Sentence examples for penal operations from inspiring English sources

Between 1970 and 1980, five separate wardens sat at the prison's helm, each offering radically different approaches to penal operations.

At 24, he taught penal procedure at the University of Camerino.

The proposal, which will be spelled out in greater detail in a bill to be introduced in Parliament, would within the next five years give half of all 121 current penal facilities complete autonomy in their budgets and operation, while their performance on such rehabilitation factors as recidivism, literacy and finding employment would be publicly ranked.

In the practical operation of a sentencing or penal system, theories of punishment often come into conflict.

The mastermind of this cunning plot was diamond merchant Joseph Cammi Grizzardrd, who was caught after a sting operation and given seven years' penal servitude; shorter sentences in those days, but harsher regimes.

So much has been justified in these years -- torture, indefinite detention, the Guantanamo penal colony, drone killings, wars, and the use of Special Operations forces as global assassination teams -- by some version of the so-called ticking time bomb scenario.

Mariela told me that her legal team was preparing a brief that proposed specific changes in the penal and civil code; for example, transsexuals who had had sex-change operations would be able to marry and to enjoy the same inheritance and pension rights as heterosexual spouses.

As there is a profitable monetary link between the penal system, which provides the exploited organ donors, and the hospitals, which profit from the operations, there is a financial incentive for the state to execute as many prisoners as possible.

In a union of 27 countries, all with distinct legal and penal cultures, it is not easy to build the trust necessary for this degree of mutual co-operation.

Penal and Penitentiary Comm.

Texas Penal Code Ann.