First offenders will get a warning.
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It was the first time offenders had been sent to jail for this offence.
In other words, nonpunitive offenders are treated as first-time offenders if they get in trouble down the road while nonjudicial offenders are treated like recidivists.
Current sentences often send non-violent, first time offenders to prison for decades, so there is no Act that would benefit society or the person imprisoned for that period of time.
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Prisons are full of non-violent, first time offenders that are worthy of at least a commutation of a few years based on draconian sentencing guidelines that gave them decades in prison.
Agreeing to this demand, the government made stalking and voyeurism bailable for first-time offenders.
Mr. Nath said the cabinet has agreed to tone down this proposal, making these bailable for first-time offenders.
Verizon has said it will first warn repeat offenders by email and voicemail.
However, experts say first-time offenders with no criminal history typically spend much less time in prison than the maximum term.
However, experts say first-time offenders with no criminal history typically spend much less time in prison than the maximum sentence.
Judge Alasdair Darroch decided against a prison term in light of Lord Woolf's guidelines, saying first-time offenders could be dealt with by community sentencing.
And it is pushing for laws requiring all first-time offenders to have ignition locking devices that prevent cars from starting until breath samples are analyzed.
The measure would have ensured fixed penalty notices - which had had little effect in curbing shoplifting - could be used only when dealing with first-time offenders.
However, first-time offenders with no criminal history will typically spend much less time in prison than the maximum sentence, said Mary Fan, a former federal prosecutor who specializes in criminal law and procedure at the University of Washington School of Law.
Certainly, Mays and Richmond, both first-time criminal offenders, expressed their apologies as they cried upon hearing that they were found guilty.
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Deputy Attorney General Steve Wood said Johnson is the first of 16 juvenile offenders serving life sentences in Delaware who will have to be re-sentenced because of that ruling.
So with budgets tight, inmate populations growing and laws that are sending first time non-violent offenders to prison for decades, what should we do?
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In the past, particularly in the music industry, record companies sued both first-time pirates and repeat offenders for inordinate sums, leading to lengthy court battles and unfavorable views of the industry.
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We introduced the first testing and treatment orders for drug offenders.
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First, it will become compulsory for sex offenders to report to the authorities before travelling abroad for even one day - the limit is currently three days.
Introducing his amendment on the first day of report stage on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, crossbencher and QC Lord Pannick insisted the change would not cost anything because the duty would only apply "within the resources made available" by the bill.
But many among them Frank Field, a member of the government when ASBOs were first debated in 1997-98 worried that they fast-tracked relatively mild offenders into the criminal-justice system.
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In 1994, I wrote the Violence Against Women Act, which established several critical new protections: first, it provides law enforcement with new tools to prosecute domestic violence crimes and put offenders behind bars.
Among the few young offenders who are actually punished, the reoffending rate is over 40% after a first prosecution, and climbs thereafter.
Then peers get their teeth into some of the new bills announced in the Queen's Speech - first is the Offender Rehabilitation Bill which deals with the release and post-release supervision of offenders, including the plan for a year's guaranteed supervision.
It would be the first parliamentary sub-committee since one was set up to look at the issue of child sex offenders, in 2006.
While Fritzl might like to say he changed his plea after hearing his daughter's emotional evidence - that for the first time he was able to understand his daughter's feelings - from what I know of similar offenders, I would be extremely sceptical.
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