Author Question: To ensure that convicted offenders serve a large portion of their sentence, the U.S. Congress ... (Read 161 times)

brutforce · **on:** Aug 17, 2018

To ensure that convicted offenders serve a large portion of their sentence, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for additional state prisons and jails through the ___________________ _________ of 1994.

a. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
b. Violence Against Women Act
c. Federal Lautenberg Act
d. Felony Crime Act

Question 2

With the rise of truth-in-sentencing laws, more and more inmates were sentenced to prison and required to serve what percentage of their sentence?

a. 35 percent
b. 50 percent
c. 85 percent
d. 95 percent