The Presentence Report (PSR)
I) Preparation
- This includes an inclusive biographical history:
- Past and Current Medical and Mental Healthcare needs
- Medications
- Substance abuse
- Medical Devices needed
- ADL (Activities of Daily Living), PADL (Prison Activities of Daily Living)
II) Your Narrative
- Express remorse, while still understanding the victim’s pain, suffering, and how it has impacted them.
- Agree with the court as to the seriousness of the crime, without minimizing it. Expand on this topic
- What in your life brought you to this moment, what happened that caused you to do this?
- What has this experience taught you? Did it bring up moments from your past?
- Explain to the Judge that you have a plan (only if you do),
- to start making this right with those you have victimized –
- or if you have already started, what are they,
- no matter how small those efforts have been?
- If it’s been a year or so since your verdict, what have you been doing?
- (1)Working, (2)volunteering, or watching: (3)TV (only options 1 and 2 are correct).
- What is your plan to never re-offend? If there was a “trigger,” what was that trigger, and how do you remove it from your life?
III) COVID, unfortunately, will be with us for a long time, like the seasonal Flu.
- Unfortunately, it is much more lethal.
- 2022/2023, We’ve gone from pandemic to endemic
- Practically all that means is that as a society:
- Some believe in prevention and others do not
- The result is that while influenza has a ~ 52K deaths / per year
- COVID and its variants may be 10 x as much
- More importantly, new strains are more than likely to present themselves, and masks along with new technology in indoor air filtering are in our future.
- Long-COVID, Long-Haulers, or Post-COVID; these symptoms may be mitigating factors to present before the presentence interview as no jail, or prison (state or federal) is equipped to provide the necessary care.
- Beyond that, this would not be a qualifier for either 100% CARE LEVEL III or ADL as the symptoms could keep one between sleep, the bathroom, meals, and at best a short walk.
