Non-custodial community sentences have yet to prove their worth; the rate of recidivism seems disappointingly close to that of people who serve prison terms.

没有人监管的社会服务令，没有体现出它们的价值；令人失望的是，累犯的概率似乎与那些坐过牢的人有关。

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Instead, he proposes a special drugs court which would give non-violent offenders non-custodial sentences and counselling.

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And she describes the approaches of those few places, such as New Zealand and Quebec, which have shown that alternatives to prison can be made to work: non-custodial sentences, recompense to victims and reconciliation.

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The government has also been trying to cut reoffending with policies such as non-custodial community sentences and a presumption against jail terms of less than three months.

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