Sentence examples for sentencing regime from inspiring English sources

KEN CLARKE's plan to liberalise Britain's sentencing regime, which was first mooted soon after the coalition government was formed, was unveiled yesterday.

Ultimately, it will be easier for Clarke to get his plans for 40-hour working weeks in prison and tougher community penalties through the Commons, but he may have to rely on Labour votes to get his more lenient sentencing regime on to the statute books.

Mr House said progress was being made on knife crime, with courts in Scotland discharging the toughest knife crime sentencing regime in the UK.

"Where is the equality in the current sentencing regime?

Just punishment should strive to say that American justice is blind to colour and wealth.Yet the current sentencing regime for company executives is troubling.

It would also replace the Vlad laws with a sentencing regime that would extend jail time for serious organised crime offences.

So far, the federal guidelines have influenced state sentencing regimes mostly as a negative model and a distraction.

Even among lifers there are multiple categories, reflecting a proliferation of sentencing regimes that have changed over time.

As crime figures continue to fall – and did so still during the recent recession – draconian sentencing regimes introduced in the 1980s and 1990s are starting to look anachronistic.

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

Specific authority to make rules for the limitation of capital punishment contributes more towards principled and uniform military sentencing regimes than does case by case intervention, and it provides greater opportunity for congressional oversight and revision.