Deck 10: Prisons and Jails

Question 1

Which group best describes federal prison inmates?

A) Defendants awaiting trial for federal offenses
B) Offenders who have been convicted of a federal offense
C) Offenders who have been convicted of a felony in the District of Columbia
D) All of the above

Answer 1

All of the above

Question 2

These federal prisons have dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and little or no perimeter fencing. They may also be called federal prison camps.

A) Minimum-security institutions
B) Low-security institutions
C) Medium-security institutions
D) Administrative facilities

Answer 2

Minimum-security institutions

Question 3

Which is not a function that a state prison intake facility would perform?

A) Identify the prisoner
B) Ask what the prisoner likes to eat and do for recreation
C) Assess the prisoner's medical and mental health
D) Determine the prisoner's custody level

Answer 3

Ask what the prisoner likes to eat and do for recreation

Question 4

In this case, the Supreme Court decided that there is no "special circumstances" exception to the Prison Litigation Reform Act's requirement that plaintiffs exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit.

A) Terry v. Ohio
B) Ross v. Blake
C) Gideon v. Wainwright
D) Cooper v. Pate

Question 5

This prison reformer advocated for separate prison facilities for women, prisoner education, less hard labor.

A) Elizabeth Fry
B) Zebulon Brockway
C) Cesare Beccaria
D) George Papanikolaou

Question 6

In Carroll County, Georgia, the Jack T. Bell Detention Center typically holds arrestees, criminal suspects, and inmates serving sentences less than a year. What kind of facility is it?

A) Stockade
B) Penitentiary
C) Prison
D) jail

Question 7

The number of carceral facilities a state varies little.

Question 8

Only the federal government has intake facilities or procedures that classify incoming prisoners by security level, as well as other factors, and sends them to the appropriate facilities.

Question 9

Women's prisons are much like men's prisons.

Question 10

In the federal prison system, many prisoners are not taken into custody upon conviction, but are allowed to self-surrender.