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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


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lcapri7

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Reply #1 on: Aug 17, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

c


brutforce

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Reply 2 on: Aug 17, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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