Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
31 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
What was the Pennsylvania System?
|
A philosophy of imprisonment that promoted repentance through solitary confinement and prevented offenders from being corrupted by mixing with other offenders. This system also promoted repentance.
|
|
|
Auburn System
|
A philosophy of imprisonment that emphasized labor and meditation. Offenders worked every day, but they did so in complete silence.
|
|
|
Reformatory movement
|
Late nineteenth-century trend toward use of incarceration to reform through education.
|
|
|
Zebulon Brockway
|
Developed a an approach to incarceration at the Elmira Reformatory in New York State that changed the purpose of incarceration from custody to education.
|
|
|
Maximum security prisons
|
Prisons that usually have a wall behind them. They house dangerous felons.
|
|
|
Medium security prisons
|
These prisons have some facilities outside the main enclosure and are surrounded by two rows of chain-like fence, topped with barbed wire.
|
|
|
Minimum security prisons
|
Usually have fencing but have locking outside doors and electronic surveillance devices around the perimeter of the institution.
|
|
|
Peitentitiaries
|
Maximum security federal correctional institutions
|
|
|
Correctional institutions
|
Medium security federal correctional institutions
|
|
|
Metropolitan correctional centers
|
Federal jail facilities for pretrial detention and for those serving short sentences.
|
|
|
Rhodes v. Chapman
|
Ruled that double celling is not in itself cruel and unusual punishment.
|
|
|
Estelle v. Gamble
|
Ruled that deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners violates the 8th amendment.
|
|
|
Overton v. Buzzetta
|
U.S. Supreme Court held that regulations limiting visitors to prisoners did no violate the eighth amendment because the regulations bear a rational relation to legitimate penological interests.
|
|
|
How long is the average felony prison sentence?
|
5 years
|
|
|
Control model
|
Prison management approach in which strict enforcement of prison rules and few privileges for prisoners.
|
|
|
Responsibility model
|
Prison management approach in which staff guides prisoners decision making rather than making all decisions for them.
|
|
|
Consensual model
|
Prison management approach that maintains order by agreement between inmates and staff on the validity of rules.
|
|
|
__% of inmates in the United States lack a high school education.
|
70
|
|
|
What are the five major issues of prison life?
|
-AIDS
-Violence -prison work -drugs and treatment -prison gangs |
|
|
Rate of confirmed AIDS among prison inmates are __ times higher than the general population.
|
4
|
|
|
Which amendment protects individuals against intrusions by the government in the absence of probable cause linking them to a crime?
|
4th
|
|
|
Wilson v. Seiter
|
The Supreme court ruled that deplorable conditions in prison is not enough to challenge the conditions of confinement using the 8th amendment.
|
|
|
Men out number women in jail by a ratio of ___ to one.
|
14
|
|
|
Nearly ___ percent of inmates perform work in prison, but most task performed by inmates involve maintenance of correctional facilities.
|
70
|
|
|
There are three levels of prisons, they are state, federal and ____.
|
Private
|
|
|
What case dealt with medical needs of prisoners.
|
Estelle v. Gamble
|
|
|
Benjamin Rush
|
Advocated the abolition of capital punishment as well as being an advocate for the construction of humane prisons?
|
|
|
What is the term for a jail in the federal prison system?
|
Metropolitan correction center
|
|
|
Limited parole eligibility has lead to...
|
prison overcrowding
|
|
|
The concept that life in prison should resemble the life outside of prison as much as possible is called...
|
Parallel Universe
|
|
|
A survey of prison wardens identified three major problems which are ...
|
Prison overcrowding, understaffed treatment programs and gang affiliated inmates.
|
