How should higher-risk inmates be housed or placed?

• A. Immediately place them in isolation for 72 hours.
• B. After a risk assessment, place them in appropriate housing with protections to reduce abuse risk, while ensuring fair treatment.
• C. Place them in the general population without special protections.
• D. Transfer them to external facilities.

Answer: (B)

The main idea being tested is that safety for higher-risk inmates comes from careful assessment and protective housing, not automatic isolation or unrevised placement. After conducting a risk assessment, the inmate should be placed in appropriate housing that includes protections to reduce abuse risk, while still ensuring fair treatment and due process. This approach balances the need to prevent harm with the obligation to treat the inmate rights-respectfully. Immediate isolation without any assessment ignores the individualized risk factors and can amount to punitive isolation; placing the inmate in the general population without protections fails to address the elevated risk, and transferring externally is not the default step unless an appropriate, protected placement cannot be provided locally.