Sentences with phrase «instead of a prison sentence»

In Germany, the Criminal Code dealing with offenders with mental illness provides that hospitalisation should be imposed before or instead of a prison sentence.

Not exact matches

They avoided prison on Friday and instead were each sentenced to 500 hours of community service.

Manning, who served seven years in prison for violating the Espionage Act before her sentence was commuted by President Obama in 2017, says she has a tendency to look forward instead of backward.

If I were imprisoned for some period of time (say three months) and, during those three months, the law no longer dictated the same punishment (say a fine or mandated rehab etc. instead) would I still face the same prison sentence?

TRIBECA — The terrorist truck driver accused of ruthlessly running down eight people in the worst attack in New York City since 9/11 should not be sentenced to die but instead «rot in prison,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday, hours after the President Trump called for capital punishment in the case.

Both de Blasio and Bratton criticized Nunez's decision to enroll Howard in a drug program instead of sentencing him to prison.

But what if instead of feeling like a castle, your home felt more like a prison with your mortgage as a life sentence?

These images of Toro and Kuro place them in the Freedom Wars universe and instead of showing us how long they have left on their prison sentence above their heads we see the words» 15th Anniversary».

In California, for a first strike, you may have to serve 85 % of your prison sentence (instead of the normal 50 %).

Moreover, and perhaps even more disturbing, neither the district court or the Eighth Circuit panel explained why they view as «sufficient but not greater than necessary» for Otterson a prison sentence of 235 months (at the top of the applicable guideline range), instead of a sentence of, say, 188 months (at the bottom of the range).

Probation is a sentence imposed instead of prison and is usually subject to terms and conditions designed to make the offender a law - abiding citizen.

The program has now been expanded to the Malmsbury Youth Justice Precinct, set up under Victoria's unique dual track system to allow adult courts to sentence young offenders aged 18 - 20 to serve custodial sentences in youth detention instead of adult prison.

The fact that consumers did not lose any money from your stupidity, and sentenced you to 1 year in prison and fined your company $ 100,000 instead of $ 200,000.