As for reducing sentences in the first place, the government launched a national scheme last month to persuade states to create more places on community-service schemes.
The report urges that the time has come for a move to fixed sentences for murder as with any other individual crime.
In Bharatpur jail 105 people are in custody for poaching, many serving long sentences for minor offences such as providing food to poachers.
The New York Times has reported that about 9, 700 Americans are serving sentences as adults for crimes they committed as minors.
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The Justice Secretary Ken Clarke recently announced plans to extend mandatory life sentences for many other crimes as part of a plan to do away with indeterminate sentences.
In 1989, a Kentucky high court ruled that the constitution did allow death sentences for defendants as young as 16.
It included a link to an article about U.S. prosecutors seeking what she described as "utterly ridiculous" prison sentences for former UBS bankers who were convicted of scheming to rig municipal-bond deals.
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Offences recorded as hate crimes can receive higher sentences but for that to happen legislation would also need to change.
The new decrees would impose sentences of as much as 10 years for operating illegal mines.
As part of his plea agreement in exchange for four consecutive life sentences, Rudolph told investigators where in western North Carolina he stashed five caches totaling more than 160 pounds of explosives.
The law setting out the three strikes policy also requires courts to impose life sentences on criminals convicted of serious offences such as rape for a second time.
Despite the obstacles, investigators such as Gail Thackeray are pleased to have new state laws that provide tougher sentences for cyberstalkers, who now often end up with little more than a penalty of community service.
Mr Bush added the sentences calling, in effect, for Mr Arafat's removal as recently as last Saturday evening.
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