Steps That Can Be Taken to Help Prevent Prison Corruption

question 13

Multiple Choice

Steps that can be taken to help prevent prison corruption, especially that involving correctional officers, include which of the following?

• A) Reduce visiting privileges for inmates to reduce opportunities for outside assistance with illegal behavior
• B) Create "open prisons" such as those found in Scandinavia
• C) States implementing improved management of material practices in each prison (e.g., creating written guidelines for the exercise of discretion by correctional officials)
• D) Rewriting model standards for prison employees, such as those created by the ACA

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