Terms Chapter 7-11
A criminal organization that originated within the penal system and operates within correctional facilities throughout the United States
What is a security threat group?
A local secure facility designed to house offenders, usually for one year or less, or those awaiting trial.
What is a jail?
The amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the right to a "speedy and public trial".
What is the 6th Amendment?
The process of detecting inmate contraband by a manual search of an inmate's body.
What is a frisk search?
The level of control exercised over offenders in correctional facilities.
What is custody?
The process of assigning inmates to housing units and programming.
What is classification?
The type of supervisory arrangement allows an offender to retain his or her employment while fulfilling his or her jail time on non-working day.
The chief executive officer in a prison.
Who is a warden?
The process of detecting inmate contraband by searching an inmate's cell.
What is a shakedown?
The process by which inmate control and programming are changed.
What is reclassification?
Facilities that are intended to maximize interaction between inmates and staff.
What are new-generation jails?
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What are new-generation direct supervision jails?
The primary mission of corrections.
What is to protect society?
This was created by Congress in 1930 for federal prisons.
What is the Bureau of Prisons?
Two or more simultaneous medical needs for one inmate.
What is comorbidity?
Male military offenders are held in this military institution.
What is Fort Leavenworth?
This type of classification involves a determination regarding whether to send an inmate to a maximum-, medium-, or low-security correctional facility.
What is external classification?
A therapeutic approach that focuses on the ways in which offenders think.
What is cognitive behavior therapy?
Other than security issues, the most expensive area of prison operations.
What is medical care for inmates?
The Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th Amendment?
Any law enforcement practice designed to confront and stop the activities of members of an STG within a correctional facility.
What is interdiction?