Examples of 'serving a sentence' in a sentence

Meaning of "serving a sentence"

In the context of law and criminal justice, 'serving a sentence' refers to the period of time an individual spends in prison as a punishment for a crime they have committed. During this time, the person is required to abide by the rules and regulations of the prison system, completing their assigned term before being released

How to use "serving a sentence" in a sentence

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Young inmates serving a sentence as a reform measure.
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Offenders serving a sentence of two years or more.
People who are receiving reeducation through labor or serving a sentence.
Vaughn had been serving a sentence for murder.
Detainees pending investigation must be separated from inmates serving a sentence.
Convicts serving a sentence in prison are entitled.
O an inmate of a correctional facility serving a sentence of five years or more.
Convicts serving a sentence in educational labour colonies are entitled.
You may not be serving a sentence.
Not be serving a sentence for having been convicted of a felony.
Rights while serving a sentence.
Convicts serving a sentence in corrective labour colonies of augmented regime are entitled.
The actual dossier of a man now serving a sentence for housebreaking.
He was serving a sentence for selling drugs.

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They apply to prisoners remanded in custody as well as those serving a sentence.
Of offenders are serving a sentence for a violent offence.
Accused persons shall be detained separately from those serving a sentence.
Turns out he was serving a sentence based on a coerced confession.
Solitary confinement was sometimes ordered as a disciplinary measure for a person serving a sentence.
You were serving a sentence for rape.
Belongings should never be destroyed while their owner is still serving a sentence.
He is currently serving a sentence of life in prison.
The structures of penitentiary system supervise the respect of the rights of persons serving a sentence.
He was convicted and he is now serving a sentence under a terrorism conviction.
He is serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release in a federal prison.
Duration of serving a sentence.
Convicts serving a sentence in corrective labour institutions of strict regime are entitled.
Are in prison serving a sentence.
Prisoners serving a sentence of less than one year are sent to local prisons.
Indigenous offenders were more likely to be serving a sentence for a violent offence.
You are serving a sentence and you go out every night.
The maximum time that a minor may spend serving a sentence is four years.
Is serving a sentence.
Amendments were introduced limiting the ban to prisoners serving a sentence of two years or more.
He is serving a sentence for murder and has escaped from prison on a number of occasions.
Most women offenders are serving a sentence of less than five years.
Most systems appear to apply similarly to both pretrial detainees and detainees serving a sentence.
Prisoners serving a sentence.
Serving a sentence outside Canada.
Acts committed by a person serving a sentence in a place of detention that entail.
Serving a sentence is different in federal custody, also.
It is questionable that every person serving a sentence of imprisonment is necessarily a serious offender.
Fortythree accused are in custody either on trial, awaiting trial or serving a sentence.
At the time he was already serving a sentence of home detention for other charges.
This is not a prison, and its residents are not serving a sentence.
The defendant committed the crime while serving a sentence of imprisonment on conviction of a felony.
Juveniles serving a sentence were placed in detention centres where they were separated from adult detainees.
Caradori discovered her in jail where she was serving a sentence for passing bad checks.
She is serving a sentence at Danbury.

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