Darlene Gillespie was one of the six original Mouseketeers on television's Mickey Mouse Club.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
False
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The Innocence Protection Act of 2004 provides federal funds to help eliminate ________
a. the use of firing squads as a means of execution b. the writ of habeas corpus c. the backlog of unanalyzed DNA samples d. structured sentencing
Foster care is a generic term applied to any kind of full-time substitute for children outside their own home by persons other than parents
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What is a Delinquent Child?
What will be an ideal response?
The ballot initiative offered a dramatic solution to the problem of California's overcrowded prisons and jails. Called Proposition 47, it proposed to downgrade a number of nonviolent felonies involving less than $950-including grand theft, shoplifting, writing bad checks, receiving stolen property, and drug possession-to misdemeanors. As a result of this change, offenders convicted of these crimes would probably not wind up behind bars. In 2014, thirty states passed legislation designed to lower incarceration rates, often by steering nonviolent offenders to community supervision. These policy choices reflect a small but significant trend in American corrections: fewer inmates. To be sure, these decreases do little to threaten our nation's title as "the globe's leading incarcerator." About
2.2 million Americans are in prison and jail. The United States locks up six times as many of its citizens as Canada does, and eight times as many as a number of European democracies. Still, the fact that politicians are willing to accept policies that reduce the number of inmates represents a sea change in the country's corrections strategies. States increasingly are relying on __________, or those strategies supported by statistical research, to decarcerate. A. get "tough on crime" strategies B. community corrections C. drug courts D. evidence-based strategies