Terms #1
Guards are now referred to as this.
What are correctional officers?
Automatic parole is called this.
The term parole means this.
What is word of honor?
Knowing how to get people to do what they otherwise would not is called this.
What is power?
A document granting freedom to work and live outside the prison before the expiration of his full sentence.
What is a ticket of leave?
Release after the completion of a sentence without supervision or reporting requirements is called this.
What is unconditional release?
What a person does every day on the job is called this.
What is a role?
Probation and parole officers are more professionalized than these individuals because of higher education, more training, and higher pay.
Who are corrections officers?
Government imposed changes in someone's legal status that interfere with the person's constitutionally guaranteed rights to be free of such interference.
What is a liberty interest?
A correctional officer in a prison who is a violent, cynical, and alienated keeper of inmates is called this.
What is a hack?
Prisoners were tortured by mostly untrained corrections officers in a military prison in Iraq during this time.
What is the Abu Ghraib scandal of 2004?
This is granted at the discretion of a parole board for selected inmates who are deemed to have earned it.
What is discretionary parole?
This case determined if a probationer had a right to counsel at a probation revocation hearing.
What is Mempa v. Rhay?
What is discretion?
The longer the time spent in prison, the better the chance of success on parole.
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Transitional places of residence for offenders who are between the constant supervision of prison and the mush looser supervision in the community.
What are halfway houses?
Because of this, correctional staff at the state and local levels were able to gain some collective power to bargain with administrators to improve their own work conditions.
What is unionization?
The provision by a correctional officer of goods, services, advocacy, and assistance to help inmates adjust is called this.
What is human service?
This system involves 4 stages, beginning with a 9-month period of solitary confinement, and the first 3 months with reduced rations and no work.
What is the Irish system?
This is probably the most important tool for the successful reintegration of offenders who want to go straight.
What is employment?
Earning credits for the speedy and efficient performance of tasks and for overall good behavior is part of this system.
What is the marks system?
The process of leaving prison and returning to society is called this.
What is reentry?
A panel of people presumably qualified to make judgments about the suitability of a prisoner to be released from prison after having served some specified time of their sentence.
What is a parole board?
Entry-level public sector workers with too much work to do, too few resources to do it, and some discretion to choose how to do it is called this.
What is a street level bureaucrat?
During this, students volunteered with no training to act as officers and inmates in a makeshift prison.
What is the Stanford prison experiment?