Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that analyzes the principal objectives of punishment within the U.S. corrections system.
Answer the following questions in your paper:
What are the state and federal objectives of punishment?
How does sentencing affect the state and federal corrections systems overall? Support your answer.
What is determinate and indeterminate sentencing? Which sentencing model do you feel is most appropriate? Explain why and provide an example.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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The primary purpose of ‘punishment’ in the legal system of correction is to correct the offender, while matching the intensity of punishment with the reasons why the person has committed the crime. In general, the punishment works on the principle of retribution which means infliction of pain on the ones who deserve it by the ones who suffered
