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    Throughout history there have been many laws restricting certain people from voting. Almost all of these laws have been abolished, however, the laws restricting felons from voting are still in place in most locations. Felons should have their voting rights restored to them after being reintegrated into society for a period of time Felons have server their time, and if they are deemed fit re-enter society, they should have the right to vote. Part of the reason felons have their rights removed…

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    Parole And Discrimination

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    William, Being held accountable for your actions is extremely important and obviously the reason why a person is on probation or parole. Wanting to help people should be the number one reason why a person would want to be a probation or parole officer. Having the opportunity to be instrumental in helping a person rebuild their life would be rewarding and fulfilling. I agree with you, I would let the small infractions slide but I would let them know that I am aware of what they did so that…

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    two words are often interchanged, though are very different in their meanings. The type of crime that was committed by the offender is usually what will determine what type of punishment they receive. Probation is usually given for nonviolent, misdemeanor crimes, whereas being sentenced to jail time with the…

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    Many prisoners are put in prison for petty crimes or more serious crimes like felonies and capital crimes witch is just a felony that is more serious and there brought there to be removed from the public because depending on the crime or for some people even any crime people won’t want them in the same area as them because they’re afraid they might do something again and they won’t nothing to do with it so the Government makes laws to make it so if someone commits a crime there either put in…

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    The Influence of Voting Once a citizen reaches a certain age, they are granted the right to vote. The certain age is 18 years old. If a citizen is 18 years old or older and they commit a felony and go to prison, depending on what state they’re is in, their right to vote may be suspended for a certain period of time or taken away completely. I don’t think it is fair how some states take away a felon’s right to vote once they get out of prison. States who enforce laws that take away the right to…

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    Parole is a supervised release of an offender from a correctional facility, which allows the offender to serve the remaining of his or her sentence within the community under specific conditions (Alarid & Del Carmen, 2012). Parole is granted to offenders at the discretion of a parole board after reviewing each individual case (Alarid & Del Carmen, 2012). Probation is a form of criminal sentencing imposed by a judge on an offender for violating the law (Alarid & Del Carmen, 2012). The offender…

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    Policy The Comprehensive Crime Control Act There are currently five million Americans in the criminal justice system that are under community supervision like probation or parole (Walshe, 2012). This equates to approximately 1 in 45 adults. This is nearly double the incarcerated prison population. In 1984, the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, among other things, made probation a stand-alone sentence. This means that probation was no longer only a post-release condition. An offender can now be…

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    Key Points: The defendant, who was an adult criminal justice ASU student instructed a 17-year-old high school student who was her boyfriend to aid her in committing the felony. The defendant had the juvenile accomplice use his body as a shield so as to block her actions from public view as she made her way around my vehicle to cause the criminal damage. When this occurred, another male had attempted to stop the defendant, but the defendant pushed the male friend away and had her juvenile…

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    Mass Incarceration Essay

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    Over the past several years, multitude of legislative bodies have made many attempts to reform their sentencing and incarceration laws to address the problem of mass incarceration of our citizenry. Apparently, some of these efforts have been successful and other not so. In the next few paragraphs I will be analyzing the article “Does Smarter Sentencing Equal Lower Prison Numbers?” Within this analyzation I will give my readers my general reaction of the article. I will also touch on what is…

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    Most of the people would agree that Alex should not vote in favor of continuing to make the payments to the United Peoples Liberation Front. Rule utilitarianism suggests that some classes of actions, like making payments to terrorist organization, are obviously wrong regardless of their consequences as they have negative effect on the general happiness of the society as a whole (Brooks, 137). Therefore, a rule utilitarian would not favor the payments as following the rule, not supporting…

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