While there is a deep symbolic significance, from a legal perspective, an arrest would not result in any immediate lengthy incarceration for Officer Wilson prior to any trial that may take place.
When Olvera's daughter eventually defied the court's orders and took her father to live at her seaside home in Northern California, Norheim's supervisor, Judge Charles Hoskin, issued an arrest warrant for her "immediate arrest and incarceration" without bail.
In two controlled trials of 298 males and 323 females newly incarcerated, routine opt-out HIV testing was offered at one of three points after incarceration: immediate (same day), early (within the next day), or delayed (7 days).
That change would have a much larger immediate impact on incarceration rates than reversing differential sentencing for crack will.
Maryland, for one, eased the process of reintegration for these men (and women) just a couple of weeks ago, passing legislation that returns the franchise to eligible voters upon immediate release from incarceration.
323 sequential entrants to the women's jail over a five week period in August and September 2007 were assigned to be offered routine opt-out HIV testing at one of three points after incarceration: immediate (same day, n = 108), early (next day, n = 108), or delayed (7 days, n = 107).
298 sequential entrants to the men's jail over a three week period in March and April 2008 were assigned to be offered routine opt-out HIV testing at one of three points after incarceration: immediate (same day, n = 103), early (next day, n = 98), or delayed (7 days, n = 97).
He runs through the immediate causes of the incarceration epidemic: the growth of post-Rockefeller drug laws, which punished minor drug offenses with major prison time; "zero tolerance" policing, which added to the group; mandatory-sentencing laws, which prevented judges from exercising judgment.
The HOPE model delivers swift and certain punishment for specifically identified inappropriate behavior among parolees, resulting in immediate but brief terms of incarceration — the length of stay is not the key factor.
At any rate, it happened, and the immediate result, after two months of incarceration, was that he said he would do whatever his parents liked.
