The Us Correctional System: Final Essay Draft
The US Correctional System: Final Essay draft
The US correctional system punishes offenders in different ways, because each offense is on a different level some can be felonies and some can be charged as misdemeanors. In our correctional system they punishes offenders, by putting them in jail/prison. But in its early years prison punishments for offenders were cruel. In the early year of the correctional system offenders punishments were very different from their punishments now in this day and age.
“Our correctional system punishes offenders, by putting them in jail, or in prison. In the early times, before prisons punishments were often cruel and torturous. The unsettling description of a man broken in half on a rack in the early 1700’s is just one of the ways crimes were punished at that time. Flogging was another. The last flogging was in Delaware on June 16, 1952. When a burglar got 20 lashes.”(2013, 07. How We Punish Offenders in Our System.) In the quote that I’ve chosen it’s telling you about how the offenders punishment back in the early 1700’s were a lot more brutal and torturous. But as the years go on some of the offender’s punishment methods become different in style and form. The next quote that I have chosen is basically just explaining the way that punishments for offenders are basically handle in this day and age in our correctional system.
“The correctional system has a way of punishing offenders in this country unlike in different countries where you might get a harsher punishment for a crime that might seem more, petty and a lesser punishment for a crime that one would consider more of a harsher crime. In our system however not only are you innocent until proven guilty but you are also allowed to have a trial that can prove otherwise. The system might not always work out how we want it to, or expect it to but it is definitely a fair way of going about it. Offenders in this country get punished on the basis of how horrible the
The US correctional system punishes offenders in different ways, because each offense is on a different level some can be felonies and some can be charged as misdemeanors. In our correctional system they punishes offenders, by putting them in jail/prison. But in its early years prison punishments for offenders were cruel. In the early year of the correctional system offenders punishments were very different from their punishments now in this day and age.
“Our correctional system punishes offenders, by putting them in jail, or in prison. In the early times, before prisons punishments were often cruel and torturous. The unsettling description of a man broken in half on a rack in the early 1700’s is just one of the ways crimes were punished at that time. Flogging was another. The last flogging was in Delaware on June 16, 1952. When a burglar got 20 lashes.”(2013, 07. How We Punish Offenders in Our System.) In the quote that I’ve chosen it’s telling you about how the offenders punishment back in the early 1700’s were a lot more brutal and torturous. But as the years go on some of the offender’s punishment methods become different in style and form. The next quote that I have chosen is basically just explaining the way that punishments for offenders are basically handle in this day and age in our correctional system.
“The correctional system has a way of punishing offenders in this country unlike in different countries where you might get a harsher punishment for a crime that might seem more, petty and a lesser punishment for a crime that one would consider more of a harsher crime. In our system however not only are you innocent until proven guilty but you are also allowed to have a trial that can prove otherwise. The system might not always work out how we want it to, or expect it to but it is definitely a fair way of going about it. Offenders in this country get punished on the basis of how horrible the