An Alternative to Incarceration for Nonviolent Offenders COMMUNITY BASED CORRECTIONS PROFESSOR WARDEN J. JONES April 11‚ 2013 Community corrections is a range of alternative punishments for nonviolent offenders. There are two basic community corrections models in the United States. In the first model‚ integrated community corrections programs combine sentencing guidelines and judicial discretion with a variety of alternative sanctions and parole and probation options. In the
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follows the verdict is called sentencing. A sentence is the penalty ordered by the court (“Sentencing‚” n.d.). The main goal of the sentencing guidelines is to put the offender with the correct community sanction. Three types of alternatives of incarceration are pre-trial diversion programs‚ alternative
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one drug at the time of their arrest” (http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/criminal-justice-reform). This information gives some insight into the pervasiveness of the presenting problem. Drug addiction is an epidemic among those being arrested. Incarceration has been the “big stick” of numerous administrations when it comes to fighting the drug war. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 enacted new federal laws governing how we deal with drugs in the country. These guidelines were the logical extension
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solve these problems‚ for example‚ in many cases from the beginning of time retribution has been the answer. Another form of punishment was eventually invented that would isolate offenders from the rest of the community. This punishment called incarceration‚ or prison‚ takes the violator out of the society in an effort to stop any future misdoings. From their inception‚ prisons have attempted to act as both a deterrent and a rehabilitator. However‚ in certain times one of these is more stressed
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offenders‚ and the community by lowering costs and prison overcrowding‚ while keeping intermediate crime offenders out of jails and prisons. Body Paragraphs: 1. How Community Corrections provides alternatives to imprisonment. 2. How Community Corrections is designed to consider both the safety of local residents as well as the treatment and rehabilitation needs of the offender. 3. How Community Corrections reduces prison overcrowding. 4. How Community Corrections allows judges’ a more
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Crow” is a system that predicates current racial differences on past social constructs that relate and date back to slavery and the Civil Rights Movement. The mass incarceration of black men in America is not the result of a propensity to commit or an affinity for drugs and crime‚ according to Alexander. Instead‚ the mass incarceration of black and brown men is a product of
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a probation officer. (Bartollas‚ 2011) Probation is gives youths second chances and provide services that will help offenders stay out of trouble. Probation promotes rehabilitation‚ avoids the negative impact of confinement‚ cost less than incarceration‚ and allows offenders to retain their liberty but provides the society with some protection. There are a growing number of minors entering the system‚ and proper placement
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Justice 2 The United States correctional system uses both punishment and rehabilitation when dealing with offenders. There are many ways that the justice system handles these punishments such as incarceration‚ probation‚ and sometimes death. However‚ punishment does not seem to work. It seems that the only way to effectively handle criminals is with successful rehabilitation. Punishment in the United States goes way back to the beginning of time‚
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The prison world is predominately male dominated. As the years go by‚ female incarceration levels have been rapidly increasing. The prisons in early days didn’t have to worry about dealing with two different types of inmates as there were not that many females incarcerated. While male and female inmates do have some similarities‚ they also have some distinct differences. The way they conduct themselves in prison are different; as are they way they interact with other inmates. Males typically are
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Punishment versus Rehabilitation Paper AJS/502 Tunisha Coates‚ Russell Richardson‚ & Venita Williams April 23th‚ 2012 Sylvia Beaver Punishment versus Rehabilitation Punishment
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