Alternative sentencing includes community-based programs, such as tree farming, road clean-up, community service, work release programs, and graffiti clean up, as well as drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs. Keep in mind that Alternative Sentencing is punishment and must fit the crime. Some alternative sentencing arraignments fit only for misdemeanors and others work for felonies. For example, to get into a drug rehabilitation program you may have to plead to a felony.
Alternative sentences can apply to individuals who fall within these parameters (just because you fall within these does not mean you will get alternative sentencing)
- Have not committed the ‘worst' crimes and no mandatory sentence
- Have not committed numerous crimes
- Have not committed a serious felony, with or without the use of a weapon
- Do not pose a risk to themselves or the community
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