The National Directory of Corrections Construction classified prisons into five general types. Identify and describe the five styles.

What will be an ideal response?


1. Campus style: a number of individual buildings that are not connected;
2. Ladder, telephone pole: linear cell blocks arranged in parallel configuration off a central connecting corridor;
3. Wheel, spoke, or radial: linear cell blocks that emanate from one central control area like spokes from the hub of a wheel;
4. Clusters: a number of individual buildings that are interconnected; and 5. Courtyard: linear cell blocks interconnected around a central enclosed courtyard.

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Which of the following is not a duty of parole and probation officers?

a. Visiting offenders' workplaces b. Visiting offenders' homes c. Informing offenders that he or she is recommending revocation of probation/parole d. Informing offenders that the officer is carrying a weapon

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