What is the percentage of offenders that return to the community?
90%
100
Early forms of punishment included...
whipping, stoning, banishment, forced labor
100
Who is the largest customer of the Federal Prison Industries?
The Department of Defense
100
Name the TYPE of punishment used prior to incarceration.
Corporal Punishment
200
Hispanics are imprisoned at a rate roughly _____ times higher than whites.
three
200
The first house of corrections was opened in what city?
London
200
What's the name of the main character in The Shawshank Redemption?
Andy Dufresne
200
Name two types of offenders that should remain in prison.
Pedophiles, murderers, rapists, terrorists, and extremely violent offenders.
300
African Americans are imprisoned at a rate roughly _____ times higher than whites.
seven
300
Crime was considered a ___
Sin
300
The following quote is from what prison movie that involved death row inmates "Please boss, don't put that thing over my face, don't put me in the dark. I's afraid of the dark."?
The Green Mile
300
What group of people (in America) came up with the idea of incarcerating offenders as a means to repent and pray for forgiveness?
The Quakers
400
In 2011 the federal prison system was __% above capacity.
39%
400
Michael David Elliot broke out of what prison recently?
Ionia Correctional Facility
400
If you were to ask former Kalamazoo Public Safety Officer Mike McCaw the best way to reduce incarceration his response wouldn't include...
Community Policing
400
What famous person is quoted in saying "I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body.”?
Charles Dickens
500
Nearly __ percent of inmates who re-offend within three years do so within the first six months.
50%
500
Who was the reformer for women's prisons that taught women proper manners, etiquette, and reinforced traditional roles for women?
Elizabeth Fry
500
The United States now has 5% of the world’s population, yet ___ % of its prisoners.
25%
500
In what year and city was the first prison in America built?