Mr. President, on July 18, 2014 the United States Sentencing Commission amended policy 1B1.10. This amendment, amendment 782, reduced the offense levels of federal inmates with statutory mandatory minimum penalties in 2D1.1, by two levels. In doing so, the Commission created eligibility for early release for an estimated 46,000 offenders, 400 of which are from the State of Iowa. This amendment will be applied retroactively, and the effective date of sentence reductions will be enacted on November 1, 2015. The Commission stated that, “the purpose of the amendment is to reflect the Commission’s determination that setting the base offense levels above mandatory minimum penalties is no longer necessary and that a reduction would be an appropriate step toward alleviating the overcapacity of the federal prisons.” I fear that in an effort to alleviate capacity issues, some, offenders will be eligible for release that have an extensive criminal history and are not non-violent offenders. …show more content…
is one of many individuals that will qualify for a reduction in sentence. Mr. Ortiz Jr. was most recently sentenced as the leader of a drug operation, with the intent to distribute marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines. He was also sentenced for the possession of a firearm in relation to drug trafficking. During his most recent trial Mr. Ortiz Jr knowingly, and intentionally, attempted to kill Daniel Andrew Stevens in order to prevent his testimony in the trial against Ortiz. The eligibility of criminals with this type of criminal history and violent tendencies should be scrutinized and questioned
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While it is apparent why companies involved in the prison industry would support or even push for such a law, they are not the sole cause of the making of this law. There are three main groups outside the prison industry who, due to knowledgeable beneficiary intentions or misinformation, strengthen the strict law against crime and cause the overpopulation and long sentencing that in turn make the prison industry profitable. One of the ulterior motivated
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With the objective to craft a policy package that would guarantee certainty in sentencing and controlling corrections costs while protecting and improving public safety, the task force forwarded its outcomes and 19 policy recommendations to the Mississippi Legislature in December 2013. The approvals for House Bill 585 were signed into legislation and introduced to prevent the anticipated prison growth over the next 10 years. By saving Mississippi taxpayers $266 million in operating costs while safely reducing the prison population below current levels, a successful probation and parole intervention was executed. The law also allowed the reallocation of The Department of Corrections transition from prisons
In 2006, the Colorado Legislature passed a reform bill changing juvenile life without parole to 40 years before parole eligibility, but the bill did not make the reform retroactive, so the reform does not apply to any juveniles sentenced before 2006.
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Rivers can help develop different civilizations such as the Nile River. This great river measures thirty five hundred miles through many different countries (Orlin, 2010). The Nile helped to bring life, security and dictated how the people planned activities throughout the year. For example, the farmers would seed the land after the Nile would start swell and then recede to its normal banks (Orlin, 2010). This helped the seedlings to grow and then produce bountiful harvest. The Nile provided security for the Egyptian people by allowing the reeds and natural grasses around the bank of the river (Orlin, 2010). This would allow any enemy that wanted to attack to not
By the end of the year 2013, California must reduce its state prison population by 46,000 inmates, which is at least 137.5 percent of its design capacity intended to hold 80,000 inmates only (Galik, 2013). With the staggering record of prison inmates, resources have become limited, creating a bigger concern for the health and safety of inmates and prison employees. If there are no solutions to reduce the prison population from overcrowding, one other major concern many people fear is the early release of serious offenders back into society.
Today, more than 2 million Americans are incarcerated in either a state facility, federal correctional facility or a local installation (Batey,2002). Due to longer sentences, incorporating harsh sentencing guidelines, and mandatory minimum punishments (NeSmith,2015). With each inmate costing taxpayers an average of $30,000 annually. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 were increased sentences for a broad range of offenses, as well as establishing federal penalties for most murders and a large number of other crimes already subject to state law (Batey,2002). In addition to reducing the discretion of state judicial systems; as well as 85 percent of sentence satisfaction and establishing a mandatory life sentence for those convicted of three serious violent crimes or drug offenses (NeSmith,2015). .
Since the mid-2000s, states, as differed as New York, Kansas, and Texas, have rolled out genuine authoritative improvements to annul the mandatory least sentences connected with the War on Drugs, the essential donor to mass detainment (Subramanian and Moreno, 2014). These states get the opportunity to be normal examination opportunities to inspect the effects of law changes on decarceration and recidivism. Savvy decarceration will involve additional states reviewing out of line sentencing rules and their undulating sway.
Nevertheless, criminal justice reform may be the exception to the rule of gridlock in Congress, as a reform bill with broad bipartisan support was introduced in the Senate in the fall of 2015. The ‘‘Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015’’ contains a broad array of changes to the justice system on the federal level, including:
This is amending Title 8 of Judgement and Execution of Part 2 of Criminal Procedure of the Penal Code, our amendment will address the issue of prison over crowding by finding alternative treatment for people convicted of non-non-non drug related crimes . This means that people who have no serious, violent or sex related crimes and who have drug addiction may be placed into a rehabilitation program instead of spending time in jail. However exceptions are made for people convicted of 1st degree burglary into residential areas without the use of weapons, allowing for program placement. This bill focuses on second or third time drug offenders who have displayed drug addiction. Offenders will be sent to rehab in hopes of helping these people to
Throughout the entirety of Task 1 I faced many challenges and I was also gifted with many positives. One of the first few things that went quite well for me was that when I was put into my group most of us had already worked together prior to this task. Also being that we had already worked together we knew what we were interested in, so this made choosing our topic rather easy. Then we decided which lense we would each be tackling this process went almost just as easily however we did have to do some preliminary research prior to setting our lenses in stone. This was because we wanted to make sure that when we did each choose our lense that we did not in any way overlap each other's information in what we were planning to discuss. So then