Prisoners places
Correctional facility generally run by state or federal government and housing long-term inmates
What is prison?
program in which detainees or inmates are permitted to be employed or participate in educational programs, but must return to the facility at the end of each workday
What is work release program?
Daily Double: person who persistently violates laws and has multiple arrests and convictions over an extended time
What is a chronic offender?
Daily Double: uniformed staff in a correctional facility who have law enforcement powers and receive training to meet state and agency standards
What is sworn staff?
Daily Double: release of a defendant while awaiting a court hearing granted on certain terms
What is a conditional release?
Daily Double: correctional facility typically run by local law enforcement and housing detainees and short-term inmates
What is a jail?
Daily Double: program allowing inmates to leave the correctional facility for a short period to participate in approved activities
What is temporary-release program?
person who is incarcerated while awaiting trial for an alleged crime
What is a detainee?
staff within a correctional facility who have no law enforcement authority
What is civilian staff?
prohibited item or substance which is smuggled into a correctional facility
What is contraband?
restriction of an offender to a certain residence for a specified period except during designated times for authorized activities
What is home confinement?
component of the correctional system offering viable alternatives to incarceration such as community service, probation, home confinement, etc
What is community corrections?
release of a prisoner from imprisonment but not from legal custody and supervision
What is parole?
a person tasked with ensuring that their correctional facility is safe for both the staff and the inmates.
What is a prison warden?
days deducted from an inmate’s incarceration sentence for good behavior
What are good-time credits?
prison owned and operated by a private company contracted by a federal or state correctional agency
What is private prison?
release of a defendant while awaiting a court hearing granted on certain terms
What is conditional release?
individual convicted of a crime and committed to the custody of a jail or prison
What is an inmate?
provides medical services to inmates in prison.
What is a prison doctor/physician?
Daily Double: What is a formal word for being in jail or having been in jail?
What is incarceration?
sanction ordered by a court for a convicted offender
What is a sentence?
segregation of a detainee or inmate within a correctional facility for his or her own safety
What is protective custody?
Daily Double: sentencing option in which the convicted offender is required to fulfill certain conditions
What is probation?
administer, supervise, and perform work involved in a program of spiritual welfare and religious guidance for inmates in a correctional setting.
What is a prison chaplain?
legal process in which an offender’s probation or parole is recalled because he or she fails to comply with the terms of release
What is revocation?