Sentence examples for sentencing alternatives from inspiring English sources

Third was discomfort among some trial court judges with the restricted sentencing discretion in drug laws enacted during this same period, creating incentives for experimentation with sentencing alternatives.

One is the growth of women's community centres, part-funded (until next year at least) by central government, which offer sentencing alternatives, access to drug treatment and rehabilitation courses and try to divert women at risk of offending.

Also, sentencing alternatives under consideration could put some offenders on probation with electronic monitoring who would otherwise be incarcerated.

After receiving the report and the recommendations, the court shall proceed finally to sentence the defendant in accordance with the sentencing alternatives and procedures available under this chapter.

Where there is not 100percentt certainty of such guilt, the penal code needs to provide for harsh sentencing alternatives to capital punishment.

In the past, Broadman's innovative sentencing alternatives have come in a variety of forms.

Governor Bush said today that he was concerned that state law offered no sentencing alternative for one so young.

Perez, who proposed the latest option, said electronic surveillance is an attractive sentencing alternative because it does not contribute to prison crowding.

Few judges have spoken out against their colleagues for excusing crime on the grounds of poverty or some other social disadvantage, or for sentencing empty alternatives to material punishments.

The pilot program, Conviction and Sentence Alternatives, or CASA, allows select federal defendants throughout Southern California an opportunity to tackle whatever it was — drug addiction, mental illness or just plain bad decision-making — that may have led them to commit a crime, and to stay out of the criminal-justice system.

Still, his article does report one case where a commanding general recently allowed alternative sentencing similar to what Major Seamone has prescribed.