ail and prisons Jail and Prisons Comparison Kristofer Kem CJA/234 October 18‚ 2012 Luis Cintron Jail and Prisons Comparison Most people do not realize that there are differences between jails and prisons. Jails hold people awaiting trial or people that are sentenced for a short term‚ which is usually less than a year. That is jails place in corrections. Prisons hold people that are convicted of crimes and sentenced for a longer term. In the United States‚ jails are most often run by sheriffs
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The amount of money we have has a big effect on the 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
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Jails and Prisons Response Jails and Prisons Response Prisons and jails may both confine offenders but they have their differences. Jails are for offenders that have short term sentences or for holding until the offender is transferred to a prison. They are also used to hold a criminal during their hearings until
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Corrections Jails vs. Prisons ------------------------------------------------- Andrea K. Wester ------------------------------------------------- April 30‚ 2012 To start‚ this paper has been more than challenging for me. Never before has my eyes been more opened to such differences. And to warn you I may have more information than needed‚ but no surprise there. Here bellow is what I have come up with on the differences between jail systems and prisons systems. There is not a major difference
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authority. Some of these places include prisons‚ concentrated camps‚ mental hospital‚ seminaries‚ and other facilities in which individuals are cut off from society forcibly or willingly. Jails play an important role in the criminal justice system because they keep offenders that have committed a crime off of the streets. Jails also help our community to be safe by holding the inmates who are charged with crimes‚ and making sure
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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 right path. But going down the wrong path again and again can result in you having more time in jail‚ little to no freedom‚ and being unable
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in is corrections. In corrections you have jails‚ state prisons and federal prisons‚ but there are different security levels within them. I will be briefly discuss the history of corrections and also give your insight to an employee who works in a prison system here in Atlanta‚ Georgia and get some personal views in his field of work. First I would like to start off by talking about jail and it is used to house criminals for short periods of time. Jails usually have people who have been convicted
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There have been numerous suggestions to try and help with jail and prison overcrowding. Some of these solutions are known as front-door solutions while others are known as back door solutions. Front door solutions to prison overcrowding are frequently directed at prosecutors and judges and the way that they handle offenders before and during sentencing. “Some observers suggest greater use of diversion and/or assignment to community service agencies‚ where some offenders may bypass the criminal justice
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Sign In | Sign Up ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form 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
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Jail and Prison Mike Roberts CJS/201 4/13/2015 University of Phoenix Jail and Prison For more than two hundred years the United States has utilized imprisonment to rebuff any hoodlums. Prison and jails are the foundations that judges send offenders to‚ so they can serve time relying upon the earnestness of their unlawful activity that the individual has submitted. Being detained is the empathetic type of discipline that is utilized considering how they used to reform people back in more seasoned
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