1.   Prison reformers are trying to strike a balance between punishing offenders and helping them to avoid repeating their offences.

2.   The Act aimed to boost the fairness of fines, and introduced means-related unit fines as a way of punishing young offenders.

3.   That is the most humane and least expensive approach to punishing nonviolent offenders.

4.   Hong Kong courts do not have any guidelines on punishing electoral offenders, according to Chief High Court Judge Patrick Chan Siu-oi.

5.   These police roam the streets of Kabul publicly punishing offenders.