Exam 11: Transition From Confinement to Community

An inmate's salient factor score is used to:

Parole is best defined as:

The problem with accurately determining recidivism rates is that studies of recidivism have tended to use:

Work release is available only to a small percentage of inmates.

Use the following options to identify what is being described in the examples below: -An inmate is released early under correctional supervision in the community, with conditions attached that would permit reincarceration if violated.

Use the following options to identify what is being described in the examples below: -Long after the potential for filing appeals has run out, evidence surfaces which clearly indicates that an inmate was wrongfully convicted. Through executive clemency, the original conviction is "forgiven" and the inmate is released.

Before parole can be revoked, two hearings must be held.

The courts have intervened to ensure that those eligible for parole are protected by certain due process rights, which must be observed in the decision-making process.

Over the years, the objectives of parole have included:

At a parole revocation hearing, the parolee is entitled to testify in person and present witnesses.

Executive clemency in the form of a pardon or commutation can be offered by the:

Use the following options to identify what is being described in the examples below: -An inmate's original sentence of 25 years is reduced by executive clemency to time served.

In order to implement discretionary parole, it is necessary to have:

A state has adopted determinate sentencing, but quickly finds its prisons becoming crowded. To reduce the number of inmates, the legislature passes provisions for awarding good/gain time credits. An inmate is originally sentenced to 5 years. He accrues 2 years of good/gain time credits. Thus, at end of 3 years, he receives:

In most states, members of the parole board obtain their positions through:

On average, today's reentry population differs from those previously released in terms of the fact that they generally have:

As a result of the Morrisey v. Brewer case, those facing parole revocation have all of the due process rights that they had as defendants facing their original criminal charges in a court of law.

An inmate who is denied parole can be reconsidered again at a future date.

Inmates are entitled to appeal the denial of parole.

While this is changing somewhat today, in the past, discretionary decisions of parole boards were largely based on their: