Exam 11: Prisons and Jails

The Walnut Street Jail failed because inmates succumbed to illness,insanity,and suicide.

The ____ held that institutions should offer a variety of programs and therapies to cure inmates of their "ills," whatever their root causes.

Those who believe that private prisons are a philosophical concern believe that only the ___________________ has the authority to punish wrongdoers and operate prisons.

If Pennsylvania's prisons were designed to transform wrongdoers into honest citizens,those in New York focused on:

_________________________ are those who deal with the inmates and make up more than half a prison's staff.

The "new penology" was put into practice at New York's Elmira Reformatory in 1876.

Why does a supermax prison work toward strict control of an inmates' movement within the facility?

The prison official ultimately responsible for the correctional facility is the warden,also known as the ______________________.

Eventually,the penitentiary at Walnut Street succumbed to the same problems that continue to plague institutions of confinement.What were these problems?

Which level of prisons is defined as a "correctional institution designed to allow inmates,most of whom pose low security risks,a great deal of freedom of movement and contact with the outside world?"

A prison is a facility,usually operated by county government,used to hold persons awaiting trial or those who have been found guilty of misdemeanors.

Arguments against private prisons include:

Minorities are disproportionately impacted by disenfranchisement.

A linear designed jail uses direct supervision where one or more jail officers are stationed in the living area of the pod and are in constant interaction with all prisoners in that pod.

Much of the growth in the number of Americans behind bars can be attributed to the enhancement and stricter enforcement of the nation's drug laws.

For most states looking to cut corrections costs,the focus has been on ________________________ which is the reduction of inmate populations.

The number of women incarcerated in prisons has begun to slowly decline.

A common strategy of decarceration is ____________________ the rate of release of nonviolent offenders from prison.

Time spent in jail prior to trial is often credited towards an offender's sentence as __________________.

Discuss new-generation jails.