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Pt1420 Unit 9 Final Paper

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3. Give an adjoining state's overview for comparison.

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 …show more content…

Parole eligibility is expanded to certain classes of nonviolent offenders. These parole eligibilities are expanded to include nonviolent offenders who were previously ineligible because of sentencing enhancements, such as selling drugs near a school. Allows nonviolent offenders who are otherwise ineligible for parole to petition the sentencing court for eligibility after serving 25 percent of their sentence. Mississippi implements a geriatric parole provision which initiates parole hearings for nonviolent offenders who are 60 years or older and have served at least 10 years in prison. They mandate that the Department of Corrections create case plans for all parole-eligible offenders at admission to ensure needed treatment and services are completed before parole review. Restricts parole hearings to cases in which offenders have failed to comply with their case plans or victims or local law enforcement officials have requested hearings, creating a more predictable rate for paroles granted. Probation is an alternative to incarceration. At the time of a trial, a judge has the sole authority to recommend probation for a defendant. Once someone

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