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Risk assessment methods have low rates of failure.

Prison programs that seek to halt the spread of HIV within the prison population are ________.

Which of the following is NOT a new technology in corrections?​

Long-term offenders have no access to programs while in prison.

Which of the following is a tactic for reducing prison violence by dividing facilities into small, self-contained, semiautonomous “institutions”?

Transgender offenders enter prison with a disproportionate amount of __________.

The deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s, had no impact on the mentally ill population in jails and prisons. 

Which one of these is NOT considered a fundamental right under the Constitution?

Prior to 1954, if a state wanted to enact a program that separated individuals based on their race, but still provide both sets of persons equal services, what would the government have to demonstrate for this program to be deemed constitutional?

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Sixth Amendment requires that there must be at least 12 jurors to decide a case.