In the last quarter-century, those punitive policies have quintupled the prison population, with nonviolent offenders accounting for much of that increase.

They keep talking as if women can be coralled into marriage by appeals to morality and self-sacrifice or punitive social policies.

It's a punitive fiscal policy that will fail totally, which will result in Greece destroyed, and no one getting any of their freakin money back.

America's punitive policies toward Vietnam have done little to advance U.S. interests.

Affordable housing, day care and health insurance will prevent many more abortions than the punitive policies of the Bush administration.

The government's punitive policy should be struck down.

Last week the Senate voted to lift that ban, reversing a punitive policy.

Appropriate punitive and curative policy and administrative measures have to be put in place urgently.

Next week, however, the House Rules Committee can begin the laborious legislative process of changing that punitive policy.

He accused European regimes of ramming punitive policies down the throats of poor African nations.