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In North America about 68% of 405,000 prisoners in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within 3 years of their release date. That means that 275,400 prisoners that were former prisoners returned to prison for misdeeds. As well in a national standpoint that the federal prison reform act of 2013 does provide and I quote “Requires the System to provide guidance on the kind and amount of recidivism reduction programming or productive activities assigned for each classification of prisoner;” This basically means that the national prisoner systems are required to provide the programs to have the recidivism rate of the prisoners down. Another reference related more to Georgia is in 2013 governor Nathan deal signed an adult criminal justice reform bill that revises minimum mandatory sentencing laws, expands the state’s right to evidence appeals and creates a new Georgia Criminal Justice Reform Commission. This will be in action until 2023. Also in 2013, Governor Nathan Deal signed the Juvenile Justice Reform Bill; the goal of this bill is to reduce the repeat juvenile offender. This in turn will decrease the prisoner incarceration rate in the future as the younger criminal generation will not be repeat offenders thus making the prisons not so crowded. However in these prisoners, they will always house the worst of the worst, because they will be the ones who actually are repeat offenders after their prison sentence when they were young. However on the bright side our state has a slightly better reoffense rate than the rest of the nation so that's a plus. With all these reforms and laws, Nathan deal said on February 26, 2014 that “Georgia has saved $20 million through changes in criminal sentencing.” This quote goes along with the reform acts because the reform act's intended outcome was to decrease state prison budget costs. However, I think the real reason should have been to make Georgia a safer place where the people released from prison have a lower chance to commit their crime again. Now when they announced this act it was said to save taxpayers 264 million dollars due to the new incarceration rules and its programs to have offender not end up back in jail. All these laws have worked in Georgia but i think that were missing something, something that needs to be put in place like more programs, because who doesn't want Georgia to be a safe place, I mean there is evil in the world, but who says we can’t prevent that evil. However, what most people tend not to look at is the effect on lawyers, prosecutors, and judges. They might have there job cut back some, I mean it's great that people want to fix some of the issues that our justice system has and that all systems have, but the jobs of these people could see a significant decrease, though not totally annihilated. The reason is because if they don't have people to send to court there's no need for these jobs, but we don't have to worry about that because everyone's not perfect and even though what they might have done was wrong, they still have rights in the constitution. This makes lawyers need to defend the people who did commit the crime and try to prove them innocent.
CITATION
"Governor to Sign Sweeping Justice Reform Bill." Governor to Sign Sweeping Justice Reform Bill. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
"Georgia Sentencing Reforms Pays off on Budget, Deal Says." @politifact. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
"Georgia's Recidivism Rate Is Slightly Better than the National Average." Creative Loafing Atlanta. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
"Juvenile Justice Reform." Georgia's. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
"S.1783 - Federal Prison Reform Act of 2013113th Congress (2013-2014)." S.1783. Sen. Cornyn, John, 09 Dec. 2013. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
CITATION
"Governor to Sign Sweeping Justice Reform Bill." Governor to Sign Sweeping Justice Reform Bill. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
"Georgia Sentencing Reforms Pays off on Budget, Deal Says." @politifact. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
"Georgia's Recidivism Rate Is Slightly Better than the National Average." Creative Loafing Atlanta. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
"Juvenile Justice Reform." Georgia's. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
"S.1783 - Federal Prison Reform Act of 2013113th Congress (2013-2014)." S.1783. Sen. Cornyn, John, 09 Dec. 2013. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.