intro
Imagine for a moment that you are a criminal court judge. You have three individuals who have been found guilty of their crimes and are awaiting your sentencing decisions. They are:
� John is a seventeen year old who has been convicted of robbing a conven
institutional corrections
Someone in a prison facility today will be in one of two types of prisons.
Detention facilities
handle individuals who have been arrested and are going through processing or awaiting trial. They typically do not house individuals who have already been con
the history of corrections
What do you think life would be like if we didn't have prisons? For a large portion of human history, this was the reality. It wasn't until the Middle Ages that we began to see prisons developing. Societies had jails, but they were largely temporary holdi
the cost of the system
The correctional system, including jails and prisons, account for about 1-3 of the overall costs for the criminal justice system. This includes the cost of housing prisoners, employing prison officials and guards, and other expenditures.
In the United Sta
custody and prisoners
Security is the main aim of all prisons and jails. They contain offenders away from the general society. Prisons spend millions of dollars to secure prisoners each year. They put up walls and fences around the prisons, train correctional officers, and inv
parole
After serving a portion of their sentence, many offenders become eligible for parole.
Parole
is the conditional release of an offender after they have served some of their time. In contrast to probation, which we will discuss below, offenders given parole
alternative punishments to incarceration
While many people are sentenced to prison for the crimes that they commit, some offenders are given other types of punishments. Like incarceration, these different types of punishments have a variety of advantages and disadvantages for society and individ
probation
Many of you are more than likely familiar with the practice of probation as it has been commonly used for quite some time.
Probation
is the release of an offender into the community under the supervision of someone else and on the condition that the offen
intermediate sanctions
Some offenders are given sentences that are seen as falling between probation and incarceration. These sentences include fines, electronic monitoring, and community service. At times, these sentences are combined with probation. The idea behind these alte
quiz ?'s
T/F: Penitentiaries came to be known by this name because it was believed that the offenders were doing penitence for their criminal acts.
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T/F: Jails are facilities that hold individuals for up to one year and are administered by local officials.
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