Response to the following :
Actions for Truth in Sentencing :
1. Are truth-in-sentencing laws a good idea? What are their implications for crime control? for due process? for costs to the public?
Actions for Legal Rights :
2. What difficulties might you, as a correctional officer, foresee in attempting to run your unit of the institution while at the same time upholding the legal rights of the prisoners?
Actions for Probation :
3. How does the use of probation affect the corrections system? Why is it used so extensively?
Actions for Private Prisons :
4. What ethical questions does the emergence of prisons run by private, for-profit organizations raise?
Actions for Women in Prison :
5. What parental rights should prisoners have? Should children be allowed to live in correctional facilities with their mothers? What problems would this practice create?
Actions for People of Color :
6. What are the five main reasons that people of color are over-represented in the criminal justice system? Does over-representation reflect a problem? What, if anything, can be done to change the pattern?
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