Sentence examples for strict sentencing from inspiring English sources

In this, strict sentencing guidelines have a checkered track record.

We do have a crime problem, and most South Africans do support strict sentencing.

The bill is also at odds with some recent efforts in the states to roll back strict sentencing laws.

The federal system alone holds 219,000 inmates, 40 percent above its capacity, thanks to strict sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum sentences.

It also comes when many states, faced with budget deficits, have passed new, less strict sentencing laws in an attempt to reduce the number of inmates.

Laurie Quick, Ms. Shook's sister, said her family did not know about the state's strict sentencing guidelines until Ms. Shook, now 49, was arrested.

Strict sentences did not make a shambles of his life because he had never faced them.

During the trial, Mr. Capone's efforts to avoid a strict sentence were thwarted by Judge James H. Wilkerson, who refused to offer a lenient sentence in exchange for a guilty plea.

Prosecutors have resisted attempts to change the system, contending that the strict sentences deter crime and induce suspects to cooperate because the penalties provide the police and prosecutors with so much leverage.

The two sides disagree on how much discretion a judge should have to send people to drug treatment, and on how to release some people currently in jail because of the strict sentences.

The governor said the initiative, available to district attorneys, was not a substitute for his efforts to revise the state's Rockefeller-era drug laws, which require strict sentences for minor drug offenses.