Sentence examples for early release program from inspiring English sources

The governor now concedes a "mistake" was made with last fall's early release program.

Eighty-seven guerrillas walked free last week in the last stage of the pact's early release program, under which more than 400 prisoners have been let out.

Mr. Johnson, 23, who stole more than $1.5 million worth of books and rare documents during a summer internship at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 2001, was in an early release program and living with his parents.

In the words of the state statute, no one who receives the life sentence "is eligible for parole, community supervision, or any early release program," including time off for good behavior.

An early release program in Colorado meant to save $19 million has scaled back its ambitions by $14 million after officials found far fewer prisoners than anticipated to be wise release risks.

In Illinois, Gov. Patrick J. Quinn, a Democrat, described as "a big mistake" an early release program that sent some convicts who had committed violent crimes home from prison in a matter of weeks.

Despite the persistence of loafing, the recession is casting its shadow over some of the city's early release programs.

Mr. Bush attributed the decline state's falling crime rate, the lowest since 1973, to a toughening of Florida's crime laws, prison construction and an end to early release programs for violent criminals.

The changes in Michigan have been among the most pronounced, and they provide a glimpse into difficulties in about half the states, which have tinkered with parole, early release programs and sentencing laws or are considering doing so.

Stephen McClean, 30, and Noel McCready, 33, were given life sentences but will be eligible to leave prison this summer under the peace pact's early-release program.

They voted to extend protections for transgender people, to charge in-state college tuition rates to illegal immigrants, to extend an early-release program for prisoners and to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.