Sentence examples for offender sentences from inspiring English sources

Most career offender sentences are based on a sentencing range that is tied to the "statutory maximum" for the crime, not the Drug Quantity Table.

However, in practice, as explained below, there are some exceptions, such as in the case of career offender sentences and certain mandatory minimum cases.

Every sex offender sentenced to 30 months or more is currently automatically placed on the register for life.

I was a nonviolent, first-time drug offender sentenced to two 15-years-to-life sentences under the Rockefeller drug laws of New York State.

Capital punishment, also called death penalty, execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense.

He could pardon Sharanda Purlette Jones, a mother and first-time offender sentenced to die in prison for conspiracy to sell crack purely on the testimony of others, with no physical evidence tying her to the conspiracy.

Handing over custody funding totalling around £400m to local authorities then charging them for every local offender sentenced to less than 24 months would act as an incentive to improve crime prevention, the report said.

This would reduce the length of time during which an offender sentenced to less than four years in jail would have to disclose their convictions.

But the big increase is due to changes in sentencing: many petty criminals who once would have been fined are now jailed, and serious offenders' sentences are 20% longer than they were in 1995.

The Urban Institute pointed out that even modest changes to violent offenders' sentences would result in a major decrease in the prison population.

In September 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law allowing juvenile offenders sentenced to life without parole to petition for a resentencing.