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Extractions: In Wisconsin, a group of lawmakers led passage of truth-in-sentencing in 1998. "Many of us, myself included, were part of ALEC," says the bill's author, Republican state representative Scott Walker. "Clearly ALEC had proposed model legislation," Walker recalls. "And probably more important than just the model legislation, [ALEC] had actually put together reports and such that showed the benefits of truth-in-sentencing and showed the successes in other states. And those sorts of statistics were very helpful to us when we pushed it through, when we passed the final legislation." See how the Corrections Corporation of America benefits from its involvement with the American Legislative Council. (Will open new window) "I don't know that they know anything about sentencing," Dickey says. "They know how to build prisons, presumably, since that's the business they're in. They don't know anything about probation and parole. They don't know about the development of alternatives. They don't know about how public safety might be created and defended in communities in this state and other states." The Wisconsin Department of Corrections says the truth-in-sentencing law will add to the state's prison population in the years to come. A recent analysis by the state estimated that the 990 inmates imprisoned just in the first 21 months after the law took effect would spend 18,384 additional months in jail, costing taxpayers an extra $41 million.
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Extractions: Truth-In-Sentencing Compiled by Patricia Helgerson, December 1999 "The 1995 NCCD National Prison Population Forecast: The Cost of Truth-in-Sentencing Law." James Austin and Michael A. Jones, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, NCCD Focus, July 1995. (365.4/N211) In 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice noted that prison admissions had gone down but prison populations had gone dramatically up since 1990. This report shows that prison populations will continue to increase due to truth-in-sentencing and three-strikes laws by comparing 23 states that employ NCCD's forecast methodology. 1996 National Survey of State Sentencing Structures. U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998. (365.4/X26) Published in 1998, this document examines various sentencing practices in the states including truth-in-sentencing. This study is a follow-up to a study conducted in 1994. Criminal Penalties Study Committee Final Report, Thomas H. Barland, Wisconsin Criminal Penalties Study Committee, 1999. (365.4/W7h) The committee was directed to study changes made by 1997 Wisconsin Act 283 and make recommendations for a sentencing guideline system. A large document, including dissenting statements and complete text of proposed legislation, it is also available on the Internet at
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Extractions: showDate(11) Issues select an issue Affirmative Action Census CR Enforcement Criminal Justice Disability Education GLBT Hate Crimes Housing/Lending Human Rights Immigration Indigenous Peoples Info/Comm/Tech Judiciary Labor/ Working Families Poverty/Welfare Religious Freedom Social Security/Seniors Voting Rights Home Donate Now! About Campaigns ... Hate Crimes Hate Crimes Why You Should Care Status Report Why You Should Care Hate crimes remain a festering and horrifying problem in the Unites States. Although there are laws on the books to deter hate crimes and protect their victims, significant gaps remain unfilled Hate crimes are distinguished from bias motivated incidents, which, while not falling under the umbrella of a criminal act, are often precursors to actual hate crimes or contribute to a general atmosphere of hostility. The killings of James Byrd and Matthew Shepard , among other senseless acts of hatred, remind Americans that violence based on racial and other prejudices still occurs. Other brutal examples include a spree of hate-motivated shootings over the 1999 July 4th weekend in Illinois and Indiana, the murder of two gay men in California, and arson attacks on Sacramento synagogues. In August of 1999, a man with ties to white supremacist organizations is alleged to have opened fire at a Jewish daycare center in Los Angeles and murdered a Filipino-American postal worker. And on July 4, 2000, J.R. Warren
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Extractions: The Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy is committed to bringing information on sentencing to the public, researchers, policy makers and practitioners from a range of viewpoints. Please keep in mind, the SCCSP does not review, edit, or endorse all items accessible from these pages. American Judicature Society The American Judicature Society is a nonpartisan organization with a national membership of judges, lawyers, and non-legally trained citizens interested in the administration of justice. Through research, educational programs, and publications, AJS's primary areas of focus are: Judicial Independence, Judicial Conduct and Ethics, Judicial Selection, The Jury, Court Administration, and Public Understanding of the Justice System. Bureau of Justice Statistics The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the United States Department of Justice, is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to Federal, State, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded. Bureau of Justice Assistance The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the United States Department of Justice. The mission of the BJA is to provide leadership and assistance in support of local criminal justice strategies to achieve safe communities. BJA's overall goals are to: (1) reduce and prevent crime, violence, and drug abuse and (2) improve the functioning of the criminal justice system.
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Extractions: Up For a day by day account of life in the Bermuda Narcotics department, read an official diary: Prison Statistics Why such a high incidence of imprisonment? The following appeared in a Bermuda newspaper, an article by By Tony McWilliam and Don Burgess: Bermuda's a world leader in prison numbers BERMUDA is a world leader when it comes to locking up criminals. The island tops a global league table for imprisonment, beating out even the U.S. and South Africa. Black Bermudian males, however, are far less likely to be in prison than their U.S. counterparts. Figures show there are currently about 280 people incarcerated in Bermuda at Westgate, the Prison Farm and the Co-Ed Facility, including 25 women and some 49 foreigners. That translates to 48 people per 10,000 people in Bermuda's population, compared to 43 in the U.S., 33 in South Africa and 10 in the U.K.. If non-Bermudian inmates are excluded, the figure for Bermuda drops to 39 per 10,000, which puts the island in second place, below the U.S. A cross section of observers yesterday cited flaws in the education and criminal justice systems and a lack of commitment by law makers to endorse alternative sentencing and support families.
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Extractions: Community Resources ... Helpful Information Crime Victim Compensation Current Case Status Types Arizona Constitutional Rights for Victims of Crime Information for Victims of Crime Victims' Rights Under Arizona Statute and Court Rule ... Restitution CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION: The State of Arizona provides Crime Victim Compensation to lawful United States residents. Funds to pay crime victim compensation claims come from a penalty of $100 per felony count, assessed at the time of sentencing. You may apply to the Maricopa County Crime Victim Compensation Board for compensation for your out-of-pocket costs. You may be eligible for compensation if: The crime was reported within 72 hours.
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Extractions: Can order now from http://www.Amazon.com Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it cause more citizens to harm each other? Wherever people happen to fall along the ideological spectrum, their answers are all too often founded upon mere impressionistic and anecdotal evidence. In this direct challenge to conventional wisdom, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime. In this timely and provocative work he comes to a startling conclusion: more guns mean less crime. Lott's sources are broad and inclusive, and his evidence the most extensive yet assembled, taking full account of the FBI's massive yearly crime figures for all 3,054 U.S. counties over eighteen years, the largest national surveys on gun ownership, as well as state police documents on illegal gun use. His unexpected findings reveal that many of the most commonly held assumptions about gun control and its crime-fighting efficacy are simply wrong. Waiting periods, gun buybacks, and background checks yield virtually no benefits in crime reduction. Instead, Lott argues, allowing law-abiding citizens to legal concealed handguns currently represents the most cost-effective methods available for reducing violent crime. In what may be his most controversial conclusion, Lott finds that mass public shootings, such as the infamous examples of the Long Island Railroad by Colin Ferguson or the 1996 Empire State Building shooting, are dramatically reduced once law-abiding citizens in a state are allowed to carry concealed handguns.
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Extractions: Vote of the House Judiciary Committee on H.R. 2259 In 1990, the number of people sent to state and federal prisons for drug offenses exceeded the number of offenders sent to prison for violent crimes. Federal drug cases increased 280 percent during the last ten years and now account for more than 62 percent of the federal prison population (U.S. Sentencing Commission, 1995.) Drug offenders currently make up 62 percent of the federal inmate population, up from 22 percent in 1980. In fact, sentence lengths for first time, nonviolent drug offenses often exceed sentence lengths for violent offenders. With 1.3 million Americans behind bars, the U.S. rate of incarceration is 519 per 100,000 people. The U.S. rate has increased by 22 percent since 1989, and is generally 5-8 times the rate of most industrialized nations. (The Sentencing Project, Americans Behind Bars: The International Use Of Incarceration, 1992-93)
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Extractions: V. Federal Initiatives The Federal government has an essential leadership role to play in confronting criminal activity motivated by prejudice and promoting prejudice reduction initiatives for schools and the community. A. The Hate Crime Statistics Act (28 U.S.C. 534) Enacted in 1990, the HCSA requires the Justice Department to acquire data on crimes which "manifest prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity" from law enforcement agencies across the country and to publish an annual summary of the findings. In the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, Congress expanded coverage of the HCSA to require FBI reporting on crimes based on "disability."
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Extractions: Understanding Key Elements of Hate Crimes Legislation Overview of Hate Crimes Laws Currently 22 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) punish hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation and four states plus D.C. include punishment for crimes based on gender identity. A total of 43 states plus D.C. have provisions in their criminal codes that deal with some form of bias-motivated or hate crime. The common denominator for all of these laws is bias-motivated criminal conduct that carries some form of additional or heightened penalty. Put another way, there are three key elements to all hate crimes laws: (1) bias motivation, (2) criminal conduct and (3) penalty enhancement. Based on these three elements, the scope of hate crimes laws varies from state to state, providing a wide range of ways in which a penalty enhancement is structured and applied. Some states, such as Tennessee (and the federal hate crimes law) tie bias-motivation to some interference with a state- or federally granted right in order to prosecute someone for a hate crime. This means, for example, that a person who assaults an Hispanic person to prevent that person from voting-which is a federal right-could be subject to prosecution under Tennessee's hate crimes statute. While most states require motivation against certain people based on very specific characteristics, a few states, including Texas and Georgia, require only that a person be motivated by prejudice. Some states provide that a wide range of specified crimes or that all crimes defined by the state may be prosecuted as a hate crime if bias is evident. Other states, such as New York, limit prosecution of a hate crime to only a few or even one specific underlying crime. Almost all penalty provisions have the same effect: to punish to a greater degree crime that is motivated by bias. The differences are in how the specific statutes arrive at that effect.
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Extractions: Today is a special day for 1,600 men and women: They are being released from a state or federal prison. Tomorrow will be a special day for another 1, 600 people. As will be the day after that. Some 600,000 inmates will leave prison this year more than the population of Washington, D.C. After quadrupling its imprisonment rate in just 30 years the United States now has 700 people of every 100,000 under lock and key, five times the proportion in Britain, the toughest sentencer in Western Europe the world's most aggressive jailer must now confront the iron law of imprisonment: that those who go in almost always come out. The result is a society that, statistically at least, is beginning to look a little like early Australia. Nearly 1 in 8 American men has been convicted of a felony. One black man in 5 has been to prison, 1 in 3 has been convicted of a felony. These convicts, particularly those who have been to prison, contribute little good to the places where they live. Two-thirds of ex- prisoners are rearrested within three years. Prisons are a breeding-ground for terrible diseases, both medical (such as AIDS) and social (the Aryan Brotherhood), that soon spread to the outside world. The high rates of imprisonment are partly related to the number of crimes committed in the United States, but they also reflect a determined policy to increase the number of mandatory sentences, particularly for drug offenses. Since the 1980s, laws have limited the discretion both of judges to make the punishment fit the crime and of parole boards to determine when prisoners are fit to be released. In the 10 years after 1986, the average term in federal prison rose from 39 to 54 months.
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Extractions: T he E FFECTIVE N ATIONAL D RUG C ONTROL S TRATEGY GOAL NUMBER TWO: REDUCE THE HARM CAUSED BY THE "WAR ON DRUGS" OBJECTIVE: MAKE CRIMINAL PENALTIES FIT THE SEVERITY OF THE CRIME Rationale: The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 radically changed sentencing in drug cases. The new law required judges to sentence individuals based on mandatory guidelines, eliminating most judicial discretion. Congress enacted mandatory sentencing statutes as part of the Omnibus Drug Control Act of 1986. Federal judges have strongly opposed mandatory sentencing as have many other law enforcement experts. In fact, every judicial circuit, as well as the Criminal Law Committee of the Judicial Conference and the Federal Courts Study Commission have opposed mandatory minimum sentencing. The combination of stringent guidelines and mandatory sentencing along with similar harsh sentencing penalties adopted by most states has produced a burgeoning rate of incarceration in the United States. Prisons should be a solution of last resort. Addiction is a disease, and no disease, whether it is cancer or addiction, is effectively treated by incarceration. Moreover, our nation's addiction to prison building has contributed to declines in education spending in many states and undermines the global competitiveness of our country. Recommendation 1: End mandatory minimum sentencing (statutory and guideline).
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