Sentence examples for punitive sentence from inspiring English sources

It was like being given a punitive sentence that never seemed to end.

But to date, no alternative approach shows any signs of supplementing the just deserts sentencing philosophy no matter how preposterous in practice the claim that a given punitive sentence is justly deserved may be in most cases.

According to Amnesty, 42 are still in jail, and every day brings news of fresh trials and increasingly punitive sentences.

Mandatory sentencing, imprisonment for fine defaults, paperless arrest laws, tough bail and parole conditions, and punitive sentencing regimes certainly haven't helped.

Britain's most senior judge has called for punitive sentences – including indeterminate prison terms with no fixed release date – for gun traffickers.

'The government didn't build, rejected less punitive sentencing and ruled out the emergency release of prisoners near the end of their term.

"The case of Joshua Kaluvia is of a great public interest and justice must prevail and seen to be done for perpetrators to be punished with punitive sentences," said Yapu.

Ministers fear a surge in the prison population through more punitive sentencing, although the Ministry of Justice said it could not provide the committee with any accurate modelling of the effect of the change.

It seems increasingly difficult to argue that you can disapprove of an activity without wanting to ban or discourage it, that governments and police forces can abuse powers, and that surveillance, punitive sentencing and excessive detention is a threat to the innocent as well as the guilty.

It takes a while for greater material differences to make the social hierarchy steeper, for status competition and consumerism to increase, for people to feel a greater sense of superiority or inferiority, for prejudices towards those lower on the social ladder to harden, for prisons to fill to overflowing under the impact of more punitive sentencing, and for people to seek ­solace in drugs.

"We know the courts are swamped with cases and handing down hurried and overly punitive sentences [that] will result in many criminal appeals which will act as a further drag on the system," said Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns for the Howard League for Penal Reform.