In History
The "work system" was a new method in the 1800s, what would this system have prisoners do?
Inmates would be required to work while they were still prisoners (on railroads, in factories, or other prison run work)
This type of sentencing focuses on meeting the person's needs, providing education, job training, and sometime healthcare
Rehabilitation
In a court, these two groups or people are able to set what the sentence is
The judge and Jury
U.S. Citizen taxes
Penitentiary, a place people would be sent to regret their actions before being released into the community.
This type of sentencing focuses on punishment, an "eye for an eye" type of reaction
Retribution
What are two alternative sentences that does not just send a person to prison?
Parole and Probation
What is a private prison? How do they make profit?
a prison that is run by a company not directly by the government. They make money per person held in their prison per day.
What type of specific punishment is this quote referring to: “I believe it, in its effects to be cruel and wrong. In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind, humane and meant for reformation, but I am persuaded that those who devised this system of prison discipline… do not know what it is they are doing, I beleive that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment… inflicts upon the sufferers… I hold this slow and daily tampering with the msyeries of the brain to be immensely worse than any torture of the body”
Isolation/ solitary confinement
This type of sentencing is aimed at paying the victims or communities back, fixing what was wrong, can take the form of money or services
Restitution
What is the difference between a determinate and indeterminate sentence?
Determinate does not have a range (life in prison.)
Indeterminate has a range and a possibility of parole (15years-life in prison)
Besides private prisons, what are the names of the 3 levels of prison?
Maximum security
Medium security
Minimum security
What was a pillory and what role did it have in corrections?
An old device that a person would be locked up in, in view of a town square, to shame them after they did a crime.
This type of sentencing is focused on removing the person who committed the crime from society
Incapacitation
What is the difference between parole and probation?
Probation, the person does not go to prison in the first place but their activity is monitored
What is another name for a maximum security prison?
Penitentiary
A new form of corrections was created in 1877 in New York. It was focused initially on youth. What was this system and what did it do?
Rehabilitation, offered young boys and teens who were caught as criminals education, job training, and counseling programs.
This type of sentencing is specifically aimed at preventing future crime from happening
Deterrence
Who decides on parole, in Missouri how many people are involved in this group, and who initially needs to request parole at the start of this process?
The parole board, in MO there are 7 people on the parole board, the person charged with a crime and actively serving time in prison has to request parole to start.
Recall the documentary, what level of prison would Henry Boggus been housed in?
Maximum Security Prison