Sentence examples for sentencing program from inspiring English sources

He served a little less than five years with good behavior under California's determinate sentencing program, under which almost all prisoners receive parole, calculated in advance.

Under the plea deal, Mr. Slater agreed to enroll in an alternative sentencing program that would require him to undergo mental health counseling and substance abuse treatment for the next year.

Mr. Slater's lawyer, Daniel J. Horwitz, and Queens prosecutors indicated that they had been discussing a plea deal in which Mr. Slater would be placed in an alternative sentencing program for defendants with mental health or alcohol abuse problems.

But the court gave him a second chance because his case had not been properly reviewed for inclusion in a new alternative sentencing program, which the city started in February 2007.

The class is taught through Changing Lives Through Literature, an alternative sentencing program that allows felons and other offenders to choose between going to jail or joining a book club.

"I want to thank you for the extraordinary service you performed for me in my sentencing program," Mr. Ravenel writes in a testimonial on the Web site of the National Center on Institutional Alternatives.

Both liberals and conservatives are increasingly searching for alternative sentencing programs, like treatment or monitoring, he said.

Gov. Donald Siegelman said the state might have to build a new prison and consider alternative sentencing programs to ease a prison overcrowding crisis.

In alternative sentencing programs, though, books provide a more literal alternative to incarceration; and the authorities' job is not to censor books, but to supply them.

Ms. Preckwinkle said that in 2009, judges placed fewer than 100 people awaiting trial on electronic monitoring, compared with about 865 now, not including those on house arrest through alternative sentencing programs.

Critics nonetheless objected to rehabilitation and sentencing programs that gave significant discretion to the prison administrator, who could decide to release or further detain an offender depending on his assessment of the offender's progress (which could itself be vaguely defined).