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Sentencing and Prisons

Sentencing and Prisons. Sentenced Mark Hulett, to 60 days in prison for sexually abusing a child Mark plead guilty to having sexual contact with a girl during a four-year period beginning at age 6. The Judge said he wanted to make sure that he got treatment that is not available behind bars.

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Sentencing and Prisons

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  1. Sentencing and Prisons

  2. Sentenced Mark Hulett, to 60 days in prison for sexually abusing a child • Mark plead guilty to having sexual contact with a girl during a four-year period beginning at age 6. • The Judge said he wanted to make sure that he got treatment that is not available behind bars Judge Edward Cashman

  3. What are the purposes for incarceration?Depends who and when you ask Punishment/Revenge? Rehabilitation? LETS START WITH SOMETHING EASY THE DEATH PENALTY

  4. 1972-Supreme Court suspends use of the death penalty; reenacted in 1975 • the jury first decided guilt and then punishment • History 1809-1956: hanging 1955-1993: lethal gas 1994-present: lethal injection DP only applied with DNA evidence, a video recording of the defendant committing the crime, or a voluntary, videotaped confession. • Feds and the Death Penalty • murder of a government official • kidnapping resulting in death • running of a large-scale drug enterprise • treason

  5. THE HARD TRUTH • 2.1 million prisoners are held in prisons • Drug cases up 280% in the last ten years • 62% of prisoners are drug related convicts

  6. Public Order Includes: weapons, drunk driving, vice, morals and decency charges, and liquor law violations

  7. In most states felons only served 1/5 of actual sentenced time. Truth-in-Sentencing mandates that a felon serve at least 85% of their sentence Reduce the gap between pronounced sentences & actual incarceration time. No more: Good Conduct Credits Parole Truth-in-Sentencing Laws

  8. 15-24 Year-olds Impact Greatly • Targeting young violent offenders for longer terms of incarceration removes at-risk offenders during the period they are most likely to engage in crimes Recidivism (convicts who return to jail) dropped 5%

  9. Mandatory Minimum Sentences • In 1986 Congress made mandatory minimum sentencing laws, which force judges to deliver fixed sentences to individuals convicted of a crime • If you provide prosecutor with "substantial assistance", (information that aids the government in prosecuting other offenders) may defendants reduce their mandatory sentences

  10. Is it Constitutional?

  11. California’s ’94 three strikes law mandates 25 years imprisonment after a third serious felony conviction. Rene Landa Residential burglary ‘72 Residential burglary ‘86 Theft w Prior ’95 YOU’RE OUT! = Life in Prison

  12. INCARCERATION ZONE • IS-IV, IS-III: 24-Hour Restriction Daily Accountability DISCRETIONARY ZONE • IS-II: Standard Supervision • IS-I: Financial Accountability INTERMEDIATE ZONE

  13. ! At 14 he shot his father, stepmother, and13-year-old stepsister in 2004 The teen was convicted February 7 of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. will be in state custody until he is 21 Sweet Kid ? Cody Posey, 16,

  14. Why not treat him as an adult? • Posey's lawyer Gary Mitchell contended that the boy had acted out after years of physical and psychological abuse by his father and stepmother. • The night before the shootings, his father burned him with a welding rod after the teen refused to have sex with his stepmother, Mitchell said.

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