First 400-600 words:

On the Internetfind the cost for incarceration for your New York state prison system.This should include a budget reflecting the construction, the costs of staffand administration and the costs of maintaining and housing inmates in thesefacilities. Each prison system usually will have a total cost of inmateper day figure. Which part of the country is the most expensive, which is thecheapest?

Second 400-600 words:

You are a state judge in yourcommunity and will be up for election in 6 months. Your opponent has criticizedyou for not taking a hard line against criminals by using tough sentencingpractices, specifically long tern incarceration for non-violent offenses. Writea short speech to your constituents explaining why community corrections optionsmay be better for the community when compared to prison sentences. In 400-600words, criticize your opponent for his/her hard line stance and explain whythis approach may not be best for the taxpayer and community.

Justify your sentencingstrategies with facts found in the book (Corrections today 3^rdedition by larry siegel, Clemens bartollas

youcannot copy and paste information from a reference source, that isplagiarism. You can summarize, paraphrase, and include quotes – you mustproperly cite your material and provide the full reference at the end.The basic rule is this: if something is not your original thought youmust give credit to the source of that information. Failure to do so is aviolation of the plagiarism policy.

must have 400-600 words and be written in APAformat (which includes in-text citations and list of sources).