Top judge calls for less jailing
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The Lord Chief Justice, the most senior judge in England and Wales, urges greater use of community sentences.
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A judge seeks a solution for a 'public nuisance of a major kind' who repeatedly breaks an anti-social behaviour order.
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The judge who presided over the military pretrial hearing for Pfc. Lynndie England has made her recommendation on whether the Army reservist should be court-martialed for abusing Iraqi prisoners.
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GALT, Calif.  - California's prisons are putting a  new emphasis on rehabilitation, but it may take years to reduce  the high level of repeat offenders, the state's top prison  official said on Wednesday.
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Attorneys for John Walker Lindh, who pleaded guilty in July 2002 to a charge of aiding the Taliban, are asking President Bush to reduce his 20-year prison sentence.
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Iranian Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi issues a bold appeal to outlaw the use of solitary confinement in jails.
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Judges should be allowed to impose harsher penalties on criminals without jury involvement, a government lawyer told the Supreme Court.
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A judge on Wednesday reduced the time former President Rafael Angel Calderon must spend in jail while being investigated on corruption charges.
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A series of prohibitions recently issued by the Higher People&#39;s Court of the Beijing Municipality on judges&#39; dealings with cases are expected to help maintain justice if strictly implemented, says an article in Beijing Youth Daily.
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TORONTO - The judge overseeing Air Canada&#39;s reorganization warned the carrier yesterday to ditch the &quot;us-versus-them&quot; mentality that has dominated the way business was conducted in the past.
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Prosecutors on Friday urged the judge overseeing the racketeering case against former Gov. George Ryan to set a firm trial date, complaining that additional delays could harm their case because witnesses might die before they have a chance to testify.
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A judge who sparked outrage when he sentenced a repeat sex offender to two months in jail said Friday he will retire.
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The judge in the court martial of three UK soldiers accused of abuse appeals for an end to public statements.
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MANNHEIM, GERMANY - A military judge hearing evidence about the abuse of prisoners at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison warned the US government on Monday to speed up its investigation or risk derailing the case against at least one of the accused soldiers.
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An American citizen serving a 20-year sentence for fighting with the former Taleban regime in Afghanistan is asking President Bush to reduce his prison term.
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An Australian judge urges calm in the trial of a policeman for manslaughter of an Aboriginal man.
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Allowing federal judges great leeway in sentencing criminals does not have to breed chaos, according to judges and sentencing specialists in states that already have such systems.