Sentence examples for sentencing should be from inspiring English sources

"He said the thousands and thousands of African-Americans that have gone to jail because of mandatory sentencing should be released and the money saved should go for a job-training program.

Much of the hearing, which lasted nearly two and a half hours, was devoted to arguments over which sentencing guidelines, if any, the judge should follow, or whether sentencing should be based on the plea agreement already reached.

Judge Hoffman, who has taught and written about biology and the law, said that in theory, sentencing should be based on the crime, the criminal, the value of deterrence and the possibility of rehabilitation, without need of biological theories that try to explain behavior that, after all, must be rooted in brain processes.

Similarly, you'd be unlikely to find someone to convincingly argue that "crime is crime" and that all sentencing should be equal, regardless of circumstances or mitigating factors.

Such sentences should be abolished.

Longer sentences should be split into two.

Their sentences should be reviewed too.

No sentence should be more than 14 words long.

Mandatory minimum sentences should be scrapped, and judges should judge each case on its merits.

Ministers are, of course, entitled to decide what sentences should be available to the courts.

Therefore, unless it is absolutely impossible, every sentence should be phrased in passive voice.