Ways of the Wizarding World - are all sentences Life Sentences?

[Mil]

No: HPFGUIDX 159640

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Abel" <random832 at ...> 
wrote:
>
I think it's always been an instrument of extreme torture - there's no
> reason to think the dementors haven't always been there. <snip> 
Maybe there were before Crouch, maybe not - who knows?
> 

Mil:

IIRC, before Crouch, there were Dementors (Hagrid remembers that 
well)... But Dumbledore says he's always been against using Dementors 
in Azkaban (or any place for that matter, remember POA?)

And further more... as of book 6, Dementors joined with Voldemort 
(Crouch told the Prime Minister this) so I'm guessing their using some 
other kind of gaurds for Azkaban right now... Aurors maybe?