A major problem of jail administration is that sheriffs are politically accountable to county voters, so jails are one of the most political institutions in adult corrections.

Privately operated facilities are generally located in the northeast region of the United States, due in large part to more highly populated urban areas.

Jails have even fewer alternatives for dealing with the issue of _______ than do prisons.

The majority of people convicted of sex offenses are placed on probation, and many never set foot inside a jail or prison.

An intensive form of short-term community supervision that also requires attendance is the:

The state-based act through which local governments receive subsidies for diverting minor offenders is the:

Discuss the three basic functions of an adult probation officer.

Police lockups can hold persons for periods for up to one week.

The Bail Reform Act of 1984 overturned the 1976 Supreme Court case of Burton v. South Carolina, which required that no defendant be kept in pretrial detention simply because he or she could not afford financial bail, and reinstated pretrial detention for indigent offenders.

What policy promotes sentencing repeat offenders to long prison terms while granting first-time and nonviolent offenders shorter, more lenient sentences?