Federal Jurisdiction

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The American criminal justice system contains many jurisdictions within, some of which overlap one another. The jurisdiction that our group will be focusing on is the Federal Jurisdiction: how federal agents enforce the law and how the federal courts punish those who have broken those laws. We will briefly discuss how the federal system deals with offenders after they have been sentenced. In interaction with Law Enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), serving as both a federal criminal investigative body and a domestic intelligence agency. At present, the FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than…show more content…
The Judicial Conference is assisted in its work by more than 20 committees, whose members are appointed by the Chief Justice. The Committee on International Judicial Relations is composed of several federal judges and a liaison member from the State Department. The Constitution established three separate branches of government: Legislative (Article I), Executive (Article II), and Judicial (Article III) (Mecham, 2001). The three branches of the federal government operate within a constitutional system known as “checks and balances.” Each branch is formally separate from the other two, and each has certain constitutional authority to check the actions of the others. In the Legislative branch, the national legislature of the United States, is composed of two houses or chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state has two Senators who are elected for six-year terms. One-third of the Senate is elected every two years. Members of the House of Representatives are elected from local districts within states. Each state…show more content…
This is determined by the Federal Marshals that move the individuals from Federal Facility to Federal Facility. The person is entered into SENTRY which is a database that has all the Federal Inmates on file for the any Federal Corrections staff member to look up it is used to keep tabs on inmates. An individual can be given four types of levels of classification. The lowest level of security is community and people on this level are eligible for community based punishments, and the person is permitted to leave confines of the prison unattended and go on furloughs, which are also unsupervised. The person is also available to attend a Community Corrections Centers when the person is released. The next level of security is “out”; people under this supervision are seen as suitable for low security housing and can work outside the prison’s perimeter and are hardly watched. The next level of security is “in”; people under this level are placed in regular house accommodations and can do regular work and education but in a

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