Direct-supervision (DS) jails place the correctional officers’ station within the inmates’ living area, or pod, which means the officer can see and speak to inmates.

Please list and discuss the benefits that have been attributed to the use of intermediate sanctions.

In which Supreme Court case did the defendant make the argument that the imposition of the death penalty was cruel and unusual because African American men killing white victims are sentenced to death with greater frequency than white men killing white victims?

Recent research has shown that drug courts truly have not been as effective as prisons when it comes to reducing the recidivism rates of drug offenders.

Boot camps began in adult corrections, but are more recently used for juvenile offenders.

Currently, the Federal Bureau of Prison is responsible for roughly ____percent of our nations 1,500,000 prisoners.

In medium-security prisons, the emphasis is on controlled access to programs.

Biometrics is the use of technical job skills training for jail inmates in order to increase employment opportunities upon release.

The so-called “rackets” are much less developed in women’s prisons; drugs, for example, are found much less in frequently women’s prisons compared to male prisons.

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.