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Community sentence. Community sentence [1] [2] or alternative sentencing or non-custodial sentence is a collective name in criminal justice for all the different ways in which courts can punish a defendant who has been convicted of committing an offense, other than through a custodial sentence (serving a jail or prison term) or capital ...
Official website. Former name: NYS Dept. of Correctional Services. (1971–2011) The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ( NYSDOCCS) is the department of the New York State government [3] that administers the state prison and parole system, including 44 prisons funded by the state government.
In the United States penal system, upwards of 20 percent of state and federal prison inmates and 18 percent of local jail inmates are kept in solitary confinement or another form of restrictive housing at some point during their imprisonment. [1] Solitary confinement (sometimes euphemistically called protective custody, punitive segregation ...
Intermittent Confinement. In the United States and Canada, intermittent confinement or weekend jail is an alternative sentence in which a defendant is required to report to a correctional facility for multiple short periods of incarceration, usually during the weekend. This type of sentence allows a defendant to maintain employment and family ...
The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisonerswere adopted by the United Nations General Assemblyon 17 December 2015 after a five-year revision process.[1] They are known as the Mandela Rulesin honor of the former South African President, Nelson Mandela. The Mandela Rules are composed of 122 "rules".
The Georgia Department of Corrections operates prisons, transitional centers, probation detention centers, and substance use disorder treatment facilities. In addition, state inmates are also housed at private and county correctional facilities.
Jurisdiction of the Department, excluding when transporting detainees in Nevada. [1] The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ( CDCR) is the penal law enforcement agency of the government of California responsible for the operation of the California state prison and parole systems. Its headquarters are in Sacramento .
The Oregon Department of Corrections is the agency of the U.S. state of Oregon charged with managing a system of 12 state prisons since its creation by the state legislature in 1987. In addition to having custody of offenders sentenced to prison for more than 12 months, the agency provides program evaluation, oversight and funding for the ...