Sentence examples for increase prison terms from inspiring English sources

Hogan, who also lost a family member to overdose, last week said he would introduce legislation to limit prescriptions for pain medications to a seven-day supply, with limited exceptions, and increase prison terms for drug dealers convicted of opioid sales that result in lethal overdoses.

It also increases prison terms for sex offenders and requires lifetime satellite tracking of rapists and other felony sex criminals after their release from prison.

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Internet provisions of the law, which also includes increased prison terms for sex trafficking.

Legal experts say the increased prison terms are in part a result of federal sentencing guidelines passed in 1987 that link the length of a sentence to the dollar amount involved in the fraud.

In fact, a mountain of research shows that increases in prison terms have done nothing to deter crime.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil, Aug. 24 — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a law that eases the penalty for drug possession but increases minimum prison terms for drug traffickers and introduces specific terms for financiers of drug operations, his office said Thursday.

On Thursday, Australia's parliament voted to increase the prison term to 15 years for anyone convicted of tampering with food, and increased the maximum sentence for faking a food-tampering incident to ten years in prison.

Just this week, on January 13, a Saudi court increased his prison term from 10 to 15 years after he refused to show remorse or recognize the court that handed down his original 10-year term for sedition.

As the number grew, Congress increased the recommended prison terms and established a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for anyone convicted of receiving child pornography.

The new measure increases the maximum prison terms for assaulting a federal judge and includes new criminal penalties for making public personal information, such as addresses, to threaten or harm judges and their families.

So tough that over the last four decades sentences were dramatically increased and long prison terms required for hundreds of crimes; discretion was removed from judges; "second-" or "three-strike" laws were mandated, so that decades or life in prison had to be served for second or third convictions, even non-violent ones.