Discuss how the removal of the Pell grant has affected prison education programs

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Answer should include information on the use of the Pell grant in paying for inmate higher education, and how its removal put the responsibility of paying for college classes all on the inmate (who is often unable to afford it). In addition, most of these classes are correspondence courses.

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Which of the following statements is false, in regards to the role that natural support systems and informal social controls can have on the offenders behavior

A. Natural Support Systems can limit the formal social controls extolled by correctional agencies B. Informal Social controls can augment and enhance the formal social controls extolled by correctional agencies C. They provide the opportunity for offenders to develop new networks that include law abiding citizens D. Adult transition periods can be critical factors in affecting a person's involvement in and desistence from criminal behavior. E. All of the above statements are true

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Which hostage-taker takes hostages as a means to make a political, social, or religious statement, but does not intend to hurt its hostage?

a. Defensive-criminal hostage-taker b. Violent-ideological hostage-taker c. Passive-ideological hostage-taker d. Relationship-related hostage-taker

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Conclusions drawn about the relationships among concepts, based on the logical interrelationship among the axioms is:

a. a law b. a proposition c. an axiom d. a statement

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The right to counsel contained within Miranda applies only when the individual under interrogation is in custody

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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