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In the federal courts, the home confinement program is only used with pretrial defendants.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons accepts hard-to-control inmates from state prisons.

In the 19th century, Jeremy Bentham, English prison reformer and utilitarian philosopher, introduced the ________ prison design.

Intermediate sanctions fall along a continuum ranging from least intrusive (fines and community service) to  most intrusive (house arrest, electronic monitoring).

An intensive form of short-term community supervision that also requires attendance is the:

The crime rate has increased and the number of people in prison has declined.

Half of all detainees being held in jail are misdemeanants who could not make bail.

Discuss some of the major issues that elderly inmates face while in prison.

Which of the following statements about boot camps is most accurate?

A sentence delaying conviction on a guilty plea until after probation is served is a: