Sentence examples for get offenders from inspiring English sources

In the first place, they would appoint officials who understood, as they did, that the important thing about law enforcement and criminal justice was to get offenders off the streets and behind bars.

Making Prisons Work talks of making pre-apprenticeship training a routine offer, preparing offenders for such training placements on release, alongside skills training for work available in prison as Clarke's aim to get offenders working a 40-hour week becomes a reality.

While there are some resettlement programs that aim to get offenders employed after release, Joe Black pointed out that those existing schemes often flop just as badly as the worthless, vastly underpaid jobs on the inside that Ben Gunn talked about.

The first is that the politically driven insistence on making community sentences highly punitive may also make them less effective at getting offenders to confront and root out the causes of their offending.

The cameras, which included 76 units either mounted near the shoulder or operated from vans, were adept at snapping speeders as they whizzed past sensors, but getting offenders to pay after the tickets were mailed to them was another matter.

It was this inconsistency that led Judge Steven Alm to set up Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement program (Hope), which has proven to be a highly effective means of reducing recidivism and getting offenders off drugs.

Mr Grayling told the Today programme's John Humphrys that "this is an important part of getting offenders back on the straight and narrow".

"Our work shows that when restorative justice is planned around the victim's wishes, it helps them move on with their lives, and can reduce crime by getting offenders to appreciate the impact of their actions on others".

Ten states, including Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana and Nevada, have cut the number of offenses that get youthful offenders automatically transferred to adult courts.

The aim is to get the offenders to focus on you, not each other.

First offenders get a warning; repeat offenders could spend six months in jail.