3-1 Milestone One Submission: Sentencing And Demographics Of

3-1 Milestone One Submission: Sentencing and Demographics of Offenders in Your StateSouthern New Hampshire UniversityCJ-320 Corrections in the U.S. 02:21:36 GMT -05:00Minnesota has had a set of sentencing guidelines that have changed and been added to over the years. These guidelines are called presumptive sentencing guidelines and were adopted by the state on May 1st, 1980 (2022 Sentencing Guidelines Grid - minnesota.gov, 2023). Presumptive sentencing is when there are sentence recommendations laid out depending on the individual’s criminal history and current charges. This type of guidelines is laid out in a gride form that specifies what the recommended sentence should be depending on where the person lands on the grid. There is discretion built into the sentencing guidelines that a judge may use with out providing further information. In Minnesota a judge may increase the sentence by 20% of the recommended sentence of lower it by 15%, anything outside of this would need to have written information as to why there was a departure outside of this range (2022 Sentencing Guidelines Grid - minnesota.gov, 2023).The presumptive sentencing guidelines helps to follow Minnesota’s philosophy of ‘just deserts’ which means that the punishment should be just and fitting for