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Title: 2014 legislative will prove whether policy makers have gotten smart on crime
Author: Marshall, Ronald
Date: 2014-03-19
State: Louisiana
Topics: recidivism, mandatory sentencing, minimum sentencing
Text: --~\lfmli116Jrf*wMim~bttllCrD by Ronald Marshall 0 nly time will reveal whether the 20 14 Legislative Session will mark a sincere effort by Louisiana's lawmakers to reform sentencing laws so that offenders can have a meaningful opportunity to get off the count. At the behest of the Jindal administration, four organizations joined in a collective effort to analyze criminal justice data/ statistics and offer options to assist Louisiana lawmakers in reducing the prison population and correc...
PID: apw:12341353
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T14:32:57.658Z

Title: An appeal to families of incarcerated loved ones
Author: Marshall, Ronald
State: Louisiana
Topics: appeal to families to help incarcerated individuals take measures to leave prison
Text: - Seventeen years ago, I arrived in Angola. I was assigned bed 43, next to an aging, frail prisoner who had been incarcerated longer than the 23 years I had been living. One day he said to me, "Youngsta, if you have family, don't waste their time and resources on bullshit. Doing time in prison is not for any one." Basically, he was telling me to use my family for one purpose: to assist in my struggles to regain freedom. In order to do so, I had to educate myself to educate my f...
PID: apw:12341415
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T15:27:16.835Z

Title: Combating the circumstances and nature of recidivism
Author: Marshall, Ronald
State: Louisiana
Topics: a deep desire to make changes is the most effective way to avoid recidivism
Text: Co1nba~ing ~he CiruuJns~anues and Na~ure of Reuid-vis...~-- W hat is recidivism? smoothly into society and combat recidivism. Their goal is balanced between protecting society and reengaging in criminal finding viable solutions to deter released offenders offending despite having from continued criminal behavior. Their strategies been punished for a include sophisticated risk assessments, meticulous previous offense. reentry planning, and post-release supervision careIn an age of mass incarfu...
PID: apw:12341350
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T14:20:43.608Z

Title: Get off the count!
Author: Marshall, Ronald
Date: 2013-09-03
State: Louisiana
Topics: encourages others to do what they can to minimize their time in prison--parole or reversing conviction
Text: e ~ ount Get Off the Count! In the Department of Corrections (DOC), the head count is the most sensitive and important aspect of the entire prison ordeal. Wherever an offender is located during count time, the offender does best to be located on a correctional officer's count. An offender could likely talk himself out of a disciplinary report for a number of rule infractions, except messing up the count. When the head count is messed up, everything stops: offender traffic, movement, phon...
PID: apw:12341346
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T14:05:06.472Z

Title: Prison economics: An examination of the variables impacting the costs of Louisiana's penal system
Author: Marshall, Ronald
State: Louisiana
Topics: factors leading to mass incarceration in Louisiana
Text: . Prison EconoiDics: An Examination of the Variables Impacting the Costs of Louisiana's Penal System by Ronald Marshall T his project will examine the variables that may or may not have had an impact on the density of Louisiana's prison population. The writer will attempt to discover whether Truth-inSentencing and ThreeStrike-laws are more related to acquiring federal money or maintaining public safety or !prison for profit ventures] (Alexander, 20 12). In addition, the writer will ...
PID: apw:12341407
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T15:21:34.798Z

Title: The game
Author: Marshall, Ronald
State: Louisiana
Topics: prisons in a political context--politicians versus impoverished inmates
Text: .v ....... . 5 ; I I n a lifetime, most people will play a game created for sport, fun, and profit, or as a strategy for gaining an end with the participants in direct opposition to each other. The term game is not synonymous with diversion. Some games have real life consequences. The sociopolitical game is one of them. In American society, rival groups with conflicting views play mind boggling games in politics, business, religion, government, community, media, etc. The nature of the games p...
PID: apw:12341404
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T15:15:26.046Z

Title: The unconstitutionality of America's 85% Law
Author: Marshall, Ronald
Date: 2013
State: Louisiana
Topics: mandatory sentencing violates constitutional right to equal protection of the laws
Text: T he Federal Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, as amended, provided for the Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth in Sentencing (VO I/TIS) incentive grants for states and U.S. terrorities. These grants were to be used to increase the bed space of state prisons to confine serious and violent offenders. Congress authorized $10 billion for the VOI/TIS program from the years of 1995 to 2000, but appropriations have only been $2.7 billion. The national evaluation of VOI/TIS...
PID: apw:12341398
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T15:07:46.249Z

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