● Sat in on parole hearings with hearing examiners and overlooked the critical process of recommending to grant or deny parole to be under supervised release ● Developed emails to request victim's information from the United States Attorney Office for the notifications process regarding offenders being released to supervision ● Gained access to high security USPC Apps to facilitate an easier way analyze and acquire information upon cases ● Attendance at professional meetings while enduring in group discussion contributing scholarly opinions and feedback ● Assembled and sent out notification emails to offenders CSO’s to notify them of offenders parole hearing ● Created, processed, and issued out subpoenas to witnesses and victims to appear in court utilizing an internal database called prisoners scheduling ● …show more content…
● Experienced a Medium correctional institution in Petersburg, VA for a knowledgeable tour ● Conducted subpoena cancellation letters through a database called Offender Management System (OMS); Document generator (DG) ● Worked side by side and observed colleagues perform their daily duties in references to offenders, victims, and
Everyday crimes are committed. Some of these offenses committed by perpetrators are more severe than others, and cause the individuals who carry out the crimes to be sentenced to time in the county or prison facilities. At the forefront of protecting these criminals from committing more crimes and jeopardizing the public’s safety are correctional officers. The main goal of corrections work is the safe and secure management and rehabilitation of justice-involved individuals, whether in locked facilities or within community supervision programs (Denhof, 1). Although, correctional officer’s sole job is to provide care, custody, and control for perpetrators, correctional officers have another job. That task is not to become subdued by the stress
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the “Letter From Birmingham Jail” on April 16, 1963 and it began a huge transformation for the Civil Rights Movement. In his letter he is basically responding to an advertisement from the Birmingham news. He was extremely reasonable and modest all throughout his letter. He goes into great detail about how even though the protestors at the movement were breaking federal laws but, their actions obeyed the moral law. When he said this in his letter he was referring to St. Augustine because he says “An unjust law is no law at all”. (King Jr., para.14). It was a nonviolent campaign and there were 4 basic steps being followed, “collection of facts to determine whether injustices
* The author will determine courtroom groups, how the groups interact daily, and recommend changes to the groups. The author will also describe prosecutor roles and the cases he pursues. Finally, the author will elaborate on the funnel of criminal justice with the backlog among the courtroom group, the court system, give an example, and explain how to eliminate backlog cases.
According to Corrections Today, day reporting centers are facilities utilized in rehabilitating mostly offenders on probation, in providing assistance in counseling and social skills on a daily basis. The day reporting center is an intermediate sanction that is cost effective and serves as a punishment to the offender in a rehabilitative manner as well as displaying safety to the public (Siegel & Bartollas, 2014). The day reporting centers are a different method in rehabilitating and educating offenders versus historical methods of punishment imposed on people. In conjunction with day reporting centers, electric monitoring home detention programs were utilized in the 1980's and are increasing as both are intermediate sanctions (Sudipto & Barton, 2006).
Nitonya has been a Member of the Pretrial Services team since we established the team and since then she has been an exceptional worker and she has met expectations this year. Nitonya as a Court Services Officer 2 serves as one of our trainers. Throughout the year, she has developed training material that has helped the team tremendously. She has mastered the pretrial services Monitoring system being able to serve as the main trainer for violations of Monitoring and electronic monitoring cases. Nitonya attended multiple trainings that prepared her to manage the BI system and be our go to person for questions regarding defendants on electronic monitoring. Nitonya has been assigned additional duties as the violations coordinator. As of now,
The program itself involves three different areas under the branch. These areas are Intensive Supervision/Electronic Monitoring (EM), Intensive community Program (IC), and the Bail Verification and Supervision Program (BV). The Intensive Supervision/Electronic Monitoring program is a sentencing release option that provides intensive planning, high levels of supervision, surveillance and control (CSRS, 2012) The program is designed for those who would otherwise be sentenced to incarceration, so by keeping them in the community, they are given opportunities to participate in re-integration planning with members from the community and their families. Referrals to this program can only be made by a court judge, prosecutor, defense counsel or probation officer and can only be ordered by the court (CSRS, 2012). Like the EM program, The Intensive Community Program provides re-integration opportunities to individuals rather than incarceration under intense supervision. The Bail Verification program also provides an alternative to incarceration while the individual is pending trial or sentencing. All of these programs are designed to promote community integration under intense supervision. Service providers are used in both urban and rural settings. Services such as transportation are more important for rural areas, as programming, education, and employment are
He explained that many of the people that he face in doing his job make it especially hard to compartmentalize convicts characteristics and charges versus the fact that they are nonetheless human beings – and with that must be treated accordingly. Of course, there is extensive training prior to becoming an active employee. Training continues on the job after the fact. Initially, he found it the most difficult to know that some of these inmates were child molesters and rapists, and he was, by law required to treat every inmate professionally and equally. In addition, in order to gain the respect needed from each inmate he had to first show them respect. Earning their trust was the key to
Martin Luther King was a very important person in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. King among many others was a true Civil Rights activist. Dr. King is also known for his famous “I have a dream” speech. King was also known for a letter he wrote while confined in prison. Dr. King’s letter titled, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, was written in the 1960s. The letter is written in response to the criticism of eight white clergy men. This letter has been found important throughout history because it expresses King’s feelings toward the unjust events and it is an example of a well-written argument. Most importantly, this letter explains current events in Birmingham in 1963 as well as in the rest of America and it demonstrates the approach Reverend King took throughout the whole civil-rights movement of 1950s and 1960s.
The Federal Prison System hearing is the meeting that I have chosen to watch. This hearing involves the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and took place on August 4th, 2015 at Dirksen Senate Office Building. Two panels, one including advocates and the other members of the Justice Department, testified on the overall effectiveness of our nations federal prison system. Piper Kerman, the author of “Orange Is the New Black”, made an appearance and shared her experiences in prison.
Respondent, Killeen Independent School District (“KISD” or “District”), submits its response (“Response”) to Petitioners’ Motion Requesting Evidentiary Hearing and Ruling on Statue of Limitations (“Motion”) and the District’s Motion to Dismiss (“MTD”) Petitioners’ understood Motion to Toll the Statute of Limitations in the above-entitled and numbered case.
A wide range of diversity in the field of criminal justice studies is of great importance. As a second-year graduate student, I was given an opportunity to work closely with U.S Probation and Pretrial Services as an intern. This internship allowed me to further my knowledge in correctional studies and provided the necessary resources to complete my master’s thesis. I was also exposed to various policies and procedures pertaining to probation practices while gaining a vast amount of knowledge assisting with investigations, liaisons between state and local agencies, and the intricacies of offender case management. Furthermore, I was able to form close relationships with employees of the agency who have assisted in my current career endeavors.
On 04/10/2018 I received an informal complaint from you, dated 04/10/2018. The topic of your informal complaint was a missing hobby craft that you claim to have dropped off at the Santa Cruz Unit programs office to COIII Keaton. In your complaint you stated that on March 1st you gave COIII Keaton a painting that you wanted to be included in a Tedx logo contest that was being held on March 2nd. You stated the painting needed to be turned into COIV Contreras, who was not in the programs office when you dropped the painting. You stated that COIII Keaton took possession of your painting, and told you that he would take it to COIV Contreras. You stated that on April 6th, Inmate Mounla #140057 informed you that your painting was lost, and that she confirmed this by asking COIV Contreras, COIV Flores, COIII Keaton, and Deputy Warden Theodore. You stated that inmate Mounla informed you that COIII Keaton stated that he did receive your painting, and that he immediately put it on COIV Contreras desk. Your proposed resolution was for your painting to be located.
In his speech, in order to back up his basic structure King uses rhetorical modes, one of which is pathos, or the mode of utilizing human emotions, by making his audience no longer hate Negroes and instead hate racism and wish for a new, better world, which is part of the structure of his essay. King tries his best in the speech to make the audience sympathize with the Negroes, dislike racism and then be filled with hope of a new world without racism by using strong adjectives and metaphors. For example, King constantly describes the Negroes as being “crippled” by the “manacles of segregation” and “chains of discrimination.” Through this, King makes the audience feel that the Negroes are in great calamity; as if the Negroes had committed a crime and have to be restrained, something which King emphasizes on when he compares the situation of the Negroes as to being stranded on a “lonely island of poverty” while everybody else around them are indulging in a “ocean of material prosperity.” Therefore, through this, the audience realizes how it is not because the Negroes are stupid that they live in poverty, but because the white American society is literally holding them back.
Parole is the release of a prisoner by the decision of a paroling authority (Mackenzie, 2002). The offender is then required to remain under the observation of a parole officer who monitors the offender 's obedience with rules of conduct that are imposed by the parole board (Mackenzie, 2002). Parole is actually regarded as a back-end program that works in conjunction with the community (Mackenzie, 2002). Parole is actually similar to probation in that it follows a term of incarceration (Mackenzie, 2002). There are specific conditions which parole can be applied. Violations of these rules may result in re-imprisonment forced to return to prison to serve out the length of their original sentence from the date of release (Mackenzie, 2002). There are currently over five million people who are being supervised by the criminal justice system in the United States (Bureau of
A Corrections Officer has many duties to consider as they manage the activities of inmates. They are charged with the responsibilities of conducting head counts, monitoring recreational activities, and supervising their work assignments while maintaining a safe environment ensuring the welfare of those who are incarcerated in the correctional facility and employed there, as well as protect the safety of the public communities. They are investigators trained to search for illegal or prohibited goods smuggled into the institution, respond to riots, transport inmates and write reports. Although the job of an officer is challenging still the manner in which they ought to interact with the inmates should exemplify a standard of discipline that displays ethical professionalism, and respect at all times.