Exam 13: Prisons and Jails

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. -Privatization of prisons is a hot topic in today's discussion of inmate incarceration.List three advantages and three disadvantages for privatizing prisons.What are your views about privatization?

A(n)________ system is used by prison administrators to assign inmates to custody levels based on offense history,assessed dangerousness,perceived risk of escape,and other factors.

_____________ are jails that are built and run using the combine resources of a variety of local jurisdictions.

Provide detailed and comprehensive information to support your answer. Use examples where applicable to support your answers. -One of the best known internal classification systems in use today,in prisons,is the adult internal management system (AIMS).AIMS assess an inmate's predatory potential by quantifying three aspects of the inmate's history.List and define those three aspects and explain how effective on ineffective you feel they are.

The Auburn system of imprisonment became popular during which prison era?

The term "stir crazy" grew out of the experiences of many inmates during which prison era?

How many security levels are there in the federal prison system?

Work release is representative of which era in the development of U.S.prisons?

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

A private prison:

The _____________ has established a Commission on Accreditation to develop a set of standards that correctional institutions can use for conducting self-evaluations.

ADMAX or Administrative maximum is the term used by the federal government to denote:

Provide detailed and comprehensive information to support your answer. Use examples where applicable to support your answers. -During the Industrial Era prisons intended to capitalize on the labor of convicts by using them as laborers in the community.Define and describe three of the six different systems of inmate labor in use in the early twentieth century.

The stocks and the pillory are examples of what type of punishment?

___________ is most noted as the originator of what we know as today's early release program.

Historically,the most widely used of physical punishments was flogging.