CCJS 342 Exam 2 well answered graded
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Do male or female prisoners tend to have more serious health problems? - correct answer
✔✔Women prisoners usually have more serious health problems than men
What changes have we seen in prison in the last 40 years? - correct answer ✔✔- Increases in
the number of Hispanic and African American inmates
- More inmates coming from urban areas
- Correctional officers' memberships in public employee unions
- Mass incarceration and efforts to de-incarcerate
What are the three goals/models of incarceration that have predominated since the early
1940s? - correct answer ✔✔1. Custodial model
2. Rehabilitation Model
3. Reintegration Model
custodial model - correct answer ✔✔- Security, discipline, and order
- Assume that they are being incarcerated for retribution, deterrence, or incapacitation
- Strict discipline, controlling behavior of inmates and regulations on behavior of prisoners and
visitors
- Custodial prisons will have some aspects of the other models
Rehabilitation Model - correct answer ✔✔- Provision of treatment programs
- In the 50s
- Need the security to facilitate the rehabilitative efforts
,- Consequence: employees that have a higher status is enjoyed by the specialty doctors,
therapists for example, than regular employees
- Fewer prisons are operating under this after 1970s
Reintegration Model - correct answer ✔✔- Maintenance of offenders' ties to family and
community
- Way to reform is through the maintenance of those ties
- Prisons in this model recognize that these inmates are going to go back into the community
- Inmates are going to gradually receive for benefits and freedoms throughout their
incarceration
Example: halfway house, work release
What goal/model of incarceration do most contemporary prisons follow? - correct answer
✔✔Custodial Model
What geographic area of the U.S. has the largest percentage of state prisons? - correct answer
✔✔- Largest percentage of state prisons are in the South
- Typically in rural areas
How many state and federal prisons are there - correct answer ✔✔State: 1,719
Federal: 109
Why are prisons typically found in rural areas? - correct answer ✔✔- Easier to contain inmates
- Lower property values
- Less opposition to housing prisoners than in cities
What agency administers federal prisons? - correct answer ✔✔Federal Bureau of Prisons
, Are federal prisoners generally serving long (5+ years) or short (<5 years) sentences? - correct
answer ✔✔5+
What category of offense are state prison inmates most likely to be incarcerated for? - correct
answer ✔✔Violent offense
What are the 5 types of prison facility designs? - correct answer ✔✔1. Radial
2. Telephone Pole
3. Courtyard
4. Campus
5. Cluster
Radial Prison - correct answer ✔✔Central control center with "spokes"
Telephone Pole Prison - correct answer ✔✔Long central corridor with "wings"
Courtyard Prison - correct answer ✔✔Separate buildings around central courtyard
Campus Prison - correct answer ✔✔Individual buildings scattered around facility
Cluster Prison - correct answer ✔✔Individual buildings that are interconnected
What type(s) of design is typical for maximum security prisons? - correct answer ✔✔Telephone
pole
Maximum-Security Prisons - correct answer ✔✔- Designed to prevent escapes and deter inmate
violence
A+ updated
Do male or female prisoners tend to have more serious health problems? - correct answer
✔✔Women prisoners usually have more serious health problems than men
What changes have we seen in prison in the last 40 years? - correct answer ✔✔- Increases in
the number of Hispanic and African American inmates
- More inmates coming from urban areas
- Correctional officers' memberships in public employee unions
- Mass incarceration and efforts to de-incarcerate
What are the three goals/models of incarceration that have predominated since the early
1940s? - correct answer ✔✔1. Custodial model
2. Rehabilitation Model
3. Reintegration Model
custodial model - correct answer ✔✔- Security, discipline, and order
- Assume that they are being incarcerated for retribution, deterrence, or incapacitation
- Strict discipline, controlling behavior of inmates and regulations on behavior of prisoners and
visitors
- Custodial prisons will have some aspects of the other models
Rehabilitation Model - correct answer ✔✔- Provision of treatment programs
- In the 50s
- Need the security to facilitate the rehabilitative efforts
,- Consequence: employees that have a higher status is enjoyed by the specialty doctors,
therapists for example, than regular employees
- Fewer prisons are operating under this after 1970s
Reintegration Model - correct answer ✔✔- Maintenance of offenders' ties to family and
community
- Way to reform is through the maintenance of those ties
- Prisons in this model recognize that these inmates are going to go back into the community
- Inmates are going to gradually receive for benefits and freedoms throughout their
incarceration
Example: halfway house, work release
What goal/model of incarceration do most contemporary prisons follow? - correct answer
✔✔Custodial Model
What geographic area of the U.S. has the largest percentage of state prisons? - correct answer
✔✔- Largest percentage of state prisons are in the South
- Typically in rural areas
How many state and federal prisons are there - correct answer ✔✔State: 1,719
Federal: 109
Why are prisons typically found in rural areas? - correct answer ✔✔- Easier to contain inmates
- Lower property values
- Less opposition to housing prisoners than in cities
What agency administers federal prisons? - correct answer ✔✔Federal Bureau of Prisons
, Are federal prisoners generally serving long (5+ years) or short (<5 years) sentences? - correct
answer ✔✔5+
What category of offense are state prison inmates most likely to be incarcerated for? - correct
answer ✔✔Violent offense
What are the 5 types of prison facility designs? - correct answer ✔✔1. Radial
2. Telephone Pole
3. Courtyard
4. Campus
5. Cluster
Radial Prison - correct answer ✔✔Central control center with "spokes"
Telephone Pole Prison - correct answer ✔✔Long central corridor with "wings"
Courtyard Prison - correct answer ✔✔Separate buildings around central courtyard
Campus Prison - correct answer ✔✔Individual buildings scattered around facility
Cluster Prison - correct answer ✔✔Individual buildings that are interconnected
What type(s) of design is typical for maximum security prisons? - correct answer ✔✔Telephone
pole
Maximum-Security Prisons - correct answer ✔✔- Designed to prevent escapes and deter inmate
violence
