Corrections Current Trends

When it comes to prison sentencing there be a bunch of trends to go from, probably the main tabooline you could say is the sentencing models these models are a basic outline of whats termination to happen to an offender while being sentenced.These are the six options which include capital penalizement- for want murder offenders which includes the death penalty only in some states though, impoundment -for those who commit violent abuse and so forth usually sent to state or federal prison doggeder that iodine year, short term confinement -for minor offenders those petty crimes such as petty theft and so on normally less than a year served in county, intermediate sanctions- falls between probation and imprisonment which I would say is on the fence could go either way prison or probation which includes sept arrest and electronic monitoring, then(prenominal) theirs probation which is a alternative of prison in which the offender is monitored within the community, and then theirs economic sanctions- which I would say an offender like this would be due to vandalism or some issue in that nature, in economic sanctions the offender is ordered to pay restitution or a fine for their crime.Pretrial divagation is a keen system for offenders who are not constant offenders, for instance here in Odessa TX they study what I would call a pretrial diversion program which is called teenaged court and in teen court offenders for lets say theft well instead of it going down in the records they chose to do some community service and avoid trial and a criminal record simply this type of program is only offered to teens. For those who have the option of pretrial diversion it is a pretty computable system which allows first time offenders in most cases to stay out of the system. Plea bargaining is a really good trend in sentencing, because excuse bargaining is an agreement in which the defendant decides to plea guilty to the offense in return the defendant gets a lesser sentencing.Plea bargaining is a good system why because if the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser offense not only does it compose time without having to go to court and the expenses they would have to put out their but most generation if the defendant know that he or she did it and them pleading guilty to a lesser offense to cut tooshie time in prison or probation most times they will take the bargain. Another extensive trend in sentencing is the three strikes laws which basically states that felons who commit three felonies are incarcerated for a very(prenominal) long time sometimes even life in prison this trend is good because most times it will keep repeat offenders from committing crimes I guess the thought of getting that third strike and going to prison for possibly life would be a really strong motivation to stay out of trouble and keep doing good.Then again this three strikes law could not be a good thing for instance in the text it talks about jerry Williams who ha d a record of two prior felony convictions involving craze when he stole piece of pizza without a weapon from four children, then the judge at a lower place macrocosmdatory California law, had to sentence Williams to twenty five years in prison. I understand this man had a record and was on the verge of the third strike but I dont think that sentencing Mr. Williams to twenty five years in prison for a pizza was really necessity that five dollar pizza now has cost the state an estimated 500,000 for the time that Williams is going to be incarcerated a simply being locked up for even a year in county would I think be more suitable and cost friendly in which saves the state a lot of money.Drug courts is also other great trend in sentencing because in do drugs court offenders who have had or have a problem with run in with the law due to drugs can choose to get help and drug court main goal you could say is to get the offender help and back into the community unclouded and on their way unlike traditional courts, drug court is not so much to punish the offender but to change the offender according to the text drug courts have proved very promising, and I would say a very good solution on handling a diametric kind of offender so that they wouldnt have to go into a regular court and by chance receive six months or maybe even a worse sentence but try to rehabilitate the offenders who need help and get them back into the community and on the right track. These trends that I listed are only a few that help the sentencing progress move along there are a lot more trends but these are only a few with a slight overview of how they shape and what goes on in the few trends that were listed.