Sentencing discretion: courts may explicitly prescribe rigorous, simple, or mixed terms of imprisonment in the sentence. Courts have authority to direct in the sentence that imprisonment which may be of either description shall be wholly rigorous, wholly simple, or that any part shall be rigorous and the rest simple, thereby specifying the character and allocation of custody within a single term of imprisonment.
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Sentencing discretion: courts may explicitly prescribe rigorous, simple, or mixed terms of imprisonment in the sentence.
Courts have authority to direct in the sentence that imprisonment which may be of either description shall be wholly rigorous, wholly simple, or that any part shall be rigorous and the rest simple, thereby specifying the character and allocation of custody within a single term of imprisonment.
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