Transcription of CHAPTER 5 Corrections - NCJRS
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CHAPTER 5 CorrectionsThe field of Corrections addressed in this section includes the adultand juvenile justice agencies responsible for the incarceration,detention, supervision, and surveillance of those accused or convictedof committing crimes. The Corrections system encompasses institu-tional Corrections our nation s prison system and facilities such asjails that temporarily confine those accused or convicted of Corrections includes probation , an alternative sentence tojail or prison/detention, as well as paroling authorities which haveresponsibility for hearings on releasing offenders from incarceration ordetention and supervision following is no standard organizational model defining the relationshipsbetween correctional agencies on the state or federal level. In somestates, the institutional correctional agency not only manages theprisons but has responsibility for parole release decisions and paroleesupervision.
percent were on probation and 15 percent were on parole.13 Moreover,as the rate of incarceration in our nation’s prisons dramatically increases, community corrections increasingly is used as a spillway for prisons.14 The number of probation and parole professionals that need to place crime victims on a ‘more even playing field’ with offend-
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