I believe that the lost can respond to treatment but that punitive measures, such as increasing the length of jail sentences, will do nothing to alter their behaviour.
"Why else," one Democratic senator asked the other day, "would we be obsessing about the length of jail sentences for C.E.O.'s rather than really thinking hard about the federal government's role in setting accounting standards?" "Just think," he continued.
Steve-O, who's real name is Stephen Glover, took to Instagram to reveal the length of jail time, which, for most people is the same as a regular working day.
Recent focus has been placed on improving the continuum of care, increasing access to appropriate services, and reducing the length of jail stay (Epperson et al. 2011).
As such, the current study is timely in that it examines the combined impact of legal counsel and additional case management services on length of jail stay and recidivism outcomes for mentally ill, indigent defendants.
Thus, while the IDC program decreased the average length of jail stay and associated costs, and facilitated the ability of indigent offenders with mental illness to retain appropriate community based treatment services this did not reduce re-offense risk.
