Focus, 2000, Summer

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/focus/1039/thumbnail.jp

Jails, Sheriffs, and Carceral Policymaking

The machinery of mass incarceration in America is huge, intricate, and destructive. To understand it and to tame it, scholars and activists look for its levers of power—where are they, who holds them, and what motivates them? This much we know: legislators criminalize, police arrest, prosecutors charge, judges sentence, prison officials confine, and probation and parole officials manage release. As this Article reveals, jailers, too, have their hands on the controls. The sheriffs who run jails—along with the county commissioners who fund them—have tremendous but unrecognized power over the size and shape of our criminal legal system, particularly in rural areas and for people accused or convicted of low-level crimes. Because they have the authority to build jails (or not) as well as the authority to release people (or not), they exercise significant control not merely over conditions but also over both the supply of and demand for jail bedspace: how large they should be, how many people they should confine, and who those people should be. By advocating, financing, and contracting for jail bedspace, sheriffs and commissioners determine who has a say and who has a stake in carceral expansion and contraction. Through their exercise of arrest and release powers, sheriffs affect how many and which people fill their cells. Constraints they create or relieve on carceral infrastructure exert or alleviate pressure on officials at the local, state, and federal levels. Drawing on surveys of state statutes and of municipal securities filings, data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, case law, and media coverage, this Article tells overlooked stories—of sheriffs who send their deputies out door knocking to convince voters to support a new tax to fund a new jail, and of commissioners who raise criminal court fees and sign contracts to detain “rental inmates” to ensure that incarceration “pays for itself.” It also tells of sheriffs who override the arrest decisions of city police officers, release defendants who have not made bail, and cut sentences short—and of those who would rather build more beds than push back on carceral inertia. A spotlight on jails and the officials who run them illuminates important attributes of our carceral crisis. The power and incentives to build jail bedspace are as consequential as the power and incentives to fill it. Expanding a county’s jailing capacity has profound ramifications across local, state, and federal criminal legal systems. Sheriffs have a unique combination of controls over how big and how full their jails are, but this role consolidation does not produce the restraint that some have predicted. Their disclaimers of responsibility are a smokescreen, obscuring sheriffs’ bureaucratic commitment to perpetuating mass incarceration. State courts and federal agencies have increasingly recognized and regulated public profiteering through jail contracting, and advocates have begun to hold jailers accountable, challenging expansion in polling booths and budget meetings

Strafford county 2006 annual report of the commissioners, treasurer, other county officers and the Strafford county delegation Strafford county, New Hampshire for the year ending December 31, 2006.

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire

Fall/Winter 2006

Features: Update Feature......Page 3 For CSUSB\u27s three 2006 honorary doctorate recipients, the lofty goals inherent in education rise from the most down-to-earth ways of pursuing a higher life. Athletics Feature......Page 13 You could call her the enforcer, or you could call her mom. Either way, Cita Jones is just looking for a little love and compliance from her student athletics. Contributions Feature......Page 19 With construction of the new education building now underway, CSUSB is bent on furnishing it with the best and brightest in equipment. Student Scapes Feature......Page 23 Manny Aybar\u27s few days at the Royal College of Music all came down to how he conducted himself- and the New Professionals-during the Proms Alumni Feature......Page 26 A 1997 California Teacher of the Year and 2000 CSUSB Distinguished Alumnae wants her students to know that, despite the strains, teaching is the most crucial of professions.https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/alumni-mag/1018/thumbnail.jp

Analysis of the Degree and Type of Family Support for Women in Semilibertad in Spain

Proyecto de Investigación I+D+I –REINAC-“Procesos de reinserción y acompañamiento a mujeres en semilibertad”, Ref. EDU2016-79322-R (2016-2020). Financiado por el Plan Nacional de Investigación, Proyectos de Investigación I+D+I, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) y FEDER (España).El presente artículo tiene el objetivo de estudiar el apoyo familiar a la población femenina en el medio abierto del Sistema Penitenciario Español como uno de los factores relacionados con su proceso de reinserción y tránsito a la libertad, analizando las fuentes, el grado y tipología de apoyos familiares para la vuelta a la vida en libertad. Este trabajo se enmarca dentro del proyecto de investigación I+D+I “Procesos de reinserción y acompañamiento a mujeres en semilibertad” (ref. EDU2016-79322-R) cuya metodología ha empleado métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos, de forma complementaria, aplicados a los 310 cuestionarios mixtos y a las 67 entrevistas semiestructuradas, diseñados ad hoc, en 31 centros penitenciarios que representan los distintos recursos de cumplimiento de condena en medio abierto. Se ha hecho un análisis descriptivo de los resultados y comparado la tendencia de los apoyos en el momento anterior a prisión y en el actual mediante la realización del test de McNemar por cada figura familiar estudiada. Los resultados obtenidos evidencian que el abandono o pérdida de apoyos es relativamente bajo, oscilando entre un 3,2% y 8,1% de las participantes según los diferentes miembros de la familia; manteniendo casi un tercio de ellas los apoyos de muchas de las personas de sus familias; e incluso consiguiendo apoyos nuevos como es en el caso de un 10,6% de las participantes al hablar de sus parejas.This article aims to study family support for the female population in the open environment of the Spanish Penitentiary System as one of the factors related to their reintegration process and transit to freedom, analyzing the sources, degree and type of support relatives for the return to life in freedom. This work is part of the R + D + I research project “ Procesos de reinserción y acompañamiento a mujeres en semilibertad” (ref. EDU2016-79322-R) whose methodology has used qualitative and quantitative methods, in a complementary way, applied to the 310 mixed questionnaires and 67 semi-structured interviews, designed ad hoc, in 31 penitentiary centers representing the different resources for serving sentences in the open environment. A descriptive analysis of the results has been made and the trend of support in the moment before prison and in the current one has been compared by performing the McNemar test for each family figure studied. The results obtained show that the abandonment or loss of supports is relatively low, ranging between 3,2% and 8,1% of the participants according to the different family members; maintaining almost a third of them the support of many of the people in their families; and even getting new supports such as in the case of 10,6% of the participants when talking about their partners.EDU2016-79322-R (2016-2020). Financiado por el Plan Nacional de Investigación, Proyectos de Investigación I+D+I, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) y FEDER (España