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The most common means of classifying crimes is according to the degree of seriousness, therefore most crimes are either classified as a ____________ (serious crime) or a _____________________ (less serious crime).

The modern American correctional system is credited to the work of ___________ in Pennsylvania.

The first American jail was built in ________________ in the early 17th century.

A less secure prison institution that houses nonviolent offenders and provides more opportunities for contact with the outside world.

List two of the four main levels of law enforcement in our country.

What significant event in history made it mandatory to limit the amount of prison made goods allowed for sale in the late 1920s and early 1930s?

__________________ is a word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings that is said to be ambiguous. 

What act made it a federal offense to transport interstate commerce goods made in prison for private use?

 True or False, there are two types of setting in poetry: the temporal–which is the time or season.– and the spatial– which is the place.

Zebulon Brockway is most known for being the warden of the ________________, which advocated indeterminate sentencing and treatment.