The conditional release of a prison inmate from incarceration, under supervision, after part of the prison sentence has been served.
What is parole?
Seeks to keep offenders in the community by building ties to family, employment, and other normal sources of stability and success.
What is community corrections?
What are the four competing philosophies of corrections?
Retribution, Deterrence, Incapacitation, Rehabilitation.
The infliction of pain on the body of an offender as punishment. Used most frequently during the American founding.
Corporal Punishment
Fines, restitution, community service and boot camps are all examples of
What are intermediate sanctions?
The amount of time one must serve in GA before being eligible for parole
What is 1/3 of the sentence?
The conditional release of an offender into the community under the supervision of correctional officials. As the sentence rather than a part of reentry
What is probation?
We watched a guy make it out of oranges and ketchup. Drank by prisoners, some of which have dependencies.
What is pruno, prison wine, toilet wine?
The three levels of security in GA prisons
What are minimum, medium, and close security?
Remember to watch either Solitary Nation or Life on Parole before the exam.
Instructions on ELC.
The amount of time an inmate goes without violating facility rules, can reduce punishment .
What is "Good time"?
Compared to jails, parole, and prison, probation is the _______ in population size
What is the largest?
In prison, as outside, individuals want goods and services. So they turn to the _______ ______. An informal marketplace where favors and items are traded.
What is the inmate (prison) economy?
The _____ movement of the late 1800's/early 1900's. Indeterminate sentences, classification of prisoners on character and powerful parole boards were the norm.
What is the Reformatory movement?
The Alcatraz of the Rockies.
What is ADX Florence or the Federal Supermax?
Name 3 ways convictions can hurt ex-cons reentering society
-Denial of welfare benefits such as food stamps -Loss of access to public housing -Prohibition on receiving student loans -Loss of voting rights in some states -Separation from family, employment or education
Two ways to leave probation. One is good, the other is not.
What is termination & revocation?
Currently far more ______ ____ _______ live in the nation’s jails and prisons than in state hospitals
What is mentally ill people?
The US is the world leader in punishments of this type.
What is incarceration?
Jails were used for these types of offenders in the colonial period. Very different from today.
Who are debtors?
Loss of independence and responsibility that makes one incapable of living in society.
What is institutionalization?
The public supports probation for _______ _______ offenses.
What is non-violent?
What works in reducing recidivism?
Separating low risk from high risk, treating criminogenic needs, community corrections, treatment generally better than punishment
________ _______ is the idea that offender can be embarrassed into conforming to the law. Prominent in the American early period!
What is public shaming?
The movement centered on silence, labor, isolation, and reformation.
What is penitentiary movement?