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Sentencing Vs Incarceration

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During the 1980’s and 90’s, crime rates starting wavering around their highest rates that they have ever been. This raise in crime rates called for action to be put into place in order to compensate. One of the actions put in to place during this time was a change in sentencing law. Previously, judges were given huge discretion when it came to sentencing and incarceration rates had been dropping for a while. This directed the creation of federal sentencing guidelines. Although guidelines were placed on lesser crimes and first time offenses, they were ignore and lead to larges increases in percent of people receiving prison sentences and length of sentences for various offenses. These ignored guidelines were created with the idea that it would

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