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Prison (Correctional centers)
- 2/3 prisoners in prison
- Run by state
- Larger and in rural areas
- Have rehab element
- Mental health and or drug addiction 75%
- Very expensive and not a lot of room ($45,000 per inmate per yr)
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Rockefeller law
Minimum sentence you have to have
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Restorative justice
Keep violent people in jail longer and nonviolent people get out of jail quicker
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Parole
- Monitor offenders upon their release from jail
- Sentenced to 10yrs in jail; good person in jail 50-75% (7yrs) done with sentence can get out early -On parole for rest of 3 yrs
- ---If bad go back to jail
- Motivates more serious offenders to do better
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Probation
- Monitored by court In lieu of going to jail
- ---Less serious crime
- ---Only set to jail if violates probation
- ---Home arrest
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Sentencing
- Judge job
- Agreement- plea bargain
- Does the punishment fit the crime?
- What is the max/ min sentences?
- Different sentences (Fine, probation alternative sanction, jail, death penality)
- --- people in simular situation get simular punishment
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Alternative Sanction
- Rehab
- community service
- restitution centers -monitored and money they make given to victim
- diversionary programs – allow you to get your case dismissed if do everything you are supposed to do (usually first offenders)
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How jail sentences imposed?
- indeterminate sentence
- legislatively fixed
- judicially fixed
- administratively fixed
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Indeterminate sentence
- Range of punishment (5-10 yrs in prison)
- Not fair bc rich can pay for better lawyer and even though get same sentence rich get out quicker
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Legislatively fixed
Mandatory minimum
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Judicially fixed
- Most common
- Sentence in range and it is up to the judge to decide where you fall
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Administratively fixed
- Parole Board decides when you get out
- Usually need to do 50 or 85% of punishment eligible to can get out (on parole)
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