"sentence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Consequently there are no cases in our books which show what the appropriate determinate sentence is specifically for that offence.
- Paul Embry was sentenced to a six year determinate sentence for burglary.
- Cases sentenced under the new law would serve determinate sentences with limited reduction for good time (about 15%).
- When granting a determinate sentence the court takes into account the crime, the prisoner's behaviour in prison, public safety and the chance of rehabilitation.
- He explained: We are going to be replacing a failed system that doesn't work, [which] the public don't understand, with tough, determinate sentences.
- Under guideliness set by Congress, Federal prisoners also serve determinate sentences without parole.
- The result is a "determinate" sentence, known to all from the start: no parole, and a sharply circumscribed amount of time off for good behavior.
- A 1984 law called for replacement of that system with "determinate" sentences, to be served in full with no chance for parole.
- All the men on determinate sentences at Maidstone are eligible for parole, theoretically when one third of their sentence has been served.
- Offenders with determinate sentences occupy about 20% of the slots at high restriction facilities.
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