Student Name Allan SanchezStudent Identification Number AC150310.docx

Student Name Allan Sanchez
Student Identification Number AC1503104
Course Number and Title Introduction to Criminal Justice
Assignment 8_08 Part B
Date 07/10/2015
1. Briefly describe mandatory release and good-time release.
Mandatory release is the release of prisoners required by law
after they have served the entire length of their maximum
sentence. Good-Time release is A variant of parole is known as
"time off for good behavior", or, colloquially, "good time".
Unlike the traditional form of parole – which may be granted or
denied at the discretion of a parole board – time off for good
behavior is automatic absent a certain number (or gravity) of
infractions committed by a convict while incarcerated (in most
jurisdictions the released inmate is placed under the supervision
of a parole officer for a certain amount of time after being so
released). In some cases "good time" can reduce the original
sentence by as much as one-third. It is usually not made
available to inmates serving life sentences, as there is no
release date that can be moved up.
2. Describe one (1) way inmates receive/apply good-time credit
to their release.
Parole is a privilege, not a right, and any prisoners are refused
parole when they first apply. Parole boards expect to hear a
prisoner admit responsibility for his crimes. They also expect
that the prisoner will take advantage of the programs made
available in prison, such as, if appropriate, GED programs,
Alcoholics Anonymous, and vocational training. They will also
look at the prisoner's conduct during incarceration, and whether
the prisoner has been cited for misconduct. (Typically,
prisoners will be "ticketed" for their violations of prison rules,
with offenses classified as "major" or "minor." A prisoner who
was involved in a fight would likely be ticketed for a "major"

offense, while a prisoner who yelled at a guard might be
ticketed for a "minor" offense, depending on the circumstances.
These "tickets" can be challenged through administrative
hearings, but are usually upheld as valid.) They may also look
at the prisoner's age, the amount of time he has served, the
remaining time in his sentence, and his mental health. The exact
criteria for parole vary from state to state.
Perhaps the most important assessment that the parole board
attempts to assess is the likelihood that the prisoner will re-
offend. Parole boards have no interest in releasing people into
society who will commit more crimes, particularly given that
the media will sometimes hold the parole board as responsible
as the criminal in such cases. Increasingly, potentially
dangerous offenders, such as sex offenders, are finding that they
are never granted parole, even in states where they are eligible.
Some prisoners are not eligible for parole, either because of
state policy, or because of the crime they committed. Some
crimes carry a flat term of years, which must be completed
without the possibility of parole. A defendant who is sentenced
to "life" in prison will either be sentenced to "parolable life," or
to "non-parolable life." If a person serving a "life" term is
eligible for parole, he typically must serve fifteen or twenty
years of his sentence before he can request parole. If a person is
serving non-parolable life, he never becomes eligible for parole.
3. Is this process is beneficial to the criminal justice system as a
whole? Provide one (1) supporting fact to justify your position.
Before being granted the privilege of parole, the inmate meets
with members of the parole board and is interviewed, The
parolee also has a psychological exam. The inmate must first
agree to abide by the conditions of parole set by the paroling
authority. While in prison, the inmate signs a parole certificate
or contract. On this contract are the conditions that the inmate
must follow. These conditions usually require the parolee to
meet regularly with his or her parole officer or community
corrections agent, who assesses the behavior and adjustment of
the parolee and determines whether the parolee is violating any

of his or her terms of release (typically these include being at
home during certain hours which is called a curfew, maintaining
steady employment, not absconding, refraining from illicit drug
use and sometimes, abstaining from alcohol), attend drug or
alcohol counseling, have no contact with their victim. The
inmate gives an address which is verified by parole officers as
valid before inmate is released on to parole supervision.
4. Do you think inmates should be able to earn good-time
release? Provide one (1) supporting fact to justify your position.
Release into the community may occur in stages. First, as the
criminal nears his release date, he may be moved into less
secure prison facilities. If he abuses the privileges at the less
secure prison, he will be returned to a more secure facility.
Prisoners in less secure facilities are sometimes allowed to work
outside of the prison, either through a state program or
sometimes through a private employer. If the prisoner continues
to behave well, he may eventually qualify for placement in a
half-way house, a residential facility where he can have a job,
and may even qualify for day or weekend passes where he is
free to do what he wants. If a prisoner successfully completes a
term in a half-way house, he is usually paroled into the
community.
Activity 1.8 – Module 1 Problems
Complete the following problems and submit the results in
either a Microsoft Word document or a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet. If you choose to use an Excel spreadsheet, place
each problem on a separate sheet and label the tab with problem
number. Save your document with a descriptive file name,
including the assignment and your name.
These problems are similar to problems in the text, but have

been altered by the course monitor.
1-1 Jay White sells handmade decorations. He had to purchase
specialized equipment for $4000 and buy a retail license for
$1000. It cost Jay $125 in time and materials to make each
item. He expects to sell each decoration for $150.
a. How many units will he need to sell to breakeven?
b. Jay has been told that the market for his products may not be
as large as he originally anticipated. What price would he have
to charge to make the Breakeven Point 100 units?
c. This new price represents what percentage change in the
price?
1-2. Farris Billiard Supply sells all types of billiard equipment
and is considering manufacturing their own brand of pool cues.
Mysti Farris, the production manager, is currently investigating
the production of a specialize pool cue that should be very
popular. Upon analyzing the costs, Mysti determines that the
materials and labor cost for each cue is $50 and the fixed cost
that must be covered is $2400 per week.
a. With an expected selling price of $80 each, how many pool
cues must be sold to breakeven?
b. What is the total revenue at that point?
c. What would the profit (or loss) be if they sold 100 per week?
d. What would the selling price have to be to make the BEP 60?
1-3 Holdtight a leading manufacturer of quality nails, produces
1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-inch nails for all kinds of applications. In
the production process, if there is an overrun or the nails are
slightly defective, they are placed in a common bin. Yesterday,
736 of the 1-inch nails, 223 of the 2-inch nails, 89 of the 3-inch
nails, 455 of the 4-inch nails, and 377 of the 5-inch nails were
placed in the bin.
a. What is the probability of reaching into the bin and getting a

5-inch nail?
b. What is the probability of getting a 3-inch nail?
c. If a particular application requires a nail that is 3 inches or
longer, what is the probability of getting a nail that will satisfy
the requirements of the application?
1-4 The oasis outpost of Abu Ilan, in the heart of the Neveg
dessert, has population of 24 Bedouin tribesmen and 16 Farima
tribesman. El Kamin, a nearby oasis, has a population of 8
Bedouin s and 36 Farima. A lost Israeli soldier, accidently
separated from his Army unit, is wandering through the desert
and arrives at the edge of one of the oases. The soldier has no
idea which oasis he has found, but the first person he spots at
distance is a Bedouin.
a. What is the probability that he wandered into Abu Ilan?
b. What is the probability he is in El Kamin?
1-5 In a sample of 1,000 representing a survey from the entire
population, 600 people were from Laketown and the rest were
from River City. Of the sample, 19 had some form of cancer.
Twelve of those were from Laketown.
a. Are the events of living in Laketown and having cancer of
some sort of cancer independent?
b. Which city would you prefer to live in, assuming that your
main objective was to avoid having cancer?
1-6 Gary Schwartz is the top salesman for his company.
Records indicate that he makes a sale on 70% of his sales calls.
a. If he calls on 6 potential clients, what is the probability he
makes exactly 4 sales?
b. What is the probability he make fewer than 3 sales?
1-7 Susan Williams has been the production manager of
Medical Supplies, Inc. for the past 17 years. Medical Supplies
Inc. is a producer of bandages and arm slings. During the past 5
y ears, the demand for No-Stick bandages has been fairly

constant. On the average, sales have been about 87,000
packages of No-Stick. Susan has reason to believe that the
distribution of No-Stick follows a normal curve, with a standard
deviation of 4,500 packages.
a. What is the probability that sales will be less than 80,000
packages?
1-8 The time to complete a construction project is normally
distributed with a mean of 45 weeks and standard deviation of
4.5 weeks.
a. What is probability the project will be finished in 53 weeks
or less?
b. What is the probability the project will be finished in 40
weeks or less?
c. What is probability the project will take more than 57 weeks?
You may submit just the answers or you may submit the
answers and the QM worksheets you used to arrive at the
answer. Choosing the latter will afford instructors the
opportunity to review your work and determine if you
understand the concept but have made some minor
computational error, therefore allowing them to assign some
credit based on your understanding. Submitting just the answers
does not provide for any partial credit.
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M1_Problems.docx
Student Name Allan Sanchez
Student Identification Number AC1503104
Course Number and Title Introduction to Criminal Justice
Assignment 8_08 Part A
Date 07/10/2015

1. Describe the loss of the right to vote for inmates who are
incarcerated.
Prisoners are citizens too. They may have committed a felony,
but they are still citizens of their home country. Some people
think prisoners should not have the right to vote, but many
others think they should. About two million people in U.S. are
in prison. All those people do not get to cast a vote in the
election. They are not able to decide who runs the country they
live in. Imagine not being able to have a say in our country. We
are a democracy, which means everyone has the right to vote in
our government. Prisoners should be allowed to vote because
they still are citizens and still have rights.
Prisoners should be able to vote and influence the outcome of
an election . If all the prisoners were allowed to vote it may
have an impact on the election. Prisoners want the chance to
vote. As of February 2011 the United States was in the lead of
number of prisoners with 2,019,234. Prisoners do not have a say
in the government. In New York people who are on parole
cannot vote. As of 2004 thirty-five states forbid people who
have just been released from prison to vote.
In the constitution it states everyone is given the right to vote.
Amendment 15 is the voting rights act. In the first section of
this amendment, it states the right to vote cannot be taken away
from people based on their color, race, or what has happened
previously in their life. That amendment is not being applied to
the rights of prisoners. Only two states, Vermont and Maine, let
everyone vote without ever stripping away rights (Robin Coe,
Prisoners Voting Rights ehow.com). In Vermont the voting laws
are you have to be a citizen of the United States, a resident of
Vermont, has taken voters oath, and 18 years or older to vote,
this means that prisoners can vote there. In the second section it
states that congress is supposed to enforce the first one. In 47

states prisoners cannot vote; in Maine incarcerated person is
allowed to vote. Congress has only protected this amendment in
two states.
We are a democracy. In a democracy everyone has a say in the
government. The voting rules are different for prisoners in each
state. In some states prisoners voting rights have to be restored.
In South Dakota felons must serve their full term of
incarceration, parole, or probation before they are allowed to
register to vote. In Washington, felons have to wait to be off
parole to be able to vote. In some states, prisoners cannot get
their voting rights back once they have left prison if they have
committed a very serious crime. In Alabama, most felons have
to apply to get their voting rights back, but if the felon
committed a very serious crime like a murder, or treason they
cannot get their rights back. In Delaware no matter what crime a
felon may have committed they have to wait five years before
they can vote, but if they committed murder, manslaughter, or
abuse they have their voting rights permanently taken away. In
Mississippi, when felons commit murder, theft, arson, bribery,
carjacking and more they are banned from voting , but they can
go to their state representative and convince him/her why they
should be able to vote. Taking away prisoners voting rights
even after they have been released is unfair. Two million people
are in prison. That’s a lot of people who cannot have a say, plus
all the felons that have been released but are not able to vote.
Those people cannot choose who runs their government.
Prisoners should be able to vote because they are citizens and
they do have an influence on who would be elected. Those 2
million people would make a difference. When the election
comes up their voting could make a difference in who gets
elected. We are a democracy. Everyone has a say in
government. Just because they have committed a crime does not
mean their voting rights should be taken away.
2. Is race is an underlying issue in this process? Provide one (1)
supporting fact to justify your response.
Adults are often better at recognizing own-race than other-race

faces. Unlike previous studies that reported an own-race
advantage after administering a single test of either holistic
processing or of featural and relational processing, we used a
cross-over design and multiple tasks to assess differential
processing of faces from a familiar race versus a less familiar
race. Caucasian and Chinese adults performed for tasks, each
with Caucasian and Chinese faces. Two tasks measured holistic
processing: the composite face task and the part/whole task.
Both tasks indicated holistic processing of own-race and other-
race faces that did not differ in degree. Two tasks measured
featural and relational processing: The Jane/Ling task, in which
same/different judgments' were made about face pairs that
differed in features of their spacing, and the scrambled/blurred
task, in which test faces were scrambled (isolates memory for
components) or blurred (isolates memory for relations). Both
tasks provided evidence of an own-race advantage in both
featural and relational
Processing. I conclude that even when adults process other race
faces holistically, other manifestations of an own-race
advantage remain.
3. Do you believe that inmates should have the right to vote?
Provide one (1) supporting fact to justify your position.
They're still citizens. With ever increasing punitive sentences,
often times for non violent crimes, it's completely reprehensible
to deny almost 2.5 MILLION people their right to vote. These
people deserve a voice in the politics that directly effect them
as American citizens. We need to understand that anyone can
end up in jail with over 600,000 ways to become a felon in
America. We are all felons, everyone reading this, you, me, stop
with the the notion that all people in prison are 'terrible' or
deserve to be there. We live in a police state, voting is one of
our only real outlets to attempt to change it.
ASSIGNMENT 08
J01E Introduction to Criminal Justice

Directions: Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answer
before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless
otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to
use correct English, spelling and grammar. Sources must be
cited in APA format. Your response should be four (4) double-
spaced pages; refer to the "Assignment Format" page located on
the Course Home page for specific format requirements.
Part A
1. Describe the loss of the right to vote for inmates who are
incarcerated.
2. Is race is an underlying issue in this process? Provide one (1)
supporting fact to justify your response.
3. Do you believe that inmates should have the right to vote?
Provide one (1) supporting fact to justify your position.
Part B
1. Briefly describe mandatory release and good-time release.
2. Describe one (1) way inmates receive/apply good-time credit
to their release.
3. Is this process is beneficial to the criminal justice system as a
whole? Provide one (1) supporting fact to justify your position.
4. Do you think inmates should be able to earn good-time
release? Provide one (1) supporting fact to justify your position.
Grading Rubric
Please refer to the rubric on the next page for the grading
criteria for this assignment.

CATEGORYExemplarySatisfactoryUnsatisfactoryUnacceptable
10 points 8 points 5 points 2 points
Student provides a clear,
logical description of the loss
of the right to vote for
inmates who are
incarcerated.
Student provides a mostly
clear, logical description of
the loss of the right to vote
for inmates who are
incarcerated.
Student provides a weak or
unclear description of the
loss of the right to vote for
inmates who are
incarcerated.
Student provides a poor
description of the loss of
the right to vote for
inmates who are
incarcerated.
logical description of
whether or not race is an
underlying issue in the loss
of right to vote process, with
at least 1 clear, logical
supporting fact.

of right to vote process, with
at least 1 mostly clear,
logical supporting fact.
unclear description of
of right to vote process,
with at least 1 weak or
unclear supporting fact.
description of whether or
not race is an underlying
issue in the loss of right to
vote process, with 0-1 poor
supporting facts.
whether he or she believe
that inmates should have the
right to vote, with at least 1
clear, logical supporting fact.
that inmates should have
the right to vote, with at
least 1 mostly clear, logical
supporting fact.

that inmates should have
the right to vote, with at
least 1 weak or unclear
supporting fact.
description of whether he
or she believe that
inmates should have the
right to vote, with 0-1 poor
supporting facts.
mandatory release and good-
time release.
mandatory release and good-
time release.
mandatory release and
good-time release.
description of mandatory
release and good-time
release.
logical description of at least
1 way inmates receive/apply
good-time credit to their
release.

at least 1 way inmates
receive/apply good-time
credit to their release.
unclear description of at
least 1 way inmates
receive/apply good-time
credit to their release.
description of 0-1 ways
inmates receive/apply
good-time credit to their
release.
Part A: Loss of right
to vote - description
(10 points)
to vote - race (10
points)
to vote - opinion (10
points)
Part B: Mandatory &
good-time release -
descriptions (10
points)
Part B: Good-time
credit (10 points)
whether or not the process is
beneficial to the criminal
justice system as a whole,
with at least 1 clear, logical
supporting fact.

whether or not the process
is beneficial to the criminal
with at least 1 mostly clear,
whether or not the process
is beneficial to the criminal
with at least 1 weak or
unclear supporting fact.
not the process is
beneficial to the criminal
with 0-1 poor supporting
facts.
whether or not he or she
believes inmates should be
able to earn good-time
release, with at least 1 clear,
release, with at least 1
mostly clear, logical

supporting fact.
release, with at least 1
weak or unclear supporting
fact.
not he or she believes
inmates should be able to
earn good-time release,
with 0-1 poor supporting
facts.
Student makes no errors in
grammar or spelling that
distract the reader from the
content.
Student makes 1-2 errors in
content.
Student makes 3-4 errors in
content.
Student makes more than
4 errors in grammar or
spelling that distract the
reader from the content.
The paper is written in
proper format. All sources

used for quotes and facts are
credible and cited correctly.
proper format with only 1-2
errors. All sources used for
quotes and facts are credible
and most are cited correctly.
proper format with only 3-5
errors. Most sources used
for quotes and facts are
credible and cited correctly.
The paper is not written in
proper format. Many
sources used for quotes
and facts are less than
credible (suspect) and/or
are not cited correctly.
Mechanics (20
Points)
Part B: Beneficial to
CJ system (10
points)
Part B: Good-time
release - opinion
(10 points)
Format (10 Points)

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