Parole

Reform Oversight Committee released a five-year report of the impact made by these reforms. The report showed that the reforms had resulted in savings of over $18 million, an almost 10% decrease in prison populations, and an increase in successful parole and probation outcomes. To build upon this success, legislation was introduced in 2016 to seek more proportional punishment within the state and the legislature has an opportunity to achieve this goal by moving the legislation forward in 2017.…

The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. They created the Innocence Project to help wrongfully accused people get out of jail. They looked at cases where people were wrongfully incarcerated and through DNA, try to help them regain their freedom that they deserve. Their mission statement is “to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment”. Since the Innocence…

The position of Texas Governor, for well over a century, has traditionally been a feeble portion of the state government. A comparison of power between the governor of Texas and the president of the United States reveal the difficulties of the governor to effectively run the state government, as the president does the nation. There are a few key historical events and factors that have led to the weakness of the Texas Governor’s powers today. In order to improve the effectiveness of today’s Texas…

On the fifteenth of June 2012, the Supreme Court decided that juveniles who committed crimes may not be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, even in the cases of murder. The judges concluded with a 5-4 majority that the punishment of life without parole, for a juvenile, violated the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution which banned the use of cruel and unusual punishment. However, the minority opinion stated that any horrific crime committed by a juvenile should always…

• Prison inmates will be assisted in finding a home if they don’t have one. The plan to arrange the staff meetings includes: • Three sessions of staff meeting will be carried out each week. The staff will consist of members from the division parole as well as employees from within the institution. Staff members will be divided into three groups. The three groups will then attend the meeting one by one. • The three meeting session will be held in the morning,…

In 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted of arson and murder that caused the deaths of his three children. In 2004, he was given capital punishment. According to the Texas Forensic Science Commission, it was demonstrated that the evidence had been misinterpreted, and that none of the evidence that had previously been used against Willingham was valid. The new evidence showed that the fire was accidental. As a society, we should not allow capital punishment to be legal in the United States.…

“In the United States each year, children as young as 13 are sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in prison without any opportunity for release” (Peter, 1). Juveniles should not be sentenced to life in prison. During the teenage years teenagers brains are yet to fully mature, and also the courts don’t take the adolescents family life and background and history into consideration. Human brains aren’t fully matured until around the age of 25. “The biggest surprise in the teenage brain…

Of the many cults that have arisen throughout the past century, the cult which was led by Charles Manson, and labeled the Manson Family Cult, is arguably one of the most infamous. One of the definitions of a cult at dictionary.com is “a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader” which describes the group led by Charles Manson (Dictionary.com). Formed in the turbulent…

driving drunk and killing two high school teenagers. I don’t agree with the court’s sentencing on Belew. On May 2, 2012, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Mitchell Kaplan sentenced Kenneth Belew to six years in house of correction and with the chance of parole in two and half years. Belew was sent to prison since he was driving under the influence with six other passengers in his car. Belew and his passenger were coming back from a party; he was driving ninety-one miles per hour and he went…

house hold that they grew up in. What is the best method of rehabilitation? Probation and or parole is the best method in regards to rehabilitation. It is cheaper than keeping someone incarcerated. You will have probation officers checking on them and they know they cannot go anywhere. Here in the United States we have two million people are in jail, and four million are either on probation or parole. What is rehabilitation? The concept of rehabilitation rests on the assumption that criminal…