Tribe: Nooksack Indian Tribe
Sentencing: It is the policy of the Nooksack Indian Tribe that penalties for convictions under Title 20, Crimes, under the Nooksack Law and Order Code should be based on a restitution program under which the criminal offender is required to repay, as a condition of his sentence, the victim and community in money or services.
To this end, fines and jail time, community service and other sentencing alternatives, such as alcohol-abuse counseling, should be balanced to insure that convicted offenders will receive just and adequate sentences that will require them to assume the maximum amount of responsibility for all of the consequences of their criminal acts.