I'm Alice and I'm Brett and this is the prosecutor's legal police. Oh, Welcome back to the prosecutor's legal briefs. I'm your host Alice and I'm joined as always by my

by the guidelines co-host Brett. That's right Alice. I never step outside. I do what I'm told at all times.

Yeah right. I think after the last couple of episodes on our other podcast the prosecutors

podcast we all found out how Brett is a little bit more of a wild child when it comes

to rule of law that I thought I thought we were friends I thought I understood you but it's okay guys

Brett is going to stay within the guidelines today to explain sentencing to you exactly Exactly. Sentencing, after which you have a right of escape, but that's a different legal briefs altogether.

Yeah, you guys, a lot of people have asked this about sentencing. I think sentencing is one of those things people don't don't understand and there's a good reason for that. It's completely different in every jurisdiction.

So that's part of the problem. we thought we would go through some of the basics of it

Just to explain it for you guys so you know what to expect in some of these high profile cases you're seeing though with the caveat that there's always

going to be some deviation in the way different jurisdictions do it.

I think one thing to start with

before we get into sort of how sentencing's done

to sort of set the stage for everybody

is the purpose behind incarceration.

So obviously, in the United States,

we have a whole lot of people in prison.

Other countries do it a little differently,

though I don't know if there's any country that

doesn't have prisons because you have to have prisons for some people and generally

speaking in the United States the philosophy behind incarceration is there's

there's really four reasons to do it. There's sort of

four things that go into incarceration in determining what a Senate should be,

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