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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Jeffs will serve his prison terms consecutively and would not be eligible for parole until 2070.

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The new ruling, in a second appeal, means Mr Lim will serve two concurrent 18-month prison terms, and as a result will lose his seat in Parliament.

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Court officials failed to notify the state Department of Corrections that Ebel was supposed to serve two consecutive four-year terms for assaulting a prison guard, so the department let him out early.

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