Exam 12: The Prison Experience and Prisoner Reentry

What is meant by a " total institution"? Discuss how it applies within today's prison culture. ​

Whoare the officers whoare responsible for staying alert for breaches in prison discipline or regulations in the relatively unstructured environment of the prison yard? ​

A prisoner today is much more likely tohave been incarcerated on a drug charge or immigration violation than was the case in the 1980s. ​

An act of executive clemency that overturns a conviction and erases mention of the crime from the person ' s criminal record is referred toas: ​

organized activities for inmates that are designed toimprove their physical and mental health, provide them with skills, or simply keep them busy while incarcerated are______________________.

List and discuss John Irwin's four patterns of inmate conduct.

As deputy warden of a maximum security prison near Los Angeles, you have a high concentration of gang members from different ethnic and racial groups that are literally at war with one another. over the past month, you have had three violent gang-related attacks between rival gangs, and one gang attack on a staff member. The warden has tasked you with attempting tofigure out how best tohouse these rival gangs, alsoknown as security threat groups, tolower the rate of violence within prison walls. You are considering a plan tosegregate inmates by ethnic and racial lines, however, you know that the Supreme Court ruled more than four decades agothat racial segregation is not lawful, unless it is deemed an emergency situation. What will you doand why? Please fully explain.

Websites that provide sex offender registry information are considered a form of passive notification. ​

Federal and state laws nolonger restrict public housing options for ex-convicts. ​

In the highly regulated, oppressive environment of the prison, correctional officers must use the threat of violence, if not actual violence, toinstill discipline and keep order. ​

Laws that require local law authorities toalert the public when a sex offender has been released intothe community are   _______________________________laws. ​

Female correctional officers are less effective than their male counterparts in maintaining discipline in men's prisons. ​

These officers perform maintenance and security functions in workshop and educational programs. ​

In recent years, the most significant demographic change in the prison population involves age.

In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court find that severe overcrowding in California state prisons denied inmates satisfactory levels of mental and physical health care, and therefore amounted toEighth Amendment violations of cruel and unusual punishment? ​

one piece of technology has made the task of controlling prison gangs extremely difficult: the cell phone. Although inmates are prohibited from possessing these devices, cell phones are routinely used toarrange attacks, plan escapes, and operate illegal money-making schemes from behind bars. The phones are usually smuggled in by visitors, whohide them in locations as varied as babies' diapers, food packages, soda cans, and body cavities. As Superintendent of Corrections for the entire state of Maryland, you are now considering the controversial practice of cell phone "jamming"-which is using an antenna or other device todisrupt all cell phone activity over the entire prison compound. According tofederal law, this practice is supposed tobe illegal but you know for a fact that federal bureau of prison officials have been using the technology at federal prisons for a few years. Due tothe widespread gang-related violence at many of the prison facilities throughout your state, often spurred by illegal cell phone usage, you are thinking about going against federal law toimplement "jamming" devices. Based on your situation, how will you proceed and why? Please fully explain your answer.

___________________refers toa standard for establishing a violation of an inmate's Eighth Amendment rights, requiring that prison officials were aware of harmful conditions in a correctional institution and failed totake steps toremedy those conditions.

Contrast parole, expiration release, pardon, and furlough. ​

When inmates try toprove that their Eighth Amendment rights were violated by a correctional facility, they must meet the standard of: ​

Drug and alcohol use within a women ' s prison can be a function of the anger and depression many inmates experience due to: ​