Sentencing Paper

CJA 234

Punishment may sound like painful word, but in fact it is nothing more but a consequence given to a criminal offender. The state and federal correction system have similar objectives for criminal offenders as a form of punishment. Due to request for harsher punishment, sentencing affects both the state and federal correction system. Upon pleading or finding an offender guilty, the determinate and indeterminate sentencing model is implied in which the federal and state correctional system assigns to criminals for time given in prison.

Depending on the crime, punishment for both state and federal prison system can be different time sentences and programs. The state corrections system main objective of punishment is to supervise criminal offenders during their...