Experts say creative sentences’ such as the one Jason Kenny has received can be seen as a move toward prison reform – whether they are available to all defendantsA former Georgia sheriff’s deputy,convicted for using a stun gun on a restrained detainee who later died alone in his cell, was sentenced on Friday to one month in jail and three years’ probation.
His conviction for cruelty of an inmate carried jail time of up to three years. But significantly shorter jail time was not the only way Chatham County superior court judge James Bass issued a more lenient sentence: he also allowed the former deputy to serve his time on the weekends.
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Source: theguardian.com