Sentence examples for limiting sentences from inspiring English sources

Recent trial balloons include limiting sentences to a few months, providing inmates with weekend furloughs or requiring the police to issue written verdicts.

She said the legislation did not account for resource shortfalls in rural and regional WA, which could limit sentencing options, and said WA should emulate the "excellent blueprint" of New South Wales, which stopped using jail time to "cut out" fines in 1996.

The compromise includes a comprehensive set of provisions aimed at lowering mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders and limiting life sentences for certain repeat offenders.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist, hardly a coddler of criminals, warned members of Congress that limiting judicial sentencing power along these lines "would seriously impair the ability of courts to impose just and responsible sentences".

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However, Spanish law effectively limits prison sentences to 30 years, which would have made her eligible for parole in 2008.

Federal law limits the sentences such courts may deliver to three years in jail, a moderate fine or six strokes of the cane.

While it is undeniable that there is value in revenge, the laws that rate civil liberties more highly than convictions and the laws that limit prison sentences are a reflection of the fact that vengeance is seldom the highest priority.

"At the end, I just wasn't convinced that some pretty dangerous people could utilize this to limit their sentences," Rubio told HuffPost on Wednesday.

In a deal with the district attorney that limited their sentences to a maximum of four years in prison, the former council members pleaded no contest to two other counts.

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