Andrew Neilson, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, argued that the plans represented "an admission of the abject failure of short-term prison sentences" and that the government should make greater use of community sentences.
There is no doubt that long prison sentences make the general public feel good over the short term, but the costs of incarceration go on for the long term.
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Indeed, the pair show that any set of self-referential sentences that assert complete truth or falsity about one another are exactly half-true. (Though other solutions are possible as well.) Other fractional truth-values arise when the sentences themselves make fuzzy assertions.
This is the reason we can often read sentences in which the words have all their vowels missing and make sense of them.
He said the key objective was to make sure offenders complied with their sentences.
He said the government should make parole reviews happen quickly for prisoners serving IPP sentences.
Orlean writes sentences that make you ache with longing for moments in the past, those by which each person individually defines happiness, whether it be the comforts of a beloved pet or the joy of reading a great book like this one.
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Correcting typos, making sure sentences are whole, perhaps rewriting the occasional line to make it flow.
Now, under the guidelines, different prosecutors make decisions that predictably lead to very different sentences for similar defendants' similar crimes.
Other than a few sentences at the last earnings call, he has yet to make a public statement or speech about Google or his planned strategy.
He said it was for the NI Assembly to make or comment on policy or legislation to set or increase maximum sentences.
Justice minister Chris Grayling has asked the Sentencing Council to review guidelines which make it difficult for judges to give out tougher sentences.
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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed the changes would not apply retrospectively to current prisoners, but Mr Clarke told the BBC he would consult on rule changes that could make it easier for prisoners currently serving indeterminate sentences to be released.
Some of the changes in the revised plan make sense, including more sparing use of remand, more frequent resort to well-enforced community sentences and more opportunities for paid work in prison.
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