Exam 10: Origins and Organization of Jails and Prisons

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The control model is a prison management approach characterized by strict enforcement of prison rules and few privileges for prisoners.

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__________ security prison facilities usually have no fences but have locking outside doors and electronic surveillance devices around the perimeter of the institution.

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Medium security federal correctional institutions are called __________.

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The __________ is a prison management approach characterized by strict enforcement of prison rules and few privileges for prisoners.

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Federal jail facilities for pretrial detention and for those serving short sentences are called __________.

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The therapeutic community model is a prison drug treatment approach based on the notion that a person's attitudes,values,and self-esteem must change together with the targeted drug use behavior in order to create lasting change.

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The __________ is a prison drug treatment approach based on the notion that a person's attitudes,values,and self-esteem must change together with the targeted drug use behavior in order to create lasting change.

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Match the state or federal correctional system to its description.
Correctional institutions
Facilities operated by counties and municipalities to hold twomain categories of inmates: those awaiting trial and those serving sentences of one year or less.
Metropolitan correctional centers (detention centers)
Federal jail facilities for pretrial detention and for those serving short sentences.
Jails
Maximum security federal correctional institutions.
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Correctional institutions
Facilities operated by counties and municipalities to hold twomain categories of inmates: those awaiting trial and those serving sentences of one year or less.
Metropolitan correctional centers (detention centers)
Federal jail facilities for pretrial detention and for those serving short sentences.
Jails
Maximum security federal correctional institutions.
Penitentiaries
Medium security federal correctional institutions.
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Does the experience of imprisonment deter recidivism,or reoffending upon release? Please explain.

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The Pennsylvania system is a philosophy of imprisonment that emphasized labor and meditation.In this system,offenders worked every day,but they did so in complete silence.

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Prisons that have some facilities outside the main enclosure and are surrounded by two rows of chain-link fence,topped with barbed wire are at the __________ level.

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Jails are facilities operated by counties and municipalities to hold two main categories of inmates: those awaiting trial and those serving sentences of one year or less.

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A __________ works for the courts of a particular county or city,conducts investigations to assist the judge in sentencing,and supervises and monitors juvenile and adult offenders in the community.

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__________ are facilities operated by counties and municipalities to hold two main categories of inmates: those awaiting trial and those serving sentences of one year or less.

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Match the model of prison administration to its definition.
Control model
Prison management approach that gives inmates more autonomy;staff guides prisoners’ decision making rather than making all decisions for them.
Responsibility model
Prison management approach characterized by strict enforcement of prison rules and few privileges for prisoners.
Consensus model
Prison management approach that maintains order by agreement between inmates and staff on the validity of rules.
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Control model
Prison management approach that gives inmates more autonomy;staff guides prisoners’ decision making rather than making all decisions for them.
Responsibility model
Prison management approach characterized by strict enforcement of prison rules and few privileges for prisoners.
Consensus model
Prison management approach that maintains order by agreement between inmates and staff on the validity of rules.
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A philosophy of imprisonment that promoted repentance through solitary confinement and prevented offenders from being corrupted by mixing with other offenders is called the ___________.

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Prison facilities that usually have no fences but have locking outside doors and electronic surveillance devices around the perimeter of the institution are at the ___________ level.

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The __________ model is a prison management approach characterized by strict enforcement of prison rules and few privileges for prisoners.

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A __________ is a state employee,often with police powers,responsible for supervising offenders after they are released from prison.

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The __________system is a philosophy of imprisonment that promoted repentance through solitary confinement and prevented offenders from being corrupted by mixing with other offenders.

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