Unless some more dramatic steps are taken to implement sweeping sentencing reforms, American prisons are likely to remain a source of images of cruelty, degrading treatment and torture for decades to come.
The former head of Iran's judiciary made several recommendations to judges not to impose or implement stoning sentences, but all have been ignored.
In order to identify descriptors of interest in sentences and cluster sentences with identical descriptors, we implemented a sentence splitting algorithm on a collection of PubMed 37 abstracts annotated with at least one of the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms: arsenic or arsenicals.
Bailes said that while South Australia should be praised for not implementing mandatory sentencing, it needed to reform its remand system.
It also resulted in a disproportionately high number of minorities in prison, by implementing harsher sentences for crack than for cocaine, and dramatically increased the amount of non-violent offenders behind bars.
In the mid-1990s, we provided financial incentives to states to build correctional facilities and to implement "truth-in-sentencing," "mandatory minimums" and other policies that greatly increased the length of sentences of juveniles convicted in criminal court.
Belarus, which has not abolished the death penalty, did not implement any death sentences, making Europe and central Asia an execution-free zone last year.
"The decision has been taken to implement the death sentence against the Iraqi convict and others," a Jordanian security source told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights wrote in November 2015 that "given the doubts that have been raised about the fairness of trials conducted before the Tribunal, the Government of Bangladesh should not implement death penalty sentences".
The Tories did not just implement mandatory and harsher sentences, observes Christine Latimer, executive director of the John Howard Society of Canada, a prison reform advocacy organization.
