What are your views about this more recent way of criminal sanctioning? What overall advice would you give to assure that this new system of sentencing is used appropriately?

RP 6A

Today we have transitioned from an either/ or choice between the use of incarceration, or the use of probation, to the use of graduated sanctions, affording us a wide array of possible sentencing options, as referred to in the text. What are your views about this more recent way of criminal sanctioning? What overall advice would you give to assure that this new system of sentencing is used appropriately?