Sentence examples for serving of sentences from inspiring English sources

It should not solely consider the main strands of the process and the serving of sentences, but should be extended to cover the substantive rules, the politics of defining offences and to the criteria for setting sentences.

Most of those released were serving sentences of five years or less.

The first phase of the exchange, which took place in October, involved hundreds of Palestinians serving life sentences, many of them Hamas members convicted of killing Israelis.

Many of the prisoners here are serving sentences of less than a year for parole violations.

Almost half of all convicts are now serving sentences of ten years or more, compared with under 2% in 1995.

The other seven are serving sentences of between 20 years and life, after some had death sentences revoked on appeal.

Two inmates are serving sentences of 10 and 12 years for the killing.

Many are serving sentences of up to 65 years for peaceful political activities.

John Oley and Percy Geary are serving sentences of seventy-seven yeach each in Alcatraz.

The smaller facility holds convicts serving sentences of up to six years.

Generally, people sent to jail are awaiting trial or serving sentences of a year or less.