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1) List whom in general is elected to office
and who is appointed to office in the criminal justice system.
In many, if not most jurisdictions, the sheriff and district attorney
are elected to office. In some states, those that have a coroner,
(Colorado) the coroner is also elected to office. In some states
judges are elected to their position, and some states use an appointment
process (in Colorado judges are first appointed by the governor
and then must later stand for retention). In general officials
such as directors of prisons or corrections are appointed, chief
probation officers are appointed (in Colorado by the chief judge
of the judicial district). It is critical that you understand
the constitutional differences between the executive, legislative
and judicial branches of government.
2) Prison population in the U.S. is growing
and in fact the U.S. may have the highest number of individuals
locked in prison per 100,000 than any other country in the world.
(True or False)
False: The U.S. probably has the highest
percentage of its people in prison in the world, so the answer
is true.
True: The prison population
in the U.S. is around 600 per 100,000 individuals depending on
which set of statistics you use. This is probably the highest
rate of any known country in the world.
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