Under this new act, tribes may sentence offenders for up to three years per offense and a $15,000 fine.

Volunteers help sentence offenders and then help them lead better lives and live better.

The Governor's new proposal would allow judges to sentence nonviolent second-time offenders to alternative programs.

The court would also offer social services, and would sentence offenders to work at neighborhood cleanup, recycling centers, soup kitchens and other useful projects.

A provision of the Family Court Act allows judges to sentence juvenile offenders to "perform service for the public good."

The measure allows judges to sentence nonviolent offenders to jail or probation.

The new law allows judges to sentence such offenders to jail.

Powers should be given to the courts to sentence adult offenders to attendance centres.

As an alternative to imprisonment, the courts would have discretion to sentence offenders, with their consent, to between forty and 240 hours of community service work.

Judges often sentence offenders to community service, police officials say.