Assignment:
Per Professor Esmail:
Assignment please include an Introduction and Conclusion. You also want to include 7 academic references which include academic books or peer reviewed journal articles. When you cite a peer reviewed academic journal article the citation would include the author, year, and name of the article, name of the journal, volume, issue, and page number. Please make sure that you're OV score is under 24%. If you find that it is higher please revise and resubmit before I grade it. There are severe penalties and consequences with high OV scores.
• I recently developed a policy regarding the three strikes laws in the State of California. Now, the state has decided to try to revamp other systems within the government to accommodate more diverse populations. The three strikes laws are now causing a problem for the correctional institutions in the United States. Now, there is an older inmate population because of the aging of the population.
• Locate and analyze the current problems pertaining to the three strikes laws and incarceration.
• For this assignment, you will develop a policy change to address prisoners who have been sentenced under these three strike laws and have reached the age of 60.
• In your policy, address the following:
• Describe your proposed policy in detail, and provide the specific language you would propose to be part of any statute or regulation that results from your proposed policy.
• What information could you provide to the community and the state legislature to implement such a policy change?
• What would be the advantages of this policy? Explain and provide support for your arguments.
• What would be the disadvantages? Explain and provide support for your arguments.
• You should use the same format that you used for your Week 4 Key Assignment Draft policy.
• Address the following in 500 words:
• What effect would your corrections policy have on the state budget and state taxes? Explain.
• How have you ensured that your second policy effectively utilized the feedback you received for your three strikes policy from Week 4? In which I received no feedback from no one.
• Be specific and explain in detail.
• Remember to support your policy with scholarly and academic resources.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.