Where a prison sentence of 12 months or more is imposed on an offender who is not classified as "dangerous", that offender will be entitled to be released from custody after completing half of the sentence. The whole of the second half of the sentence will be subject to licence requirements.
(This has all been tightened up by the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Section 229 talks about what 'dangerous' means here. Note also the stuff about life sentences, which I suspect of being a bone thrown to the life-means-life crowd, though I haven't looked closely at them.)
Note that the Sentencing Guidelines say that the sentencer is supposed to clearly spell out what the sentence means and that it's really in two parts, one custodial and one in the community.
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Date: 2006-06-13 12:06 am (UTC)According to the Sentencing Guidelines (PDF) para 2.1.3 (p18):
(This has all been tightened up by the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Section 229 talks about what 'dangerous' means here. Note also the stuff about life sentences, which I suspect of being a bone thrown to the life-means-life crowd, though I haven't looked closely at them.)
Note that the Sentencing Guidelines say that the sentencer is supposed to clearly spell out what the sentence means and that it's really in two parts, one custodial and one in the community.