Checkpoint: Jails and Prisons Response When one observes the prison system in the present day there seems to be a considerable amount of facilities that contain inmates. The location that a criminal is stationed in becomes agreed upon by whatever was carried out wrongly or upon the type of crime perpetrated along with the individual’s mental stage. The collective four penitentiaries that will be presented are county and local jails‚ federal prisons‚ private prisons‚ and state prisons. The main
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Prisons and jails are somewhat similar to each other but are different in some ways so let me tell you a little about jails and prison‚ and those places are for people who have commited a crime or have broken the law. Jails are usually run by law enforcement or local government‚ and are to hold inmates who are awaiting trial or serving a short sentence ‚ jail even often operate work on release programs and boot camps‚ and some offer educational or substance abuse but‚ these programs are created
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Once in jail‚ some criminals can get temporary freedom through bail bonds. Bail bonds are basically contractual undertakings between the person posting bail and the bail bond broker. With the bail bond‚ it is the responsibility of the bail bond broker to promise the appearing of the defendant in court when summoned. It is usually kith or kin who contacts the bail agent for the release of the defendant through a bail bond. The bail amount for the defendant is decided by the judge‚ where the bail
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The Letter from Birmingham Jail or Letter from Birmingham City Jail‚ is an open letter written on April 16‚ 1963‚ by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. King wrote the letter from the city jail in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ where he was confined after being arrested for his part in the Birmingham campaign‚ a planned non-violent protest conducted by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference against racial segregation by Birmingham’s city government and downtown
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kind of life we can live‚ but should it determine whether or not a person stays in jail due to financial equalities? Money should not be the factor in a person spending a few hours in jail to a few days‚ or weeks. When it comes to one’s ability to be free or to be with one’s family‚ sleep in one’s home‚ or go to work‚ should money really be the sole decisive factor? It is for most people who can’t afford bail. Whether you are rich or poor it is the only thing that determines whether you are free or incarcerated
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Jail and Prisons Comparison Paper Jail is usually the first place a person is taken after being arrested by police officers. The authority of states to build‚ operate‚ and fill jails can be found in the Tenth Amendment‚ which has been construed to grant to states the power to pass their own laws to preserve the safety‚ health‚ and welfare of their communities. Jail is to protect the public and citizens of county by providing a wide range of constructive‚ professional correctional services for
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Jails and Prisons Pedro A Prieto CJA/204 04/27/2015 Steve Kurrle Jails and Prisons Imprisonment has been around since the middle ages. Centuries ago‚ other forms of punishment were more favorable over imprisonment. In this day and age‚ prisons and jails serve a vital role in the criminal justice system and also provide a more humane way of punishing criminals (Mutchnick‚ 2009). Types of Prisons There are three different types of prisons; maximum-security‚ medium-security‚ and minimum-security
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Home > Opinions > Politics > Would a mandatory jail sentence help decrease the instances of drunk driving? DEBATES OPINIONS FORUMS Report Topic Create New Topic Would a mandatory jail sentence help decrease the instances of drunk driving? Related Topics: Services‚ Blood alcohol content‚ Driving under the influence‚ Sentence (law)‚ Law 59% Say Yes 41% Say No * Drunk drivers should be imprisoned upon first offense There would be fewer drunk drivers on the road. Many lives would be saved by car
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Short Write #1 1. Martin Luther King Jr.’s thesis in the Letter from a Birmingham Jail is repudiation of the clergymen’s disapproval of his direct action-nonviolent resistance campaign. 2. Martin Luther King Jr supports his thesis by starting out refuting the idea that he is an outside protestor that doesn’t belong in Birmingham. He was serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference‚ an organization operating in the southern states. The associate in Birmingham asked him to be
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lives but you have two choices. You can either choose to change your ways‚ become good and make something of your life or you can choose to continue your bad ways and continuously go to jail. People who do wrong can make their lives better and do the right thing to become something. But some people choose to go back to jail and make nothing of their life. Going down the path of good can result in you becoming free‚ making money‚ and having a family. There is so much good that comes when you are on the
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