Correctional Systems Q&A Response Team B CJA/234 February 5, 2012 Daniella Carson Correctional Systems Q&A Response Team B will discuss the definition of jail, the historical role of jails as it applies to corrections. How we can improve the role of jails within correctional systems, the various problems in jail, problems that impact prisoners, as well as correctional professionals and other criminal justice professionals, and how we can recommend fixing these problems. Jail is a facility where criminals are detained, awaiting trial or has been convicted of a minor offense. The roles of a jail as it applies to corrections, is to hold the criminals while they await trial. Defendants, who are sentenced to one year, carry out their sentences in the county jail.
The process on becoming a probation officer you are to be able to work with people who were convicted of crimes and sentenced to probation instead of incarceration. Incarceration means the state of being imprisoned which is people who were convicted on a crime,criminal offenders, and dangerous people. Also my job is to arrange job training. I get to do test on every single person to make sure that they dont have drunk,smoke, and if they have use drugs. In order to do my job right i need to work in court and also go through profiles to check records of those people.
“A given correctional agency will sometimes take actions that do not seem best suited to achieving fairness or public protection. At times, correctional agencies may seem to work at odds with one another or with other aspects of the criminal justice process” (Clear, Cole, Reisig, and Petrosion, 2012, p. 11). In spite of this, our correctional institution have a give-and-take relationship with the environment in which it operates. What this means is the practice within corrections affect the community in which it operates, and the values and expectations of the community affects how corrections operate. “If the prison system provides inadequate drug treatment, offenders return to the community with ther same drug problems that they had when they were locked up” (Clear, Cole, Reisig, and Petrosion, 2012, p.
The 18th amendment rules and governs how criminal justice system s will handle crimes when sentencing is involved. While most states circuit court judges cannot sentence individuals to prison that are under a decree to reduce their population. Unless, others are released to make room for their inmates. The judge in this situation often has to reduce sentence or remove an individual offender of the crime charged. To keep the population at the jail for new arrivals.
Mandatory Minimum Sentences Mandatory minimum sentencing laws have been among the more popular crime-fighting measures of recent years. Mandatory minimum sentence refers to the fixed sentence that a judge is forced to deliver to an individual convicted of a crime, neglecting the culpability and other mitigating factors involved in the crime. They are those sentences, which a judicial officer is required to impose no matter what the circumstances of the offence. In other words, the judicial officer has no discretion to impose a higher or lower sentence depending upon the nature of the crime. For example, people convicted of certain crimes must be punished with at least a minimum number of years in prison.
Activities that would be considered criminal in the 1700s would not be considered a crime today. In today’s corrections we use jail or prison as our most common punishment some states still practice the death penalty as a capital punishment but we also use a rehabilitation and probation as a punishment as well. The realities of correctional enterprise concur with justifications of punishments with some cases. All criminals are not the same. There are criminals that need help but do not get help there for result in criminal activity.
Reasons for people being in jail could be for probation, parole, bail bond violators and absconders. Juveniles, pending transfer to juvenile authorities, and mentally ill people pending their movement to appropriate mental health facilities. Overcrowding is occurring due to incarceration sentencing and the “tough crime” mentality of the public affects the percentage of offenders who receive bail or are
Basically the parole decisions for an adult offender may depend on statutes enacted by the legislature, or the sentencing guidelines imposed by the court. In most offenses, statues require that a certain amount of time must be served before parole is considered, or prohibit parole entirely. In the federal correctional system parole is currently not available (Tonry & Hamilton 1997). One program that supplements parole programs is a halfway houses, which is an increasingly familiar program. Basically, halfway houses are designed to facilitate the offender while he/she reintegrates with the
Depending on the crime: misdemeanor, felony, or petty offense; punishment is rendered after a conviction is determined. Mitigation by the defense attorney occurs prior to sentencing. According to The Law Offices of Patrick Maher (n.d.), “after a guilty finding, the judge gives the attorney an opportunity to speak on behalf of the client. This is called mitigation, defined as “to make less severe.” This is a very important part of the process and can have a dramatic impact on the judge’s decision.” The crime and circumstance dictates punishment and sentencing. Punishment can include probation, imprisonment, community service, and fines.
If the offender has committed more than one crime he can either do consecutive time which is one sentence after another or concurrent which is the sentence will run at the same time. (Sobiech, 2012) Not all offenders will go to jail, some will have to pay a fine, be put on probation, or a combination of all. “Some cases are appealed and the offender’s attorney must file the appeal. An appeal is to ask a higher court to reverse the decision of a trial court after final judgment. No new evidence can be entered during an appeal.” (Hill, 2012) Once the appeal is settled it either gets reversed or stands as is and the offender is sent to start his