Exam 6: Facility Design and Classification in Jails and Prisons

Define perimeter security system.

Security threat groups (STG) refer to the various gangs that existed in and outside of prison.

The area between the inner and outer fences is often referred to as the isolation zone.

In correctional facilities, what occur when areas of the prison are not easily viewed by security staff and/or surveillance equipment?

Which style of prison has a number of individual buildings that are not connected?

Some prison facilities have begun to use wristbands with bar codes that are used to track inmates throughout the prison.

What is usually a board with the silhouette of the item drawn on the board so that missing kitchen tools can be quickly identified?

What are prefabricated sections in most modern prisons that inmates will usually have individual cells with doors controlled from a secure remote control station?

The campus style has linear cell blocks interconnected around a central enclosed space.

What are compassionate prison designs?

The use of automated classification systems is now standard practice in both prisons and community-based correctional agencies.

A special closed-custody unit was designed at ______ to house the BOP's worst inmates.

The Bastille was a fortification built in the city of ______ and was a symbol of tyranny and injustice for both commoners and political prisoners.

The ______ was designed to allow security personnel to clearly observe all inmates without the inmates themselves being able to tell whether they were being watched.

Western State Penitentiary, built in ______ was based on the Bastille blueprint design.

______ is a type of classification that is nonpunitive in nature but requires the separation of inmates from the general population due to the threat that they may pose to themselves, staff, other inmates, or institutional order.

Which of the following is a recreational activity for inmates that might be found in a correctional facility?

The case of Madrid v. Gomez (1995) involved operations of the special housing unit at which California prison?

The type of physical barriers that are utilized to prevent inmates' escape and are related to public safety concerns are known as ______.

A prison's ______ security system is, ideally, a collection of components or elements that, when assembled in a carefully formulated configuration, achieve the objective of confinement with a high degree of confidence.