... any other. With prisons flowing full of criminals, alternative sentencing has been the top choice when dealing with adult violent offenders. Probation population has become almost two times the size compared to prison population. The number of offenders has doubled when statistics are compared over that past decades. Probation officers today deal with supervisions like house arrests and electric monitoring. These enforcements in ... , does not show the process of cases that are assigned to probation. Illinois research gives reliable information that other states could see similarities. -...

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... handgun. Handguns are easy to conceal due to their smallness, and discreetness. (Long 25) With the use of hand guns the number of Americans who were under thirty-five has doubled within twenty years. (Strahinich 4) Every two minutes a person is shot by a handgun and every fourteen minutes a person dies from a gunshot wound. (Levine 27) " Homicide is the 11th leading cause of ... 29) "Over the past twenty years, gun ownership in the United States has been on the rise-along with the population."" (Strahinich 3) This correlation shows that in no time soon will the death rates in America de...

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... result in a major decrease in juvenile offenses. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reveals that between 1999 and 2000, homicides committed by youths under the age of 18 more than doubled. The cause of this sudden rise in juvenile offenses remains unknown, but the U.S. Department of Justice believes that alcohol and drugs play a major role in the lives of teenagers in ... our day of age. If punishments were made more severe, the use of illegal drugs and alcohol among the juvenile population who commit crimes would also decrease, as shown proven in a 1995 Annual Report on Drug's a...

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... went into a local store to try to get a job. He was refused work. Out of desperation he reached into the cash register and took five dollars. The store was also doubled as the town's post office. Henry Young was tried and convicted of a federal crime; mail robbery. Henry's sister was taken to live in an orphanage. He would never see her ... were Henry Young and Rufus McCain. McCain betrayed his fellow inmates by tipping off the associate warden Mr. Glenn. He was rewarded for his betrayal and left in the general population while Henry Young was sent to solitary. The federal guidelines re...

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