Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Roughly 14% of federal inmates are classified as being either a low- or minimum-security risk.
2. In late 2016, national statistics indicated that more than half (54%) of all state prison inmates were violent offenders, while nearly half (47%) of federal inmates were drug offenders.
3. Texas is the largest system state prison system followed by California and Florida.
4. The “electric telephone” was a torture device invented in Arkansas and regularly used at the Tucker State Prison Farm.
5. A banishment chair was a form of punishment that used a chair suspended over a body of water to torture inmates.


1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. False

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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