Determinate Sentencing
For the people that are given short term sentences usually serve the whole sentence decided by the judge, or the offender might have good behavior and earn good time which would be applied and taken off their sentence, based on the rules and regulations. In the mid-1970s most state and federal prisons moved from long term to short term sentencing. As the years go by the state and the federal are thinking about moving it back to long term. Many states use the mixture of the two because some offenders get their sentences reduced due to rehab, counseling, and other programs so the department of corrections has the right to reduce sentences by one hundred and eighty days for good behavior or good time.
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