Sentence examples for a determinate sentence from inspiring English sources

On a blackboard, Carrie Tuterow wrote down the options: death, life without parole and a determinate sentence.

About half the state's inmates, including most drug offenders, now receive what is called a determinate sentence, a fixed period of incarceration with limited opportunity for early release.

Inside man Emir Hysenaj, an Albanian, who filmed inside the depot using a miniature camera, was given a determinate sentence of 20 years.

Raising the threshold to 10 years might mean a person who would merit a determinate sentence of fewer than 15 years would not qualify if he did plead guilty.

Compared with inmates without such disorders, inmates with disorders were likely to be younger, to have a history of psychiatric disorder and substance abuse, to have poorer physical health, to have impaired social support, and to be serving a determinate sentence with no possibility of parole.

In 1976, Brown had signed a "determinate" sentencing law, which reduced the authority of parole boards to decide when an inmate could be released, and prescribed fixed terms for most crimes.

For it is idle to suppose that a hardened criminal weighs up the difference between a life sentence and a long determinate sentence, and decides as a result to go straight.

The government should convert these discredited sentences into an equivalent determinate sentence, with a clear release date, and provide full support to people returning to their communities," he said.

We have far too many prisoners serving life sentences when a long determinate sentence would suffice.

The IPP sentence is due to be replaced by a new "extended determinate sentence" later this year.

It is arguable that this is a step too far, particularly when it is remembered that in deciding what determinate sentence an offender might merit, the fact that he has pleaded guilty counts in his favour.