How are states using community alternatives to bring down the cost of corrections?

What will be an ideal response?


• With the 2010 average cost of inmate incarceration averaging about $31,000 a year, states have turned to the considerably less expensive community alternatives. These include sending nonviolent drug offenders to community treatment and opening special treatment facilities for DWI offenders.

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a. medium-security b. federal c. minimum-security d. maximum-security

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The primary duty of the courts is

a. statutory compliance. b. oversight of police actions. c. adjudication. d. interpretation of constitutional mandates. e. modification of unfair laws.

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What was key to the power of Kenna and Coughlin?

a. Delivering the vote b. Cornering the drug market c. Cornering the gambling market d. All of these

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A(n) ________ center consists of several exercises or job simulations designed to elicit from candidates the behaviors found to be important to job success by the job analysis

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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