Exam 12: Jails and Prisons

The process of determining which inmates go to which institutions and what the specific conditions of their confinement will be is referred to as:

________ is confinement against one's will in the criminal justice system (in a jail or prison)or a mental health facility (a secure psychiatric institution).

The most common form of treatment for mentally ill inmates is:

From 1970 to 1991,the U.S.Supreme Court:

Prison gangs are also referred to as:

Upon entering prison,most inmates go through a process where they learn and adopt the values and norms of the prison.Some of these values and norms include not portraying themselves as weak or needy,not associating with corrections officers,and not snitching on others.The norms and values of prisons that inmates learn is referred to as the:

Steve is a convicted sex offender who has been in prison for 15 years.His sentence is completed,but authorities are worried that he might commit future sex offenses.Because of this fear,Steve is released from prison and held in an institution indefinitely.Steve has been:

According to a study conducted in 2013,the majority of jail inmates:

Jack and Jill have both been convicted of possession of illegal drugs and have been sentenced.Jack is sentenced to nine months of incarceration,while Jill has been sentenced to 18 months of incarceration.Jack will most likely serve his sentence in a:

Most male inmates divide themselves by:

Many inmates who are raped in prison do not report these rapes.The reluctance of rape victims to report their victimization and the general underreporting of rape incidents can be attributed to:

Approximately ________ of incarcerated women have minor children (under the age of 18).

The case of Cooper v.Pate gave inmates the right to:

________ women make up the largest percentage of female inmates in the United States.

The British have moved away from solitary confinement and developed a strategy to prevent violence in prisons rather than simply punishing inmates after they have committed a violent act.If you are incarcerated in a British prison,you most likely:

Suppose you are incarcerated in a state prison.You are curious about the inmate subculture and inmate code that you keep hearing about and ask some other inmates about it.You also ask them to explain why they think an inmate subculture forms.One inmate,Frank,explains to you that all the things that inmates are deprived of when they are incarcerated,such as freedom,personal liberty,heterosexual relationships,and security,force inmates to create their own subculture.However,another inmate,Carl,disagrees with Frank.He argues that this subculture does not develop in prison;rather,he argues that inmates already hold the values of the prison code on the outside and bring them to prison with them.The process of developing the inmate subculture that Carl is referring to is the:

As a response to the sexual abuse of male and female inmates,President George W.Bush signed the ________ into law in 2003.

Prisons guarded by correctional officers on patrol and in gun towers,with electronic locking systems and massive concrete walls,are most likely to be ________ prisons.

If you have committed a serious crime and have not been granted bail,you will most likely be held in a ________ while awaiting trial.

The most common educational requirement for correctional officers is a: