Exam 6: Prisons

An approach to prison management that is focused on anticipating problems before they occur is a:

Staff ____________ offers one of the brightest hopes for internal change in state corrections, and staff development has become a major emphasis of some states' corrections departments.

Inmates usually have less than a year before release when they are moved to minimum security facilities.

More than 40 states have either built supermax prisons or added high-security units to existing facilities in order to contain problem prisoners.

Discuss the legal issues surrounding private corrections and the rulings of Richardson v. McKnight and Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko.

The highest level of incarceration is in the ____________________ prison.

Federal penitentiaries have serious problems with which of the following?

Most maximum security prisons in American were built using the courtyard style design.

Federal prisons have the same problem with overcrowding as state prisons.

Which prison design allows for some freedom of movement where prison units are housed in a complex of buildings surrounded by a fence?

Proactive wardens hold that an anticipatory and preventive approach is fundamental to maintain institutional control.

Currently, the Federal Bureau of Prison is responsible for roughly ____percent of our nations 1,500,000 prisoners.

The largest privately owned and operated prison company in the U.S. is the ______________________.