Sentence examples for punitive sentencing from inspiring English sources

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

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

This would help the state cope with the Brown v. Plata medical and population orders and begin to create a climate of compassion and dignity in which the state might begin to revise its pointlessly punitive sentencing laws.

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.

David Blunkett reacted by abolishing the home secretary's remaining discretion in the 2003 Criminal Justice Act, but at the same time he introduced a more punitive sentencing menu for judges, with life terms of 15, 25 and 30 years.

Senator Charles Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, wrote in an op-ed on Fox News that it was "naïve and unproductive" to focus only on so-called "back-end" reforms like good-time credits, and ignore the punitive sentencing laws that continue to fill the nation's prisons.

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

But public defenders say Dawson's tendency to give punitive sentences to offending juveniles verges on abuse.

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.