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n. the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
n. the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders
Word Usage
"It's a bit of a crummy research question though, because you have no evidence a priori (apart from your obvious bias against climate science) to suspect there is a systematic problem in corrections of datasets."