Exam 10: Corrections

The Supreme Court, in _________, ruled that before probation can be revoked, a two-stage hearing must be held.

Jean Luetin sits on the governor's committee on corrections and community welfare. She is to work with this panel to decrease the state's prison population. She and the other board members do not see eye to eye. Ms. Luetin feels that this is going to be quite the challenge, but will take advantage of every opportunity to improve the correctional facility. ​ Ms. Luetin also is arguing that there must be a budget reduction of correctional employees based upon prison construction, which began in the 1990s. The problem is that the new prisons are already filled to capacity. One way to empty these prisons is to put the inmates:

​Joan has been arrested for forgery and passing bad checks.  She is awaiting trial.

Supermax prisons:

Gia Long is a correctional officer in a state correctional facility. She splits her time between a female facility and a male facility. Since she started her position, she has devised several ideas she would like to implement. Gia would like to implement a classification system for the men in her unit. She would like to classify each prison's security level. Gia will classify them as:

State corrections systems include all of the following except:

Which of the following statements concerning crime rates and the prison population is true?

The period of history in which philosophers and reformers began to challenge the prison tradition with new ideas about the individual, limits of government, and rationalism was known as the:

Prisons that are managed by corporations are called ____________________ prisons.

Compare and contrast state prison systems with that of jails.

Approximately 95 percent of the cost of all correctional activities in the United States is paid by:

Most inmates in jails are completing one-year sentences for misdemeanors.

The Declaration of Principles concerning corrections addressed the issue of female prisoners.

Which of the following statements does not reflect a principle of the separate confinement system?

Deputy Nelson is a captain for a jail in the county in which he lives. He has seen many changes in his 25-year career. As he nears retirement, his supervisor wants his input for changes he would like to see made for the new generation of employees. ​ Deputy Nelson has the biggest meeting on Monday morning. He is meeting with his highest supervisor, which would be?

Under the New York system, prisoners produced goods for sale to cover operating costs.

Jean Luetin sits on the governor's committee on corrections and community welfare. She is to work with this panel to decrease the state's prison population. She and the other board members do not see eye to eye. Ms. Luetin feels that this is going to be quite the challenge, but will take advantage of every opportunity to improve the correctional facility. ​ Both Ms. Luetin and the board determine that they must set up intensive counseling in prison of both sexes and even juveniles to assist in fighting one of the largest prison population problems, which is:

In which case did  the Supreme Court rule that parolees facing revocation must be given a two-stage hearing process ?

Which U.S. Supreme Court established that racial discrimination will not be the official policy within prison walls and that segregation can only be justified in rare instances?

Which of the following correctional models is based upon the assumption that the goal of corrections should be to reintegrate the offender into the community?