Sentence examples for determinate sentence from inspiring English sources
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.
We have far too many prisoners serving life sentences when a long determinate sentence would suffice.
On a blackboard, Carrie Tuterow wrote down the options: death, life without parole and a determinate sentence.
The IPP sentence is due to be replaced by a new "extended determinate sentence" later this year.
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.
Moving to determinate sentencing requires adjusting sentences for most if not all crimes.
Instead of setting very long maximum sentences that almost no one serves out, determinate sentencing sets shorter terms that convicts actually serve.
In the 1960s and 1970s, California was a model for its success in rehabilitating criminals.But in 1976 California decided to switch from "indeterminate" to "determinate" sentencing.
These states turned instead to "determinate" sentencing schemes, in which the sentences handed down in court dictate exactly when an inmate will go home, and how long he or she will be supervised afterward.
Indeterminate sentences, or "imprisonment for public protection", which denies prisoners the automatic right of release after serving their minimum tariff, will be reviewed, with the goal of replacing it with longer, determinate sentences.
