Rather than attacking the criminal justice system for the offender's non-custodial sentence, Mrs Kent is pleased he was not jailed.

BBC: A victim of crime

For example, English sentence structures focus on agents, and in our criminal-justice system, justice has been done when we've found the transgressor and punished him or her accordingly (rather than finding the victims and restituting appropriately, an alternative approach to justice).

WSJ: Does Language Influence Culture?

The mistaken release of the prisoner, who was serving a 60-year sentence in Indiana for murder, focused attention on an antiquated corner of the criminal justice system that still relies extensively on paper documents instead of computers in moving detainees around and keeping tabs on their court status.

NPR: Mistakenly Freed Killer Captured While Watching TV