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Indeterminate sentencing, means the practice of not imposing a definite term of confinement, but instead prescribing a range for the minimum and maximum term, leaving the precise term to be fixed in some other way, usu. based on the prisoner's conduct and apparent rehabilitation while incar-cerated, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 774.