Prisons and Jails
The set of informal norms, rules, and values among prison inmates is known by this name.
What is the prison code?
The discouragement or prevention of crimes through the fear of punishment.
What is deterrence?
During this early step in the criminal process, a judge formally advises the defendant of the charges and their right to an attorney.
What is an advisement (or arraignment)?
Before it was renamed Orlando, the early settlement was known by this fruit-inspired name.
What is Jernigan? (or Oswego)
Established in Orlando in 1988, this massive Florida Department of Corrections facility serves as a primary state intake and processing center for newly sentenced adult male inmates.
What is the Central Florida Reception Center (CFRC)?
This historical system based on the Quakers' "separate and silent" model isolated inmates in individual cells.
What is the Pennsylvania System?
Sentences that are served one after the other rather than at the same time are called this.
What are consecutive sentences?
Criminal court cases are officially instituted when the police take this action against a suspect.
What is an arrest?
Local legend says the city was named after Orlando Reeves, a soldier who died during this 19th-century conflict against Native American tribes.
What is the Second Seminole War?
In the mid-20th century, Orange County operated a self-sufficient "prison farm" near Lake Catherine where inmates raised hogs, grew vegetables, and worked local roads under a tough disciplinarian named Captain Pitts.
What was the Orange County Prison Farm?
This is statistically the most common cause of death among inmates in correctional facilities.
What is suicide?
A prison sentence with a flexible duration (e.g., "5 to 10 years") tied to parole eligibility.
What is an indeterminate sentence?
The vast majority (over 90%) of criminal convictions in the U.S. are resolved via this out-of-court process rather than a trial.
What is a plea bargain?
Long before theme parks arrived, Orlando was known as the "Phenomenal City" due to its massive boom in this agricultural industry.
What is the citrus industry (or orange groves)?
Located on Bumby Avenue in Orlando, this secure 110-bed local facility is run by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice to house youth ages 8 to 18 who are awaiting trial.
What is the Orange Regional Juvenile Detention Center?
Federal Correctional Complexes house inmates who have committed these specific types of offenses.
What are federalized (or federal) crimes?
These detailed scoring instruments are prepared by probation officers to help judges determine appropriate prison time.
What are sentencing guidelines?
Name and define the two main types of deterrence.
What are general deterrence (stopping the general public from committing crime) and specific deterrence (stopping the individual offender from reoffending)?
During World War II, Orlando's Army Air Base became a major training hub, and this historic downtown park served as a popular recreation spot for servicemen.
What is Eola Park?
Orange County Corrections runs a specialized pretrial program where first-time, non-violent offenders can take community service and counseling classes to get their charges entirely dropped.
What is Pretrial Diversion?
This sociological term describes the process by which an inmate absorbs the customs and-hidden rules of prison society.
What is prisonization?
This landmark 1976 Supreme Court case temporarily halted the death penalty, ruling it was being administered in an unconstitutional manner.
What is Furman v. Georgia?
This specialized court model (first started in Miami in 1989) diverts non-violent substance-abusing offenders into treatment programs instead of jail.
What is a drug court (or treatment court)?
In 1956, this major defense and aerospace company opened a massive plant in Orlando, transforming the local economy by introducing thousands of high-tech engineering jobs.
What is Martin Marietta? (now Lockheed Martin)
Until the late 19th century, executions in Orange County were conducted in public outside a brick jailhouse located right on this prominent downtown Orlando avenue.
What is Orange Avenue?