Parole

has the final say in any case. However, cases dealing with the death penalty take more time than other cases, a Colorado study “ revealed that capital proceedings require six times more days in court and take much longer to resolve than life-without-parole (LWOP),” (Costs of Death Penalty. 2016), after all sentencing a person to a life in prison is different from that of taking the life of an individual. Jury selection has to be made carefully, eliminating any potential bias jurors. One is that…

The parole officer will be able to drug test the people who are suspected of using drugs before or even after court. There was a group of police officers that came up with the program Drug Abuse Recognition (DAR). But there is a problem when it comes to drug testing while people are on parole. “She took him into custody and conducted a urine test to show presumptive results of drug presence. However…

be in effect after the 2015 year. This criminal act should not be taken lightly and the punishment should be no different than that given to an adult. According to The Rest of Their Lives: without parole for Child Offenders in the United States, 93 percent of youth offenders serving life without parole were convicted of murder. The report also investigated further into this number and found that 26 percent of those juveniles were convicted of “felony murder,” which means that anyone involved in…

Capital punishment is the penalty of death for crimes such as murder, treason, espionage, and, with certain cases, rape and has been around since the colonies. The Death Penalty Information Center says, “The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608” (“Introduction to Death Penalty”). It also says that in the late 1700s, the United States had an abolitionism movement that created a reduction on capital punishment…

statistics have shined light on the success of the death penalty. Stop and think for a second. Imagine if the death penalty was nonexistent in our states and suppose the maximum punishment was life without parole. What is preventing an inmate that is serving this life sentence with no chance of parole for murdering other prisoners? In one of Slambroucks articles, he mentions that “there is an increasing rate of violence in our U.S. prisons.” To be more specific, the author disclosed one of the…

This essay analyzes the opinion editorial “No on Prop 62, Yes on Prop 66,” which was published on OsideNews.com. Proposition 62 aims to repeal death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole, while proposition 66 is designed to shorten the amount of time that legal challenges to death sentences take to a maximum of five years. In her statement, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert declares her stance on death penalty in an attempt to convince…

Sentencing a juvenile life in prison without parole is depriving them of their rights and is clearly hypocritical. The minority who are pro sentencing them to life without parole don't take into consideration the possibility there is in enlightening these kids in becoming better citizens and learning from their mistakes. The reason why I consider the sentencing hypocritical is due to the way society treats juveniles and classifies them as “kids” until they commit a crime. I am in full agreement…

the stranger reveals that he is an undercover police officer, and that the homeless man is under arrest for distribution of marijuana. The entire situation was a set-up, and he was taken to prison. The man was sentenced to life in prison without parole, simply for attempting to sell an extremely small amount of weed to survive. Unfortunately, this is a true story. In an article in “The Daily Beast”, Abby Haglage informed the…

That judges use probation and community services as an alternative to prison. Legislators continue to work on adopting sentencing reforms to reduce the length of sentences. Parole boards are given authority to release and supervise prisoners early who pose little danger to society. Also that parole boards sanction technical parole violators example (those who fail to report) outside of…

Following the introduction of the brain-disease model of addiction, proponents and opponents have emerged to argue for or against a neurocentric view of addiction and the importance of brain circuitry in treating addiction. The following discussion will discuss the societal pros and cons of labeling addiction a brain disease and evaluate whether brain circuitry is necessary for the treatment of addiction in order to illuminate the benefits and drawbacks of the brain-disease model for individuals…