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19 Cards in this Set
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Pennsylvania system |
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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Auburn system |
A philosophy of imprisonment that emphasized labor and meditation. Offenders worked every day, but they did so in complete silence. |
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reformatory movement |
Late-nineteenth-century trend toward use of incarceration to reform through education. |
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maximum security |
Prisons that house dangerous felons and that usually have a wall surrounding the entire facility; about 26 percent of all inmates are incarcerated in such institutions. |
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medium security |
Prisons that have some facilities outside the main enclosure and are surrounded by two rows of chain-link fence, topped with barbed wire; half of all inmates are serving time in these institutions. |
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minimum security |
Prison facilities that usually have no fences but have locking outside doors and electronic surveillance devices around the perimeter of the institution; about 23 percent of all inmates are in these institutions. |
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penitentiaries |
Maximum security federal correctional institutions. |
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correctional institutions |
Medium security federal correctional institutions. |
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metropolitan correctional centers (detention centers) |
Federal jail facilities for pretrial detention and for those serving short sentences. |
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jails |
Facilities operated by countries 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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recidivism |
Repeat offenses by an offender |
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control model |
Prison management approach characterized by strict enforcement of prison rules and few privileges for prisoners. |
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responsibility model |
Prison management approach that gives inmates more autonomy; staff guides prisoners' decision making rather than making all decision for them. |
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consensual model |
Prison management approach that maintains order by agreement between inmates and staff on the validity of rules. |
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therapeutic community model |
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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Average felony sentencing |
It is five years |
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Probation officer |
State employee that handles the offender before the sentencing |
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Parole officer |
State employee that are responsible for supervising the offenders after released from prison |
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Corporal punishment |
Before the invention of prison, this was used as the primary method of punishment |
