What are the three different types of local correctional institutions?

What will be an ideal response?


Jails detain individuals for 48 hours or longer. These hold those awaiting trial and those who have been convicted. Lockups hold individuals for less than 48 hours at temporary holding facilities, usually at police stations. Workhouses and houses of corrections, which are usually county prisons, hold convicted inmates for short terms.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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When two agencies receive information about the same offending:

a. The agency with the best jurisdiction/resources to address the case should pursue it. b. The first agency to receive the information should pursue the case c. A joint investigation should be undertaken. d. a or c

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A person may purchase an alcoholic beverage for or give an alcoholic beverage to a minor if he is the minor's ___________________ and he is visibly present when the minor possesses or consumes the alcoholic beverage.

A. Adult friend B. Adult girl friend C. Peace officer friend D. An adult in whose custody the minor has been committed by a court

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Was an American white supremacist and anti-Semite who entered the Holocaust Museum and began shooting, eventually killing a security officer

a. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab b. Timothy McVeigh c. Bill Ayers d. James W. von Brunn

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