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Research and evaluate present trends pertaining to the development and operation of institutional and community based corrections. As part of your evaluation, identify and analyze current and future issues facing prisons and prison administrators today and the role/issue of alternate correction systems as a developing trend.

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This solution helps answer questions regarding prison overcrowing, and answers the question regarding whether traditional prisons are better than privately owned prisons.

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Our prison population is constantly growing. There are answers to this problem but implementation will take many years before we see any positive effects. Institutional corrections describes the traditional penal institutes or prisons where the prisoners are incapacitated whereas community based corrections involves a less-structured lower security facility. Community based corrections often involves inmates who participate in work release programs or those who are working as a trustee under the supervision of ...

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