In many other cases, intermediate sanctions are used to keep prison facility overcrowding to a minimum. Kerry Hosking, writer of the “What Are Intermediate Sanctions? The Criminal Justice System in the United States” article describes intermediate sanctions as an “alternate punishments used to monitor offenders who are neither under the usual restrictions of probation, or incarcerated.” The sanctions are often used for punishment reasons, and in many cases we’ll see them in effect on the news when involving celebrities. In addition, they provide a vehicle for prosecutors and sentencing boards to engineer specific desired outcomes for each case. (McGarry, 1993,p. 18). A good example for explaining this form punishment would be Lindsey Lohan.
