Sentence examples for poor offenders from inspiring English sources

If, however, I am fined as punishment for a crime, that fine is intended to be burdensome: that is why many sentencing authorities aim to proportion fines to the offender's means, to ensure that both rich and poor offenders are burdened fairly and proportionately; and that is what is wrong with the idea that one might take out insurance to cover the cost of fines.

As a justice of the peace in Buckinghamshire, it was rumoured that he would sometimes feel so sorry for some poor offender that he would send him the cash to pay his fine in an anonymous envelope.

The treatment experiment failed because of inconsistent screening of offenders, poor retention, the absence of effective sanctions and inefficient after care.

It undermined confidence in the fairness of the justice system by singling out poor and minority offenders while largely exempting the white and wealthy.

However, past studies have found poor identification of offenders with mental illness for treatment services.

Today, it is largely poor people and minority offenders who are imprisoned for marijuana offenses.

"Private providers play an important role in managing offenders, but poor performance is not tolerated," he said.

But they are far from being the only offenders: most poor countries, too, are keen to palm the responsibility for curbing global warming off on rich ones, and to continue to grow and pollute as much as they like.The problem, of course, is that if everyone is counting on others to act, no one will, and the consequences could be much worse than if everyone had simply done their bit to begin with.

The daughter of a Unitarian minister, she founded a ragged school and reformatories, bringing previously unavailable educational opportunities to poor children and young offenders in Bristol.

Stories have repeatedly emerged this year over the poor treatment of transgendered offenders within prisons both in the UK and the US.

"But the real problem is that about 70% of witnesses have such a poor recall of the offender's face that a traditional composite cannot be constructed in the first place," he says.