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File Name | S22-Policy-NCFCA-31-NEG-HomeConfinement.docx |
File Size | 58.74 KB |
Date added | December 20, 2021 |
Category | Policy (NCFCA) |
Author | David W. Helton & “Coach Vance” Trefethen |
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its policies regarding convicted prisoners under federal jurisdiction
The AFF case allows prisoners who were placed in home confinement by the 2020 CARES Act to serve the entirety of their sentence at home (or other AFF plans may increase home confinement in other ways or for other reasons). But home confinement isn’t the great answer to everything AFF will claim it is. Integrating back into society isn’t really happening for people locked to an ankle bracelet.
You need to understand the concept of “Net Widening.” It is not merely a debater’s trick argument. The term is commonly used in academic literature regarding the criminal justice system. When it becomes “easier” to arrest or punish offenders, the system does not pocket the savings and empty the prisons. Instead, it casts a wider net to get more offenders. The prison space and expenses supposedly “saved” by some percentage of people put into home confinement evaporates. After all, we have all this prison space we’re not using, it’s a waste if we don’t fill it up by prosecuting more people we might not have prosecuted before. Or, now that we have this “lesser” sanction, people who never would have been sentenced to prison before will now be sentenced to home confinement. The prisons will be (over)filled again PLUS we’ll have a bunch more people on home confinement. The prison system is now bigger and mass incarceration (or “E”carceration) expands, it doesn’t shrink.