The Higher Council of Magistrates has voted against the Minister of Justice's initiative to abrogate the legislative provision on reducing prison sentences if inmates do scientific work and have it published. The former Chairman of the self-entitled Superior Council of Magistracy, Adrian Bordea, said that a possible abrogation of the law allowing one to reduce the sentences of convicts who publish scientific papers would do more harm than good and the solution is to toughen the law and scale up its enforcement.