Exam 4: Jail and Detention Facilities

Requirements of the ______ are used to guide agencies and training facilities in a number of states toward ensuring that jail officers have the requisite skills needed to perform their job assignment(s).

Data from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC, 2002) suggest that many jails are not adequately addressing all of the following communicable diseases except ______.

In the past few years, a rise in the number (and proportion) of which group of inmates who are housed in jails has occurred?

Turnover is very High, with many jails reporting a complete change in staff every ______.

Define shock incarceration. What is the purpose of shock incarceration?

What history were only 38.1% of inmates who committed suicide identified as having during the intake process?

Most jails are operated by ______.

What is designed to enable officers to keep an electronic duty log to report activities or information for other officers?

Jail facilities around the nation process roughly ______ the number of persons than is reflected in a count taken on any given day of the year.

Under what type of specialized sentence are offenders sentenced to a specified term of confinement that can include up to half their original sentence, after which they finish the remainder of their sentence on probation?

Jails in England were referred to as ______ during the Middle Ages.

Female inmates indicated a cancer rate that was nearly 8 times that of male inmates, with the most common form of cancer for women being cervical.

How have communicable diseases affected jail operations during recent years?

What entry design allows security staff to bring vehicles close to the admissions area in a secure fashion?

While larger jail systems may have more staff and the ability to provide more extensive services than systems located in rural regions of the United States, it seems that these services are just enough to meet the demand.

During the 1980s, which new kind of jail came under construction in the United States?

What California state policy was designed to reduce the prison population, in part by placing new nonviolent, nonserious, nonsex offenders under county jurisdiction for incarceration in local jail facilities?

In many states, sheriffs have begun to see the operation of which facilities as a potential money-making endeavor by using them as overflow facilities for a fee?

The majority of infractions that entail contact with jails include misdemeanor crimes, ______ issues, domestic crimes, and public safety issues.

Jail inmates tend to have mental health problems with specific diagnoses that include all of the following except ______.