Chapter 2 Self-Check Quizzes

Correctional Systems
. Judges can lessen the length of offenders' sentences based on their age.

. County probation officers supervise more individuals in the community than are supervised in the local jail.

. Jails and detention centers are facilities designed to hold a variety of offenders for more than one year.

. New-generation jails have more staff-inmate contact.

. One advantage of the telephone pole design is that inmates can be housed according to classification levels where inmates with special needs.

. The average length of stay for persons in jail is over 60 days.

. Minimum security prisons are used for disruptive inmates.

. Federal prisons have a smaller number of offenders than found in local and state institutions.

. What prison design is built as a single building or separate buildings are constructed in a perimeter format around a large interior space.

. What prisons are generally reserved for the most violent and dangerous offenders?

. Half-way housed that serve as pre-release centers for inmates nearing the end of their sentence operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons are named?

. Which of the following did the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 not legislate?

. Inmates live in cubicles or dormitories and participate in work and other programs in this type of federal facility.

. In this security level, there is considerable freedom to move around the facility to attend work assignments and programming activities despite being surrounded by chain link fences and barbed wire?

. In the U.S., after super-max prisons, these represent the next highest level of security?

. Which of the following are examples of privately contracted correctional services?

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