ABSTRACT
Introduction When most people hear the term “corrections,” they probably think of prisons, striped uniforms, cell blocks, armed guards, and surly prisoners. Part of American corrections is prisons, but corrections is much more than that. Corrections includes prisons, jails, halfway houses, group homes, probation, parole, intensive supervision, electronic monitoring, restitution programs, victim-offender mediation, and even the death penalty. Corrections can be defined
as all that society does to and with offenders after they have been found guilty of a crime. Corrections even includes some things done to offenders prior to conviction, such as detention in jails pending adjudication of guilt and programs for offenders who are diverted out of the criminal justice system.
