Essays on Alternative Sentencing

Prisons are facilities created to confine people who go against the set of laws in a particular country to rehabilitate them. The first prison was built in 1970 by The Quakers to keep offenders isolated from society. They were to think about their wrongdoing and...

Alternative sentencing or community sentence is where a convict is convicted of a crime and contrary to imprisonment or facing a death judgment. The offender is punished in distinct forms, it’s mostly used for non-violent crimes, white-collar crimes, first-time convicts, and juvenile convicts. Pressure has...

Alternative sentencing also termed as a community sentence, or non-custodial sentence is a term referring to the various modes of punishment upon convicts of offense. This is different to capital punishment where convicts are punished by death, or custodial sentence, where they are punished by...

Most criminals have been convicted of their crimes. In that case, they end up receiving corporal punishment and being subjected to a very harsh environment not conducive for proper survival as mostly they don’t know their rights. Well, there came some laws by other states...

Alternative sentencing comprises all of the different forms of punishment that a court can impose on a defendant after he’s been convicted of an offense, other than a jail term or the death penalty. It’s also called community sentencing or non-custodial sentencing. It is a...