community corrections, restitution, fines, probation, and other similar alternatives to incarceration (Pitts, Griffin, & Johnson, 2014). Including different programs for individuals that would go to prison for committing a minor crime can help soften the overcrowding issue, but at the same time allowing extra room for more serious crimes. Another solution is enrolling eligible inmates into work release programs, half way houses, or even release on parole. These backdoor strategies toward prison population
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not eligible for suspension of sentence, probation, pardon or release on any basis except that the person may be eligible for commutation after the person has served at least thirty-five years. Also a person convicted of a first or second offense for the personal possession or use of a controlled substance must be placed on probation unless the person is also convicted of a violent offense. Incarceration may not be imposed as an initial condition of probation for a first offense. If a person convicted
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first degree of death by stabbing. Yvette Louisell, 17 at the time (Now 45) was a former student of ISU, who claims she fell victim to sexual assault of Keith Stilwell, and had to take her chances. Her original sentencing was in for life, no probation or parole. It was then brought to the court's attention again in 2012 and was redeemed unfair with the new evidence of childhood molestation by her father. Her time has been brought down to 23 years, yet she has already served 28 years. She remains in
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Drug Courts: Adult and Juvenile Rehabilitation Programs Eugene Berry Crj2200 Introduction to Criminal Courts Drug courts handle nonviolent substance abuse offenders, drug courts are used primarily to solve a problem rather than to send someone to jail or lock an offender away with less chance of rehabilitation. In the United States there are currently almost 2500 drug courts in the 50 states as well as the U.S. territories of Guam, and Puerto Ricco. Drug courts got their start in Florida, in
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sentenced to 60-days in a juvenile correction facility. He was released last Thursday (March 14). Being in jail gave the 17-year-old time to reflect on his life, which seemed to be an endless spiral of unfortunate predicaments including violating his parole (which sent him to custody in the first place), being looked at in the shooting death of aspiring rapper Joseph “Lil Jo Jo” Coleman, and getting sued for child support by a middle school student, to name a few. Months after his “I Don’t Like” record
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systems have evolved. Correctional systems are also known as Penal Systems, which refers to a network of agencies that administer jurisdiction over prisons. Today, the punishment for committing a crime include imprisonment, restitution/ fines, probation/ parole and the death penalty. However, there was a time when individuals would have their right hand cut off for stealing, or be drowned for committing adultery. Imagine being part of a society where drowning someone for committing adultery is considered
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for Private Prison of America. Therefore, corporation is planning to join other private prison corporations by making campaign donation and retaining lobbyist to draft and seek the passage of two laws about anti-illegal immigrant and the Intensive Probation Act that will increase opportunities to do business with the federal government. As a manager at Private Prison Corporation of America, I will conduct a stakeholder analysis to determine whether PPA should do it, and my analysis bases on the frameworks
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number of ways; together, the responses of the criminal justice system constitute one set of possible actions. The American Prison Association changed its name to American Correctional Association. This name change reflected the growing role of probation, parole, and other non-institutional methods of supervising and helping criminals. But symbolically it gave prisons a new mission: rehabilitation. Prisons offered an unprecedented number of programs designed to change the behavior of men and women in
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civilized society. In the New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander discusses the racial underpinnings of the prison industrial complex. Alexander asserts that “more African-American adults are under correctional control toady-in prison or jail, on probation or parole-than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.” (Alexander, 175) This startling reality is what leads the author to analogize the mass incarceration of African-Americans as the new slave plantation. One of the main points
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“Similarities between mass incarceration and Jim Crow . . the creation and maintenance of racial segregation is one example. . . . Mass incarceration achieves racial segregation by segregating prisoners – the majority of whom are black and brown – from mainstream society.” (195) What examples and evidence does Michelle Alexander use to explain this statement? Perhaps one of the greatest similarities between the mass incarceration and Jim Crow, is the restricted rights of convicted criminals. The
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