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community-based centers  

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  • Community corrections agencies employ a large number of centers that are located in various neighborhoods. These centers have various missions, objectives, rehabilitative philosophies, punitive modalities, and techniques, and they serve a diverse array of offenders under different forms of community corrections supervision. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community Corrections; Community-Based Centers]

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