Locally operated correctional facilities that confine people before or after conviction.
What are jails?
100
The historical phase of prisons that emphasized harsh discipline
What is the Auburn system?
100
Prisoners who exhibit unique physical, mental, social, and programmatic needs that distinguish them from other prisoners
What are special needs inmates?
100
The term used to describe prison gangs.
What are security threat groups?
200
The name of the first jail in the United States.
What is the Walnut Street Jail?
200
The number of inmates that a planners or architects intended for the facility to hold.
What is design capacity?
200
A residential treatment program where inmates are housed in a separate unit within a prison facility and is characterized by highly structured drug treatment.
What is a therapeutic community
200
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?
300
The generation of jails that uses podular remote supervision.
What are second generation jails?
300
The most powerful tool prison administrators have in managing crowding and idleness.
What are work assignments?
300
The percent of prisoners with substance abuse addiction receive drug treatment while incarcerated.
What is 11.2%?
300
The three ways in which privatization occurs in a correctional setting.
What are private management, private sector development, and private services provision?
400
Sexual contact, both willing and unwilling, between an inmate and another inmate or an inmate and a staff member.
What is sexual victimization?
400
The current era of prison development
What is the just deserts era?
400
3 of the 6 reasons why it is difficult to treat inmates with HIV/AIDS
1) Unaware infected;
2) Privacy issue;
3) Frequency of medication disrupts prison routine;
4) Distrust of medical/legal systems;
5) Fear of side effects;
6) Lower quality of health care in prisons
400
The 5 theoretical reasons for why prison riots might occur.
1. Random chance
2. Bad conditions
3. Rebellious inmates and racial antagonism
4. Poor institutional structure and readiness
5. Poor administrative factors
500
The percent of people in local jails currently awaiting trial.
What is 63%
500
The Supreme Court case which ruled that inadequate mental and physical health care in California’s prisons was due to extreme overcrowding and required California to reduce its prison population.
What is Brown v. Plata?
500
Characteristics of most effective prison drug treatment programs
1. Start 9 months to 1 year before release
2. Provide aftercare services
3. Retain staff who are concerned with inmate’s welfare
4. Provide offenders with program policies
500
The effects of long term solitary confinement talked about in class
1. Sensory deprivation
2. Paranoid delusions
3. Irrational fears of violence
4. Mental breakdowns
5. Anxiety
6. Depression
7. High rates of suicide
8. Difficulty coping in social situations