The question as to whether a person should be granted bail is decided before that person goes to court. This is known as a pretrial matter. If bail is granted, it allows a person to remain at liberty until the next stage of their case. The police have the power to grant bail to people who have been charged or people who are yet to be charged. If the person is not charged it is so they can further the investigation, if they are charged it is so they can remain at liberty until the court date.
Parole and Mandatory Release CJS/230 2/29/2013 Parole and Mandatory Release Within the criminal justice systems there are other alternatives measures used to correct or punish an offender for wrongful acts. Parole is when a convict is permitted conditional discharge from confinement prior to the completion of the judgment. The parolee is obliged to abide by specific circumstances of conduct. Theses circumstances are ordered by the Commission. Parole allows an individual to serve the remainder of their prison verdict outside the confines of the prison system.
Parole and Truth-in-Sentencing CJS/200 Foundations of Criminal Justice System Parole is the supervised release of an inmate on earlier than scheduled terms. Probation and parole differ. It differs in purpose and implementation. Probation offenders serve time outside the prison unlike parole offenders who do time in and out of prison. The convicted offender has a parole officer or authority figure to ensure they are meeting conditions for the duration of their sentence.
This supervision is conducted by a probation’s officer. Parole, on the other hand, is the supervised early release of a convicted offender from prison before the convicted offender has fully served his or her sentence. Compared to probation, where a criminal convict is not required to serve any time in jail, parolees have already been incarcerated. In most states, a parole board decides if an incarcerated offender is eligible for a conditional release. When convicted offenders are released on parole their supervision is placed in the hands of parole officers.
Bail, if granted, entitles the defendant to remain free until the next stage of the case against him. The starting point is that there is a presumption of bail. This means that the police and courts must grant bail and release the prisoner unless there are good reasons not to do so. If the defendant is not granted bail he will be kept in custody. There are some circumstances where this right to bail does not apply.
Conditions of parole often include things such as obeying the law, refraining from drug and alcohol use, avoiding contact with the parolee's victims, obtaining employment, and maintaining required contacts with a parole officer. Some justice systems, such as the United States federal system, place defendants on supervised release after serving their entire prison sentence; this is not the same as parole. In Colorado, parole is an additional punishment after the entire prison sentence is served—it is called "mandatory parole". Some states in the United States have what is known as "mandatory supervision", whereby an inmate is released prior to the completion of their sentence due to legal technicalities which oblige the offender justice system to free them. In some states such as Texas, inmates are compensated with "good time", which is counted towards time served.
* The parolee’s obligation to sign their conditions of parole. Failure to sign them can result in a return to prison (cdcr.ca.gov,
While they both have similarities their jobs are different as well. Probation officers come into play before sentencing to determine if the candidate would most likely succeed with probation. Parole comes after the individual has served a portion of the sentence imposed on them (Kris Kennedy, 01 18, 2010.) Probation sentences are decided and set by the judge, where parole sentences and changes are determined by the parole board. Probation is carried out by the traditional criminal justice system and parole by the correctional system.
And if they do, they know they have a better chance of getting off easy because they are tried as teens and not adults. I think we should be tougher on those teens who decide to commit violent crimes. There should be a law that states everyone over 12 years old will be tried as adults. I can’t say it’s going to stop all the criminals together but it will definitely convince potential and actual teenage offenders that committing adult crimes will get you hard adult time. If we were try teenage offenders of violent crime in adult court, adult charges would then force them to think like adults about their actions.
Non-violent crimes should just be a punishable fine because it saves money for the United States and the federal prisons in the United States. Non-violent crimes in America are rising rapidly and non-violent criminals are being sent to federal prisons or jails for a stupid reason. Like for an example many people are being arrested and sent to prison for selling drugs now how is this a violent crime? Drugs are illegal in America but it’s not really hurting our country right now. The main thing that is hurting our country right now is violence, when you read the news about Chicago they had more murders then the soldiers in Iraq due to gang violence.