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If you were charged with a minor offense and sentenced to less than one year of incarceration, you would most likely be incarcerated where?
jail
The majority of jail inmates are in what phases of incarceration?
in the beginning process; jails house pretrial individuals, or those serving short term sentences
Which inmates are most likely to be housed in a supermax prison?
–high level violence prisoners–high ranking gang members
–high escape prisoners
–antagonist/antisocial personalities
– the "worst of the worst"
Suppose you have been convicted of aggravated assault and incarcerated. Because of violence you have committed against other inmates while in prison, you are transferred to a supermax prison for the remainder of your sentence. Once you complete your sentence, you are most likely to be released to where?
directly into the community
The process of determining which inmates go to which institutions and what the specific conditions of their confinement will be is referred to as what?
classification
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 what?
prisonization
Prison gangs are also referred to as what technical term?
security threat group (STG); inmates who, when they collaborate, can jeopardize the institution's security
There are three main ways in which drugs enter prison. What are they?
–Correctional personnel –vendors
–visitors
What is an explanation for the rapid increase in the population of female inmates in the United States?
–increase in crime rate for woman–drug epidemic
–"get tough" movement and harsher policies for dealing with crime
–mandatory sentencing
The majority of the cost of confining senior citizens in prisons and jails can be attributed to what?
the cost of health care
Beginning in the 1950s, most of the mental health hospitals and the United States were closed, and mentally ill individuals were returned to the community. The process of closing mental hospitals and returning the mentally ill to the community is called what?
deinstitutionalization
The agency that deports criminal aliens from the United States is what?
ICE– U.S bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Many states impose restrictions on convicted felons after they are released from prison. What are these restrictions?
Losing the right to:–vote
–serve on a jury
–be a witness
–own a firearm
–if applicable lose practice licenses like therapist, doctor, lawyer etc.