Exam 13: Prisons and Jails

Which early prison system was heralded as the one that was humane and provided inmates with the opportunity for rehabilitation?

The ________________ in New York State is considered the birth place of parole in the United States and was based on the concept of an earned early release.

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column. -Operational Capacity

________ is the movement toward the wider use of private prisons.

__________ is an imprisonment strategy that is based on the desire to prevent recurrent crime and that has abandoned all hope of rehabilitation.

According to the text the largest growing population of jail inmates is:

________ release is a prison program through which inmates are temporarily released into the community to meet job responsibilities.

The California Department of Corrections had an unwritten policy of racially segregating prisoners in order to prevent racial violence.In 2005 the U.S.Supreme Court reviewed that policy and held that it:

Lex Talionis is also known as:

Which of the following is a characteristic of jails?

Physical barriers in direct-supervision jails are far more common than in traditional jails.

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column. -Rated Capacity

Provide detailed and comprehensive information to support your answer. Use examples where applicable to support your answers. -Before the development of prisons there were other early forms of punishment,including flogging.Describe some other early forms of punishment that often were cruel and harmful to the convicted person.List at least three different early forms of punishment and give examples of each.

The Just Deserts philosophy has led to substantial and continued increases in the American prison population.

Provide detailed and comprehensive information to support your answer. Use examples where applicable to support your answers. -The Bureau of Prisons classifies its institutions into five categories.List and define those five categories and give examples of the type of inmate that is sent to each prison.

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column. -Design Capacity

Answer each part of the following questions with succinct and comprehensive information by citing examples of various models, laws, and justice theories in your answer. -The overcrowding of jails continues to be a major problem for the correctional system throughout the United States.There are many explanations for this overcrowding,for example in 2009 there were over 86,000 state and federal inmates being held in jails.List and describe at least three other causes for overcrowding.What is your opinion on reducing the inmate population in the country's jails,other than opening the door and letting them out.

The Warehousing Era is a correctional model intended to capitalize on the labor of convicts sentenced to confinement.

Provide detailed and comprehensive information to support your answer. Use examples where applicable to support your answers. -Today's jails serve many different purposes.Other than holding suspects following arrest and pending trial describe and define three of additional purposes they serve.

Selective incapacitation is a strategy used by some states to reduce prison populations.