Sentence examples for a minor offender from inspiring English sources

Mr. Phillips responded that judges should defer to jail personnel and "respect their judgment that you can't make a distinction based on that specific individual," on "whether somebody is a minor offender or a major offender".

Obviously, the only people hurt by this denial of benefits are the poor, which usually means a minor offender who is an addict and out of jail trying to make it.

While OWSLA head Skrillex is ostensibly responsible for his label's comp cover, he's a minor offender of women's rights compared to his Jack Ü bandmate and BFF Diplo.

Essentially, the story shows that the relationships between prisoners turn a relatively minor offender into a major one and foster, even encourage, a wide variety of violent, corrupt, and criminal behavior.

He said that it was good to have an American President who knew that important things were happening outside America; that global warming was a huge problem, and that France, though a relatively minor offender, had to be a leader in setting it right.

But the I Sea app is a relatively minor offender.

We must distinguish between the criminal and the minor offender in the same way that we do for our citizens.

Except for the pardon of a handful of minor offenders (including one convicted of "coin mutilation"), President Obama has simply failed to use clemency.

But of the nearly 400,000 people ICE deports each year, only a fraction are dangerous criminals; a large proportion are minor offenders or have no records.

That money could be better spent on treatment and education that would give minor offenders a chance to become productive citizens.

But while he talks intelligently about people who have committed crimes serious enough to warrant imprisonment, he is presiding over a system for punishing minor offenders that is so harsh, arbitrary and unfair that it has provoked almost unanimous opposition from the people whose responsibility it is to decide what constitutes fair punishment for a minor offences – the magistrates.