To obtain the workforce needed for Treblinka I, civilians were sent to the camp en masse for various real or imagined offences, sentenced to hard labour by the Gestapo office in Sokołów, which was headed by Gramms himself.
The doctrine of proportionality between offence and sentence in chapter 20 echoes through the centuries too.
"There is something wrong with the system when a young Aboriginal man, who was recently married and whose wife is pregnant with their first child, who is convicted for the first time of a non-violent offence and sentenced to less than four months' imprisonment, ends up in supermax," she said.
New crime laws have increased the penalties for the worst offences, causing sentence inflation across the board.Putting a lid on the prison population will mean restraining sentences.
Because judges tend to have a strong sense of the relative seriousness of offences, and sentence according to this framework, the act had the effect of raising penalties all round.
By 12 he was known to police and at 16 he was convicted of a serious offence and sentenced to three years in a prison for 15 to 17-year-olds.
The judge regularly orders offenders to attend an environmental night school he has created; makes community service directly relate to the offence (eg sentencing waste dumpers to work in a recycling plant, illegal foresters to plant trees, wildlife poachers to work for wildlife recovery groups); and provides community education through billboards on buses and environmental comic books.
We call on the government to undertake a full-scale review of aggravated offences and sentencing provision".
His brother Basharat, 39, was jailed for 25 years and the third brother, Bannaras, 36, who pleaded guilty to 10 offences, was sentenced to 19 years.
The changes include adding a retrospective element to the legislation, which would apply as far back as 10 years for people who have been charged with serious offences and sentenced to more than 10 years in jail.
