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Classification override (prison)
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Classification override (prison)In the US penitentiary jargon, a decision based on either aggravating or mitigating circumstances, to assign an inmate higher or lower public risk and/or institutional risk scores and/or to an alternative institutional placement of higher of lower security and/or custody levels than is designated by either the initial classification or reclassification process.
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Penitentiary
A prison for the punishment of convicts.
Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
Assign
To give, to transfer responsibility, to another. The assignee (sometimes also called "assigns") is the person who receives the right or property being given and the assignor is the person giving.
Inmate
One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Risk
A danger, a peril to which a thing is exposed. The subject will be divided by considering, 1. Risks with regard to insurances. 2. Risks in the contracts of sale, barter.
Security
That which renders a matter sure; an instrument which renders certain the performance of a contract. The term is also sometimes applied to designate a person who becomes the surety for another, or who engages himself for the performance of another's contract.
Custody
The detainer of a person by virtue of a lawful authority.
Initial
Placed at the beginning.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
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Class action
When different persons combine their lawsuits because the facts and the defendant are so similar. This is designed to save Court time and to allow one judge to hear all the cases at the same time and to make one decision binding on all parties. Class action lawsuits would typically occur after a plane or train accident where all the victims would sue the transportation company together in a class action suit.
Class action lawsuit
A group lawsuit in which several or many individuals join forces to sue a given company or industry.
Class action litigation
Collective litigation by many people against a certain company or person.
Class action movie
A movie about collective civil lawsuits.
Class action reform
1) Reform of a class action lawsuit during the procedures. 2) Reforming the class action laws.
Classaction lawsuit
A class action lawsuit.
Classaction lawsuit case
A popular name for a class action lawsuit case.
Classaction lawyer
Another way to call a class action lawyer.
Classactionsuit
A popular name for a class action lawsuit.
Classification societies
Classification societies are institutions (often non-profit) which inspect, study and report on the seaworthiness and the general and particular condition of individual ships. They also often perform port state control inspections. Finally, they may provide surveying services to national maritime administrations by contract with the governments of those countries.
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Custody level (jail)
In the US penitentiary jargon, an assigned category achieved by objective scoring that identifies an inmate?s required housing and supervision needs, and which determines to a large extent where and how the inmate is housed.
Commissary (prison)
In the US penitentiary jargon, the jail store for inmates, which provides food and hygiene items, correspondence material, tennis shoes, reading glasses, phone cards and over-the-counter medication.ÿ
Contraband (jail)
In the US penitentiary jargon, it includes illegal items, explosives, deadly weapons, drugs, controlled substances, and any item that is controlled, limited or prohibited on the grounds or within the secure perimeter of a correctional facility.
Charges dropped
Any individual who has been arrested may be released from custody by the arresting agency if it is determined that there are insufficient grounds for prosecuting the individual.ÿ Authorization for this type of release may come from the arresting agency at any time during the forty-eight hours preceding the arraignment, and the time of the release will vary accordingly.
Court-ordered releases
The court may order an inmate to be released from custody at any time if the judge deems this to be the appropriate course of action.ÿ
Classification override (prison)
Concurrent sentence
Sentence is being served at the same time as another sentence(s).
Consecutive sentence
Sentence must be served after another sentence has been served.
Community residential programs
In the United States, programs for prison inmates to do community service.
Commutations and pardons
In the United States, under the authority of each state's constitution, the governor has the power to grant executive clemency through pardons and commutations.
Capping
In the US penitentiary slang, talking about one's family, relatives, or girlfriend in a disrespectful way.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Penitentiary
A prison for the punishment of convicts.
Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
Assign
To give, to transfer responsibility, to another. The assignee (sometimes also called "assigns") is the person who receives the right or property being given and the assignor is the person giving.
Inmate
One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Risk
A danger, a peril to which a thing is exposed. The subject will be divided by considering, 1. Risks with regard to insurances. 2. Risks in the contracts of sale, barter.
Security
That which renders a matter sure; an instrument which renders certain the performance of a contract. The term is also sometimes applied to designate a person who becomes the surety for another, or who engages himself for the performance of another's contract.
Custody
The detainer of a person by virtue of a lawful authority.
Initial
Placed at the beginning.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Class action
When different persons combine their lawsuits because the facts and the defendant are so similar. This is designed to save Court time and to allow one judge to hear all the cases at the same time and to make one decision binding on all parties. Class action lawsuits would typically occur after a plane or train accident where all the victims would sue the transportation company together in a class action suit.
Class action lawsuit
A group lawsuit in which several or many individuals join forces to sue a given company or industry.
Class action litigation
Collective litigation by many people against a certain company or person.
Class action movie
A movie about collective civil lawsuits.
Class action reform
1) Reform of a class action lawsuit during the procedures. 2) Reforming the class action laws.
Classaction lawsuit
A class action lawsuit.
Classaction lawsuit case
A popular name for a class action lawsuit case.
Classaction lawyer
Another way to call a class action lawyer.
Classactionsuit
A popular name for a class action lawsuit.
Classification societies
Classification societies are institutions (often non-profit) which inspect, study and report on the seaworthiness and the general and particular condition of individual ships. They also often perform port state control inspections. Finally, they may provide surveying services to national maritime administrations by contract with the governments of those countries.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Custody level (jail)
In the US penitentiary jargon, an assigned category achieved by objective scoring that identifies an inmate?s required housing and supervision needs, and which determines to a large extent where and how the inmate is housed.
Commissary (prison)
In the US penitentiary jargon, the jail store for inmates, which provides food and hygiene items, correspondence material, tennis shoes, reading glasses, phone cards and over-the-counter medication.ÿ
Contraband (jail)
In the US penitentiary jargon, it includes illegal items, explosives, deadly weapons, drugs, controlled substances, and any item that is controlled, limited or prohibited on the grounds or within the secure perimeter of a correctional facility.
Charges dropped
Any individual who has been arrested may be released from custody by the arresting agency if it is determined that there are insufficient grounds for prosecuting the individual.ÿ Authorization for this type of release may come from the arresting agency at any time during the forty-eight hours preceding the arraignment, and the time of the release will vary accordingly.
Court-ordered releases
The court may order an inmate to be released from custody at any time if the judge deems this to be the appropriate course of action.ÿ
Classification override (prison)
Concurrent sentence
Sentence is being served at the same time as another sentence(s).
Consecutive sentence
Sentence must be served after another sentence has been served.
Community residential programs
In the United States, programs for prison inmates to do community service.
Commutations and pardons
In the United States, under the authority of each state's constitution, the governor has the power to grant executive clemency through pardons and commutations.
Capping
In the US penitentiary slang, talking about one's family, relatives, or girlfriend in a disrespectful way.
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