Parole, Reentry, and Reintegration
Community places of residence after incarceration operated by the corrections department or faith-based organisations.
What are halfway houses?
8 hours of work (carpentry or manufacturing shoes/clothes) and 4 hours of schooling.
What is a typical day in a New York or Philadelphia house of refuge?
Punitive penalty ordered by the court after a defendant has been convicted.
What is a sentence?
The temporary suspension of an activity or law, e.g. the death penalty.
What is a moratorium?
The number of inmates exceeds the physical capacity (the beds and space) available.
What is overcrowding?
Finding housing and employment, reconnecting with family and friends, accessing healthcare and substance abuse treatment, and engaging civically and socially.
What are barriers/challenges to reentry?
To remove impressionable youth from hardened adult prison settings to reduce “contamination” from adult prisoners.
What was the purpose of Houses of Refuge?
Indeterminate, determinate, and mandatory.
What are examples of types of sentences?
The current most common method of execution in the United States.
What is lethal injection?
Delivery of arrestee by law enforcement, booking, classification, and placement in more permanent housing.
What are the 4 steps in processing an inmate into a jail?
Offenders remain in their homes aside from specified, approved activites.
What is house arrest?
The first prison constructed specifically for women after a pregnant woman was lashed and killed in a New York state prison.
What is Mount Pleasant Prison?
Statute that mandates that an offender with a third felony conviction should be sentenced to life imprisonment.
What are habitual offender statutes?
Change in the language used in death penalty discourse from legality, morality, and fairness to innocence.
What is the Innocence Revolution?
Providing comparable pay and benefits for those who work in jail with those who work on the streets as law enforcement.
What is coequal staffing?