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Violent offenders make up more than what percent of all sentenced incarcerated inmates in state prisons?

What term is used to describe a current movement that believes the purpose of corrections is to punish offenders as severely as possible?

What type of prison facilities have generous visitation policies with contact visitation, sometimes even short home furloughs, and a safer environment for both staff and incarcerated individuals?

The contract labor and convict lease systems were precursors of:

Which of the following challenges the ability of corrections to function as a system?

What term is used to describe a type of sanction that occurs when a convicted offender primarily pays into a victim’s fund for damages caused by the crime?

Which type of jail complies with the Prison Rape Elimination Act in that it establishes a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in U.S. prisons?

What term is used to describe courts with a specific scope that emphasizes partnerships with stakeholders, such as drug courts, DUI courts, or homeless courts?

What type of intermediate sanction focuses on the welfare of victims in the aftermath of the crime?

Jail officers’ lack of knowledge of appropriate intervention strategies poses a problem when dealing with the: