Discuss the factors that enabled an increase in the employment of minorities in corrections.

What will be an ideal response?


The employment of minority group men and women in correctional organizations did not increase until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed and affirmative action plans were developed to encourage their employment.

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At common law, suicide was:

A) murder. B) justifiable. C) known as a mercy killing. D) euthanasia.

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The first penal institution to use individual cells and work details for inmates opened in ______ in 1776.

a. New York City b. Los Angeles c. Chicago d. Philadelphia

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______ is the holding of an incarcerated young person in an isolated locked room with no contact with other offenders, and most of the time with little or no staff contact.

A. Punitive detention B. Isolation holding C. Solitary confinement D. Targeted isolation

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According to the text, West Virginia and Texas have the lowest juvenile custody rates

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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