Sentence examples for punitive sentences from inspiring English sources

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

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

"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.

"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.

To distinguish such abuses both from the legitimate deprivations that are essential to punishment and from the excesses of punitive sentences that embody cruel and inhumane punishments, one must rely on the way the former are connected to (and the latter disconnected from) whatever constitutes the sentence as such and whatever justifies it (Bedau 1972).

This means that, if found guilty, people of colour are likely to face more punitive sentences than if they had admitted guilt.

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

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

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

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.