New York currently has a system known as indeterminate sentencing.

"We do have indeterminate sentences in this country," he says.

The youth, now 16, is serving an indeterminate sentence of up to 20 years.

Only first offenders get the benefit of an indeterminate sentence.

But in the long run the government will save from the abolition of indeterminate sentences.

One such procedure is the policy of indeterminate sentencing.

By 1931, eighty percent of the inmates were serving indeterminate sentences.

He was sentenced under juvenile law, which also allows for indeterminate sentences.

On indeterminate sentences, Khan says that the government is supposed to be reviewing these.

Once again he was paroled after serving two years of an "indeterminate sentence".

"Lot of times he was sentenced to state prison under the old indeterminate sentence system.

On 15 December she was also given an indeterminate sentence, with a minimum tariff of five years.

Many experts would like to see some kind of return to indeterminate sentencing, though they disagree on the particulars.

This is an indeterminate sentence which allows the offender to be released when suitable.

Some of those currently getting indeterminate sentences would get life sentences instead.

Richardson was given an indeterminate sentence because of her age at the time of the offense.

Decision : the criteria for the imposition of an indeterminate sentence were well known.

Clarke says many indeterminate sentences were given to people who should have had life sentences.

There are also options for an indeterminate sentence.

Second, states could return to indeterminate sentencing, in which the authorized range of punishment for crimes is very broad.

Congress conducted hearings relative to legislation providing for a broader form of federal indeterminate sentence.

Indeterminate sentences do not work as parliament intended.

Mr. Knight received a 10-to-25-year indeterminate sentence in 1960 for committing robbery.

New York now has so-called indeterminate sentencing.

Most offenders receive indeterminate sentences, meaning there is no set end date to the sentences.