boot camp. 1. A camp for basic training of Navy or Marine Corps recruits. 2. A military-like facility esp. for juvenile offenders. • Boot camps are specialized programs for offenders who are generally nonviolent males from 17 to 25 years old. While proponents applaud the success of these programs, others find their long-term success limited […]
监禁，拘押 英语：imprisonment 法语：incarcération, réclusion 德语：Inhaftierung 意大利语：carcerazione, arresto 西班牙语：arresto, prisión, encarcelamiento, presidio
departure, n. 1. A deviation or divergence from a standard rule, regulation, measurement, or course of conduct (an impermissible departure from sentencing guidelines). downward departure. In the federal sentencing guidelines, a court’s imposition of a sentence more lenient than the standard guidelines propose, as when the court concludes that a criminal’s history is less serious
Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act. A law, originally enacted in 1956, in which the federal government, certain states, and the District of Columbia agree that a state may obtain custody of a prisoner for trial even though the prisoner is already incarcerated in another state. • Under the Act, if a prisoner makes a written
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1. A measure of duration. 2. A point in or period of duration at or during which something is alleged to have occurred. 3.Slang. A convicted criminal’s period of incarceration.
community service. Socially valuable work performed without pay. • Community service is often required as part of a criminal sentence, esp. one that does not include incarceration.
A court that hears cases against nonviolent adults and juveniles, who are often first-time offenders and who are usu. charged with possession of a controlled substance or with committing a minor drug-related crime. • Drug courts focus on treatment rather than on incarceration.
disimprisonment. The release of a prisoner; the removal of a prisoner from confinement. — Also termed disincarceration; decarceration. Cf. INCARCERATION.
probation. 1. A court-imposed criminal sentence that, subject to stated conditions, releases a convicted person into the community instead of sending the criminal to jail or prison. Cf. PAROLE. [Cases: Sentencing and Punishment 1811.] — probationary, adj. bench probation. Probation in which the offender agrees to certain conditions or restrictions and reports only to the
Lackey claim. A prisoner’s assertion that incarceration on death row for a protracted period is cruel and unusual punishment. Lackey v. Texas, 514 U.S. 1045, 115 S.Ct. 1421 (1995) (denying cert.). [Cases: Sentencing and Punishment 1795. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 1591–1592.]