Sentence examples for courts of correction from inspiring English sources

For criminal cases there are tribunaux correctionnels ("courts of correction") and tribunaux de police, or "police courts," which try minor offenses.

Civil-law countries traditionally have used all three categories, corresponding to three types of tribunals: police courts (tribunaux de police), which determine guilt in cases of minor penalties; courts of correction (tribunaux correctionnels), requiring judges but no jury, which try all other cases not involving serious bodily harm; and full courts with a jury in other crimes.

This data comes directly from the administrative offices of courts, departments of public safety, departments of correction, etc.

But on Tuesday, the department sent the court a list of corrections to its documents in the Florida lawsuit, filed by the family of Robert Stevens, a tabloid photo editor and one of five people killed in the anthrax attacks.

We were stonewalled, we went to court, and a federal appeals court ordered the department of corrections to turn that information over to us [but] the US supreme court vacated that order," Baich said.

The duration of this stage is determined by the effectiveness of the abovementioned methods of correction and also depends upon the duration of the terms appointed by the court.

The court, he said, "declines the city's invitation to take a leap of faith" that its plan of correction is now working.

imposed measures of correction.

Martin F. Horn Commissioner of Correction and Probation New York, Jan . 26 , 2007

Duren Banks Contributor Duren Banks is the director of the Courts and Corrections Program in the Center for Justice, Safety, and Resilience at RTI International and a co-author of Future-Proofing Justice.

Duren Banks is the director of the Courts and Corrections Program in the Center for Justice, Safety, and Resilience at RTI International and a co-author of Future-Proofing Justice.