PRISON ISSUES
THE VICTIM
DEATH
CORRECTIONS
100
Reduce the number of people going to prison. Release the less dangerous to make room for the more dangerous. Expand existing prison capacity or build new prisons.
What are ways of effecting prison overcrowding?
100
Someone who suffers direct or threatened physical, emotional, or financial harm as the result of the commission of a crime.
What is a victim?
100
Lawful imposition of the death penalty.
What is Capital Punishment?
100
Correctional institutions that take away prisoner amenities and privileges.
What are no-frills prisons and jails?
200
A set of guidelines for determining an offender's sentence.
What is Structured Sentencing?
200
A requirement of the federal victims rights and restitution act of 1990 that mandates that federal law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and corrections officers use their best efforts to ensure that victims recieve basic rights and services during their encounter with the criminal justice system.
What is the Best Efforts Standard?
200
A crime for which the death penalty may but need not necessarily be imposed.
What is Capital Crime?
200
Is a process through which correctional facilities and agencies can measure themselves against nationally adopted standards and through which they can recieve formal recognition and accredited status.
What is Accreditation?
300
An altercation involving three or more inmates, resulting in offical action beyond summary sanctions and for which there is an institution al record.
What is Disturbance?
300
Costs such as fear, pain, suffering, and reduced quality of life that accrue to crime victims as a result of their victimization.
What is Intangible Losses?
300
Kindness, mercy, forgiveness, or leniency, usually relating to criminal acts.
What is Clemency?
300
The identification or verification of human identity through measurable physiological and behavioral traits.
What is Biometrics?
400
Any action by a group of inmates that constitutes a forcible attempt to gain control of a facility or area within a facility.
What is a Riot?
400
Costs such as medical expenses, lost wages, and property losses that accrue to crime victims as a result of their victimization.
What is Tangible Losses?
400
Lethal Injection and firing squad.
What are the methods of execution in Utah?
400
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty could be constitutional.
What is Gregg v Georgia?
500
A freestanding facility, or a distinct unit within a facility, that provides for managment and secure control of inmates who have been officially designated as exhibiting violant or serious and disruptive behavior while incarcerated.
What is Supermax Housing?
500
A form of victim assistance in which state-funded payments are made to victims to help them recover financial losses due to crime.
What is Victim Compensation?
500
The U.S. Supreme court ruled that the death penalty, as imposed, was cruel and unusual punishment.
What is Furman v Georgia?
500
An organized program that offers services to victims of crime in the areas of crisis intervention and follow-up counselling and that helps victims secure their rights under the law.
What is Victim Assistance Program?
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