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The way changes in crime rates affect the correctional system is straightforward and comprehensible.

Prison disorder, including riots, staff murders, escapes, and inmate homicides, is proportionately rarer today than in past.

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?