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Sentencing Options of Federal District Judges [Superseded]

Anthony Partridge, Alan J. Chaset, William B. Eldridge
January 1, 1981

A description of the statutory sentencing alternatives in the federal courts. Addressed primarily to newly appointed district judges, the report relates sentencing alternatives to the policies of the agencies that carry out the sentences, particularly the Bureau of Prisons and the Parole Commission.

Superseded by Sentencing Options of Federal District Judges (1983).


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