Sentence examples for incarceration term from inspiring English sources

With the emergence of therapeutic courts, the legal system was transformed as a setting in which defendants can leave their court experiences with more than an incarceration term and bring additional societal benefits.

Going forward, 40,000 people convicted of these offenses will avoid excessive incarceration terms.

Both in terms of incarceration, and in terms of our bloated national defence budget.

The non-completing group (N = 34; 12.2% of all enrolled) included four participants who failed to show for an exit interview, 11 who had participation suspended for short term incarceration (and finished participation after release).

Their proliferation is "very much a result of mass incarceration and long-term sentencing," she added.

Drug courts provide nonviolent substance-abusing adults with the sanctions and services necessary to change their behaviour and avoid long-term incarceration.

Ms. Serwer said many prisoners were kept for months in the small jails, which were not built for long-term incarceration.

"What was more interesting were the spaces around them and what that said about the nature of long-term incarceration and its relationship to time and space".

Voters would achieve at least two positive things by approving Proposition 66: fairer sentences, and big savings off the state's bloated bill for the long-term incarceration of the wrong people.

Legal leverage can take many forms including DTC, probation, alcohol monitoring systems and short-term incarceration, which aim to encourage behavior change in the individual to prevent harm to him/herself and the community (Dentzer 2007).

Finally, based on in-depth life interviews with individuals who served an average 19 years in a correctional institution, Liem and Kunst (2013) theorize that those who experience long-term incarceration may suffer from post-incarceration syndrome, which they likened to post traumatic stress disorder.