determinate sentence

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parole

  • In parole

    …parole in favour of “determinate” sentences with a fixed release date. To retain the rehabilitative advantages of parole, however, several of these states strengthened “good-time” provisions, whereby a convict’s period of imprisonment could be reduced in consideration of good behaviour in prison. Many of the states that retained parole…

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