INDETERMINATE SENTENCING

By SovConn | June 23, 2013

indeterminate sentencing.The practice of not imposing a definite term of confinement, but instead prescribing a range for the minimum and maximum term, leaving the precise term to be fixed in some other way, usu. based on the prisoner’s conduct and apparent rehabilitation while incarcerated. — Also termed indefinite sentencing. See indeterminate sentence under SENTENCE. [Cases: Sentencing and Punishment 1124.]

[Blacks Law 8th]

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