sentencing. An Indeterminate term of incarceration is in which a judge determines the minimum and maximum terms of imprisonment. Only a jury can hand down the decision of the death penalty. When the minimum term is reached the prisoner becomes eligible to be paroled. Then there is determinate sentencing‚ this is a period of incarceration that is fixed by a sentencing authority and cannot be reduced by judges or other corrections officials. A factor that can change incarceration time is that of “good time”
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and prisons are becoming more overcrowded due to the recent increase in crime rates. Many criminal justice agencies have recently found a new method of punishment that can be used deter people from committing criminal actions and further prevent overcrowding the prisons. This new method of punishment is known as restorative justice. This new method of punishment focuses on having the offender restore the losses of both their victim and their community in lieu of being incarcerated (“Restorative Justice”
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Race‚ Prison‚ and Drug Laws—Impact of drugs upon the African American Community Studies show that “there are an estimated 1.5 million Black men in prison and another 3.5 million on probation. Black males make up more than 70 percent of the total prison population‚ even though they make up only 6 percent of the U.S. population” (Nealy‚ 2008). This can be due to the lack of education‚ the livelihood that person lived‚ drugs‚ violence‚ or many other situations‚ but my focus will be on the
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Corrections has continuously changed their goals and objectives throughout the history of corrections. The continuous changes to policies have many contributing factors beginning with the Attorney General‚ Governors‚ and appointed directors of the incarceration establishments. With changing laws‚ new problems arising and changing political stand points based on campaign agendas prisons themselves have been forced to adapt. When asked what the objectives of punishment are here in the U.S.‚ my first thought
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The case of Kansas v. Hendricks involves the respondent Hendricks filing suit against the State of Kansas in regards to the Sexually Violent Predator Act. Hendricks believed his incarceration through this Act would be considered double jeopardy and he was being convicted of the same crime twice. Hendricks had been found guilty of sexually molesting children. He was incarcerated and was nearing the end of his sentence when he filed the suit against the state of Kansas. The Sexually Violent Predator
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Sentencing Paper Rachel Urban CJA/234 February 25th‚ 2015 Richard Gilbert In this paper the topics that will be discussed will be what are the state and federal objectives of punishment? How does sentencing affect the state and federal corrections systems overall? With support for that answer‚ what is the determinate and indeterminate sentencing? As well as which sentencing model that is felt the most appropriate? With an explanation as to why and examples will be provided.
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The penitentiary is a place of incarceration of offenders with the idea of punishment and treatment to reduce crimes in society. The penitentiary has known different transformations throughout the history of prisons. World War 2 had a major impact on the development of prison labor. Even the actual prison system contents programs of deterrence to answer to the needs of society in the reduction of crimes; the incarceration number is increasing‚ and the penitentiary system is showing signs of failure
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Since the early 1980’s the private prison system in the United States has expanded immensely. This is mainly due to lobbying between corporations and politicians including big investors gaining record high profits within Wall Street. Through such lobbying this movement has been baptized as the Prison Industrial Complex where the main goal is making money by sending individual bodies to the confinements of the prison system. With the U.S. prisons housing approximately more than 2 million inmates through
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While the goal of incarceration is to rehabilitate the person to follow laws‚ the result is often isolation and loss of valuable time and moment they lose of work and resources that a person needs to maintain a positive role outside the prison system which after words is almost financially impossible to keep. Many people are affected by the incarceration of a person‚ from the family‚ to the community and employers‚ to society in general. Children are the worst effects by incarceration. You see Politician’s
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invented. Prison facilities house criminals sentenced to one year or longer of incarceration‚ (usually felons). State prisons are run by the government of the individual state they are located in and the federal government is somewhat involved also. Over the years‚ the severity and number of crimes had increased‚ violent crimes had increased immensely. Therefore‚ state prisons began to have major problems with overcrowding. It was also determined that there needed to be separate facilities to house
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