Sentence examples for because of sentencing from inspiring English sources

Courts' hands are tied because of sentencing guidelines.

The weather in Park City, Utah has been surprisingly pleasant (which I am sure will change drastically because of the sentence I just wrote).

The four who were convicted of taking part in the shooting came into the hearing on Wednesday facing sentences of at least 35 years because of mandatory sentencing; Mr. Faulcon was facing at least 65 years.

The judge said they would not serve the full sentences because of time served on remand.

The trial judge said they would not serve the full sentences because of time served on remand.

Incarceration rates in the United States have multiplied over the last three decades, in part because of stiffer sentencing rules.

California's 33 prisons, with about 168,000 inmates, many of them locked up because of inflexible sentencing laws passed by voters, are scandalously overcrowded.

"He said the thousands and thousands of African-Americans that have gone to jail because of mandatory sentencing should be released and the money saved should go for a job-training program.

The impending change comes too late for the tens of thousands of low-level, nonviolent drug offenders who wasted away in prison because of mandatory sentencing policies when they should have been given treatment and leniency.

"The reason we saw those increasing numbers every year was because of the sentencing reforms undertaken by so many states," said Allen J. Beck, the chief of corrections statistics for the Justice Department, who compiled the new figures.

However, those penalties could be reduced because of federal sentencing guidelines.