Reset Day

By ZWT Jameson

In the near future the US Congress sought to introduce a new law to help reduce the chronic levels of overcrowding in prisons across the country. Every year Congress wanted judges from across the fifty states to review the status of inmates for their eligibility to be put up for a new law they called Reset Day.

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: The Larry Hobson Press
• Release date: Sep 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201336394

ZWT Jameson

ZWT Jameson is a writer whose projects include being part of the creative team behind a movie currently in development with Warner Bros called ARES which will be directed by Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis and was written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel, Tomb Raider).

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Reset Day

ZWT Jameson

Published by The Larry Hobson Press, 2021.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

RESET DAY

First edition. September 18, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 ZWT Jameson.

Written by ZWT Jameson.

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Reset Day

Reset Day

In the near future the US Congress sought to introduce a new law to help reduce the chronic levels of overcrowding in prisons across the country. Every year Congress wanted judges from across the fifty states to review the status of inmates for their eligibility to be put up for a new law they called Reset Day.

The proposed law divided both the Democrats and the Republicans during a series of heated debates with many members of Congress having to endure months of sustained harassment from the US public who were completely at odds with the proposal.

Reset Day was hugely controversial, mass demonstrations took place across the country as many people viewed this new law as unconstitutional and a violation of a prisoner’s human rights.

The troubled route to finally making Reset Day the law came from a test case in Georgia which was ruled on by the US Supreme Court and backed heavily by the Attorney General who publicly agreed that this new law would help solve the country’s issue of overcrowded prisons.

Prisoners were designated to be put forward for Reset Day if they were still serving time beyond their conditional release date which was set during the original sentence hearing by the judge presiding over the case.

Conditional release dates were set by judges as a mechanism to encourage good behaviour and incentivise prisoners to engage in the rehabilitation programmes offered whilst in prison to prove they were fit to return to society earlier than the full term laid down during sentencing.

A Reset Day hearing meant the prisoner would have to face