How Does Our Correctional System Punish Offenders
How does our correctional system punish offenders?
It will depend upon what type of sentence(s) the offender was/is given, if the offender is to be incarcerated, than that offender will have to serve time in a jail facility or in prison. The difference between jail and prison is that the prison will have a much longer term to serve out. Whereas the jail it is for small sentencing, like for one year. The offenders that are sent to the Federal system or the State prison may be held there at different levels of security of custody or in a community correctional facility.
When a prisoner becomes eligible for parole is after serving a specific part of their sentence. Some parolee’s will have some sort of condition upon release, like no going …show more content…
Those that are sentenced under determinate sentencing laws will be released only after they have served the full sentence (mandatory release) minus any “good time” which they received in prison. Good time is defined as credits against their sentences or by earning them through participation of various programs, for instance drug treatment, education, and other programs.
When a parolee has been released by either a parole board determination or by mandatory release, those individuals will be monitored by a parole officer located in the community. While under the watchful eye of a parole officer they will put into effective certain conditions of release. If the parolee violates any conditions they can be sent back to …show more content…
Punishment or rehabilitation? The definition of rehabilitation is to restore to useful life, as through therapy and education or to restore to good condition, operation, or capacity. Effective means to actually to operate in force of function. The word punishment means to have the authoritative imposition of something negative or unpleasant on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong by an individual or by a group, for purposes of punishment, it should be noted that it is being referred to by plain incarceration and imprisonment.
Rehabilitation is more humane to those who are incarcerated. In this process it helps to treat people to become good in our society. With this process it tries to help the offender change their ways, to help prevent them from committing the crime over again, and to possibly reduce
It will depend upon what type of sentence(s) the offender was/is given, if the offender is to be incarcerated, than that offender will have to serve time in a jail facility or in prison. The difference between jail and prison is that the prison will have a much longer term to serve out. Whereas the jail it is for small sentencing, like for one year. The offenders that are sent to the Federal system or the State prison may be held there at different levels of security of custody or in a community correctional facility.
When a prisoner becomes eligible for parole is after serving a specific part of their sentence. Some parolee’s will have some sort of condition upon release, like no going …show more content…
Those that are sentenced under determinate sentencing laws will be released only after they have served the full sentence (mandatory release) minus any “good time” which they received in prison. Good time is defined as credits against their sentences or by earning them through participation of various programs, for instance drug treatment, education, and other programs.
When a parolee has been released by either a parole board determination or by mandatory release, those individuals will be monitored by a parole officer located in the community. While under the watchful eye of a parole officer they will put into effective certain conditions of release. If the parolee violates any conditions they can be sent back to …show more content…
Punishment or rehabilitation? The definition of rehabilitation is to restore to useful life, as through therapy and education or to restore to good condition, operation, or capacity. Effective means to actually to operate in force of function. The word punishment means to have the authoritative imposition of something negative or unpleasant on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong by an individual or by a group, for purposes of punishment, it should be noted that it is being referred to by plain incarceration and imprisonment.
Rehabilitation is more humane to those who are incarcerated. In this process it helps to treat people to become good in our society. With this process it tries to help the offender change their ways, to help prevent them from committing the crime over again, and to possibly reduce