lundi 29 juillet 2013

Alabama Courts Offer Pews Or Cells For Misdemeanor Offenders

By Cornelius Nunev





A brand new program called Operation Restore Our Community is starting off in Alabama in the coming week. Bay Minette's one judge is offering a new punishment option. Culprits are given the choice of going to prison and paying fines, as is conventional. Culprits can also choose to go to church for a full year, not missing a Sunday.



Operation Restore Our Community



The one city judge in Bay Minette, Ala., has decided to start a brand new program. More than 50 churches have signed up for his Operation Restore Our Community program. The punishment that misdemeanor non-violent culprits have will be an option. This is what the plan does. The offenders could be sentenced to jail and charges, or they can choose to go to church every Sunday for a full year. Every Sunday, the offenders have to check in with the pastor and law enforcement, and any missed days of church will tug them out of the plan. The case will then be dismissed if the person participates in church for one year.



Figures



There are statistics that brought Operation Restore Our Community about. Criminals and culprits who have strong connections to the neighborhood are much less likely to re-offend in the future, according to studies. This attendance is simply part of a full scale "community involvement" metric, several studies believe. Not all religions are shown to help in the study. Mostly only Jeudo-Christian church attendance works.



Will save the neighborhood money



The Bay Minette Police Chief has voiced his support for the Operation Restore Our Community program. The city doesn't have lots of additional cash lying around. The municipal costs will be reduced quite a bit. every single day, it costs about $75 to keep an inmate in jail. That means a one-year prison sentence would cost the city or state $27,000; the church-attendance plan will likely cost much less, as it demands only a weekly check-in with officials.



Keeping away from rights



The First Amendment of the United States Constitution claims "no religious doctrine shall be established by law," which has long been interpreted to mean church and state should be separated. A number of people are concerned about what the plan will do. It endorses religion, which makes several people scared. The administrators of the plan point out that with 56 church possibilities, no single religion or belief is being endorsed. Nobody has tested the idea that offenders may not believe in anything offered to them.









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