Sentence examples for flexible sentencing from inspiring English sources

"UNICEF is working with the Justice Ministry to ensure expeditious handling of juvenile cases and flexible sentencing alternatives where appropriate," said Veneman.

In penal terms, 'life' (as we all know) actually means long, but flexible, sentences, which reflect the relative gravity of serious crimes and allow sensible decisions about when the offender should be returned to society.

But California led a sweeping national change in 1977 when it became the first state to take away the power of the parole board and eliminated flexible sentences, replacing them with fixed terms determined in advance by a judge.

After spending weeks struggling with the rigours of the German language's far less flexible sentence structures to achieve the endless succession of "pull back and reveals" that constitute much English language humour, the idea of our comedic superiority soon begins to fade.

At that time, most inmates across the nation served flexible sentences, say 5 to 10 years, and parole boards appointed by governors had discretion in determining when prisoners were ready for release, usually when they could show they had rehabilitated themselves or had a job or family waiting for them.

California Led the Way Although law enforcement experts say that the large number of inmates being returned to prisons is a nationwide phenomenon, nowhere is it more striking than in California, the state with the largest prison population and the first state to abolish flexible sentences, which historically led to early release for good behavior.

The Flexible Sentences feature strengthens Facebook's value proposition to developers.

The flexible sentences that were once the rule did not mean rehabilitation, they meant discrimination.

The Flexible Sentences configuration tool provides a list of story types most frequently shared by a developer's users so they know which stories they might want to modify.

But with new Flexible Sentences, apps can post stories like "Tom tracked Muse to get concert alerts via Songkick.com" that attract more downloads, are less awkward, and make the Facebook news feed richer.

Taking this view calls into question the opinion of many criminologists that prison was better when its inmates served flexible sentences and were released only when a parole board thought they were rehabilitated.