Reducing prison sentences would send the wrong signals to criminals.

减刑会向犯罪分子发出错误的信号。

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If that hard, mean old man wants us to pay back the money now, they'll send us to prison!

如果那个刻薄吝啬的人想让我们现在立刻还钱的话，他们就会把我们送到拘留所！

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The brothers can't be on the run forever and we certainly can't send them back to prison.

兄弟俩不可能永远逃亡，而且我们肯定也不能把他们送回到监狱。

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That's worrying because a single print found at a crime scene can be enough to send someone to prison for life.

BBC: By Panorama reporter Shelley Jofre

At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Doherty told Kandra that he had no other option but to send him to prison.

BBC: Jiri Kandra jailed for assault on woman in Glasgow

Some magistrates' courts in England and Wales are four times more likely to send offenders to prison than others, a penal reform charity has said.

BBC: Prison sentence 'disparity' warning