``Proposal to lock courtrooms not acceptable''
Proposal of the All Pakistan High Court Bar Associations to lock courtrooms is not acceptable and would not be approved in the All Pakistan Lawyers Convention on July 19 in Lahore, the Pakistan Bar Council said on Sunday.
On June 16, 2011, the Supreme Court decided Tapia v. United States, No. 10-5400, holding that 18 USC § 3582, which instructs courts to ``recogniz(e) that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation,'' prohibits judges at sentencing from imposing or lengthening a term of imprisonment to promote the defendant's need for rehabilitation.