Exam 7: Correctional Facilities

Most early prisons tended to be located in metropolitan areas.

The area between the inner and outer fences is often referred to as the __________. This area is designed to prevent undetected access to the outer fencing of the prison facility.

Many modern facilities already use camera surveillance to monitor and record inmate visitation rooms as a means of supervising visits and detecting the exchange of drugs or other contraband between inmates.

The physical design of a prison has little importance to the facility's operation.

__________ in correctional facilities can occur when the design has certain areas of the prison that are obscured from easy view of security staff and/or surveillance equipment.

The National Directory of Corrections Construction classified prisons into five general types. Which style has a number of individual buildings that are not connected?

The deadly prison riot in New York Prison at Attica in 1971 led to what type of prison design?

The first true federal supermax facility was _________.

Additional services, such as religion and recreation, eliminate idle inmate hands and minds and also give administrators some leverage in the control of inmate behavior.

Supermax facilities can be freestanding facilities where the entire facility consists of this higher security level or they can be a specified section of the facility that has additional security features that make it a supermax facility.

When prisons were first designed, they were designed as this type of facility.

Which is not a term for supermax facilities.

Which is not a component of perimeter security?

Which Supreme Court case established that an inmate must demonstrate that the prison official(s) were deliberately indifferent to "substantial risk of serious harm" to the inmate in order to establish liability under the Eighth Amendment?

Much of the newer prison construction during the past 40-50 years has consisted of this facility design.

Identify and discuss the three different modern security-level facility designs for prisons.

The National Directory of Corrections Construction classified prisons into five general types. Which style has linear cell blocks interconnected around a central enclosed space?

Supermax facilities provide the highest level of prison security.

In regard to inmate identification, new processes continue to be developed to enhance institutional security.

Movement of inmates out of the cell block or pod often requires restraints and security staff escorts.