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

1. Truth-in-sentencing laws have led to longer sentences.
2. An indeterminate sentence is a range of years.
3. In a determinate sentence, offenders are given a fixed number of years.
4. In a determinate sentence, offenders are given a fixed number of years.
5. The habitual offender statute is a way of selectively incapacitating felons only after
they have demonstrated the inability to live by society’s rules.


1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE

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