Explain some of the recent trends in incarceration, which have arisen in response to the 3 challenges you are focusing on.

(2 ½ page paper)

Imagine you are a probation officer and you have been asked to talk to a local community group about the current state of prison and jail populations.

Write a 2 ½ page paper that helps explain the U.S. corrections system on local, state, and federal levels. Address the following in your presentation:

· -Describe the jail population.

· -Describe the prison population.

-Describe the population under community supervision.

· -Indicate the top 3 challenges facing jails and/or prisons according to your view; especially focus on challenges facing support service workers.

· -Explain some of the recent trends in incarceration, which have arisen in response to the 3 challenges you are focusing on.

· -Discuss the role of support services in responding to these 3 challenges facing corrections.

· -Describe ways that inmates are released from prison.

Define community corrections.