a contribution to the 'poor box' as an alternative sentence.
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