Answer to Question 1
FALSE
Answer to Question 2
The answer should include the following points:
Staff who work with the residents know them best and are, therefore, the best judges of when they should be released.
The staff see their charges daily, work with them in therapy, interact with them informally, and observe their interaction with peers.
The twenty-four hour living experience should, according to the proponents of institutional decision making, make the institution and its staff outstanding experts on the progress and character of their youths.
The institutional officials and staff are prone to overreact to residents' inability to get along in the institution.