Time spent in lockdown during prison riots is a mitigating factor in sentencing, but its weight will not ordinarily be significant unless the offender demonstrates personal circumstances making lockdown conditions particularly burdensome. An offender's role in a drug cultivation enterprise need not be categorised as 'principal' or 'organiser' for a substantial sentence to be imposed; the focus is on what the offender actually did.
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