Imagine how much money would be saved if the death penalty was abolished. Would it not be much cheaper to give out life without parole and incorporate some type of factory work that would make the prisoners support their prison and all cost associated with housing them? More often than not, studies show that the death penalty is not an effective deterrent of crime, although many feel it to be an effective measure. Since the death penalty takes so long because it is rarely enforced and it tends to take years to carry out an execution, it is hard to draw conclusive evidence. There doesn’t seem to be any conclusive evidence showing that it is an effective deterrent of crime at least no more so than facing life in prison without the possibly of
CONS: * There are no other options available to you if your found guilty or plead guilty no judge can offer a suspended sentence or probation you are required by law to serve the specific amount of time. * It cost alot of money to house offenders in prisons and jails if offenders who got the determinate sentence could be released early this would free up millions of dollars for the state. Indeterminate Sentence PROS: * This can encourage offenders to act right and follow rules while incarcerated because they know that by doing this it can help in getting a early release date. * Empowers judges and parole boards to make sure that offenders that still seem to be a risk to the public remains incarcerated. * Individualizing sentencing & release decisions.
As a result of incarcerating criminals for lesser or minor crimes, inmate population numbers have risen sharply and thus have impacted current facility operations funding via taxpayer dollars. Another impact to funding is that if the bill passes it will add to the already rising population and cost levels to support and maintain future and current facilities. Although the bill is popular throughout the communities, it can be used as a political tool to gain voter support during election years. And finally it may bring forth new trials for those already incarcerated for similar
(Foster, 2006). I feel that to make the parole process better than what it is all violent offenders’ rapist, murders, and pedophiles should serve 99 percent if not all of their time behind bars. These types of crimes really should not even be up for parole. I feel if we make it harder for a convict to get out of prison they might decide the crime and time is just not worth the stay and realize that when they are free from a life of crime society has so much more to
It seems as the United State in not doing anything to stop the illegal immigrants, they must seal the borders. Another thing law enforcement should do is prosecute employers who hire illegal immigrants. If there were no jobs most illegal immigrants would leave, or most would not come in the first place. My solution to immigration begins with eliminating incentives for people to come to America illegally. To do this, we must increase and enforce the penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants.
This discouraging figure, along with the prohibitively high cost of a higher education has led to a second wave of slaves in the twenty-first century. These wage slaves work in industries such as customer service, construction, and retail. According to a 2014 study from the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research, 23% of poor Americans are employed, with 4% of full time workers beneath the poverty line, and 16% of part time workers beneath it. Because of this, these 10.6 million people receive Welfare, or some other form of assisted living. According to the Institute for Economic Policy, roughly
Judges need more discretionary power, as imprisonment is not effective in rehabilitating all offenders. Parliaments should have less influence on the administration of justice. Politicians are wholly concerned with winning votes and decisions they make might be popular with the majority of society but they can be detrimental to the process of rehabilitating offenders, and reducing chances of future recidivism. The legislature should be able to pass laws against any act or omission of duty that results in harm to society but leave the interpretation and application of those laws to judiciary, which is concurrent with the Separation of Powers Doctrine. Judges should be able employ other methods if they feel that they will be more successful.
From 2007 to 2010, the national unemployment rate for American Indians increased 7.7% to 15.2%. The largest employers for American Indians are Tribal and Federal governments on the reservations. Many are forced to look for work outside of the reservation and receive lower wages that leave them failing to meet their basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing. “A major cause of poverty in Native American communities is the persistent lack of opportunity. Only 36 percent of males in high-poverty Native American communities have full-time, year-round employment.” (Rodgers, 2013) The overall percentage of American Indians living below the federal poverty line is 28.2% (2008, American Indians Census Facts).
Many people work hard for years to become a citizen and some don’t even become a citizen. They also take jobs away from United States citizens because they work for less. The average American working man is the one who is taking the biggest hit for illegal immigration. In tough economic times, we cannot afford to pay for non-citizens let alone are citizens. The United States of America pays _______
The staff’s safety is jeopardized because of being out numbered in the offender to officer ratio. During fiscal year 2000 the inmate population had increased to 9.8 inmates to each correctional officer and in 2005 the inmate population was 10.9 inmates for every correctional officer. By 2011 the inmate population decreased to 10.2 which was only a 0.7 decrease (James, 2013). The ratio of offenders to officers is important because it can cause the