Intermediate Sanctions and Community Corrections

Intermediate Sanctions and Community Corrections
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Intermediate Sanctions Of Fines and Restitutions
Question 1
The use of fines in criminal courts has seen the monetary penalties getting used as punishment for the common violations. The courts, however, courts have been indiscriminately imposing sanctions as the judges turn to be debt collectors and the jails into prisons for the debtors and the imprisonments of the poor. Sanctions don’t have the same meaning to people especially for the poor. The wealthy offenders make payments to dismiss cases against their poor counterparts (Nimni, 2017). I suggest that the criminal justice system problem needs to get addressed by reducing the inequality. That means an overhaul of the state sentencing system, having diversions well as prevention programs, reforming the prisons, better policing, and molding former prisoners into having better live stability
Question 2
It is not fair to impose monetary penalties that are likely to affect the quality of life of the family members. They punish the family inadvertently, and from the perspective of justice, it is not the right thing. It is necessary that the penalties get suspended when one gets imprisoned. The court administrators usually collect the fines while many of the defendant families are already impoverished (Shapiro, 2015)
Question 3
A restitution order requires the offender to make payments for monetary damage caused by the o…