Exam 11: Prisons and Jails

A(n) _____ is a process of prison and jail administration in which correctional officers are in continuous visual contact with inmates during the day.

What are the arguments against private prisons?

Theoretically, jail officials who have constant contact with inmates will be able to:

A case manager is the prison official who is ultimately responsible for the organization and performance of a correctional facility.

Explain the consequences of America's high rates of incarceration.

Separate confinement is a nineteenth-century penitentiary system developed in New York in which inmates were kept in separate cells during the night but worked together in the daytime in silence.

Identify a method used by decarceration policies to reduce the number of offenders in prison.

Which of the following is true of minimum-security prisons?

Starting in 1987, Congress implemented the policy of parole in the federal corrections system.

In the eighteenth century, which of the following sanctions was generally imposed by English courts on convicted felons?

Many jails operate on the principle of a _____, in which a government agency reimburses the sheriff's department.

Unlike the criminal code adopted by the correctional system in the American colonies, William Penn's "Great Law" required that felons:

Decreasing the rate of release of nonviolent offenders from prison increases the rate of decarceration.

In Bell v. Wolfish (1979), the United States Supreme Court recognized that:

A judge will often credit an offender's time served toward his or her sentence. Identify a reality of jails acknowledged by this practice.

Some critics see private prisons as inherently unjust because:

Which of the following is a similarity between the management structures of police departments and prisons?

Following the classification process, the security designation given to new inmates is known as _____.

Discuss the factors influencing the growth of the American prison population.

Private corrections firms have an incentive to buy goods and services at the lowest possible price because of the profit motive.