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Community Corrections Acts  

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  • Beginning in the 1970s, many state governments in the United States, hoping to decrease reliance on state institutions, passed community corrections acts. The intent was to utilize more local and community correctional programs as alternatives to increasingly overcrowded state institutions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community Corrections; Community Corrections Acts]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-PQJVV708-3

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