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Usually sentencing judges can offer a choice to agree to some novel restriction or face the codified penalty, as far as I know. Not sure granting the judiciary

• skissane 3y ago
  We are talking here about the US federal system, which has probation as a sentencing option, and I believe judges already have pretty wide latitude to set custom probation conditions. I suppose the problem is the sentencing guidelines and societal expectations are for custodial sentences. But I think many people who oppose lengthy prison terms for nonviolent offenders when the offender is the neighbourhood drug dealer or some petty thief are suddenly no longer opposed when it is a (formerly wealthy) white collar criminal