CJUS 205 Test 3

CJUS 205 Test 3 What are the preventative actions that prison officials take to reduce inmate unrest? - ANSWER 1. Importance of managerial visibility and approachability 2. Performing security audits 3. Consistency enforcing all rules and regulations 4. Maintaining effective communication between staff and inmates 5. Providing appropriate programs and services 6. Implementing effective management systems 7. Developing sensitivity to changes in inmate actions or the institution atmosphere 8. Using risk assessment programs to identify possible trouble spots and correcting them as soon as possible What is meant by staff diversity? (pg. 485) - ANSWER The representation of a wide variety (in gender, race, and ethnicity) of people working for a correctional agency. What is a furlough in prison? - ANSWER A program in which prison inmates are allowed to leave the prison early to reside in a halfway house and prepare for reentry to the community. Trend in U.S. prison population-year 2000 to 2010. (pg. 470) - ANSWER The Jail population increased, with an average annual growth of 2.4 percent, but declined in 2010. What are Integrity Interviews? (pg. 304) - ANSWER Interviews of candidates for correctional employment used to determine if candidates have issues or conditions that could put them in a compromising situation or make them more likely to accept a bribe to show favored treatment to an inmate. What does the word "Prisonization" mean? - ANSWER The process whereby inmates take on the folk-ways, mores, customs, and general culture of the penitentiary. Biggest budget buster for correctional agencies. - ANSWER Inmate population growth or the downturn in the economy. Violence in women's prison compared to men's prison. - ANSWER - Less concern for personal safety in women's prisons. Potential abuse by staff is more of an issue in women's prisons. - Men have gangs. Male inmates live in an environment with the constant threat and potential for violence. Use of Adult Internal Management System in prison. (pg. 315) - ANSWER Designed to identify males inmates based on their life history and observed behavior while incarcerated and separate them into homogeneous living groups as an effective management too to reduce tension, violence, and disruptive behavior. Explain inmate movement procedures with a prison. - ANSWER 1. Controlled movement- maintain accountability for inmates as they move throughout the prison. 2. Call out- a schedule of all appointments and required moves for a day, including the name and expected times of the moves. 3. Pass system- an inmate is issued by the work or program supervisor to go to a scheduled appointment. What is considered as Recidivism? - ANSWER The state of relapse that occurs when offender complete their criminal punishment and then continue to commit more crimes. How do females adjust to imprisonment? - ANSWER By forming close relationships to other inmates, seeking relationships to provide a support structure. Do all prisons have rule against sexual behavior between inmates? - ANSWER Yes Largest professional organization for corrections in U.S. - ANSWER State Facilities Measures used to control Gangs. (pg. 340) - ANSWER Transferring gang members to maximum security prisons, limiting inmates' access to money, placing the most violence-prone gang members in special facilities, developing gang intelligence, recruiting informers, and observing inmates' daily routine activities to identify patterns of activities and associations of gang members. What are pseudofamilies in the prison systems? - ANSWER Family organizations formed by female inmates who have roles of parents and children. What is the use of a Security Housing Unit? - ANSWER A temporary housing assignment for inmates who present a danger to the security of the prison, need protection from other inmates, or are being punished for violating prison rules. Prison/jails-do correctional officers have same role? - ANSWER Basically the same Number of states that allow conjugal visits. (text book number) - ANSWER 6 Most likely work places for correctional officer. - ANSWER Living units, work detail supervisors, industrial shop and school officers, yard officers, administration building assignments, perimeter security, and relief officers. What is the Inmate code? - ANSWER The expected rules and behaviors represented by the model prisoner and reflecting the values and norms of prison society Organizational culture in prison, Uses? Functions? Etc. - ANSWER The values, beliefs, and behaviors that form the way of life within that organization. Prison system with largest number of inmates. - ANSWER Federal Bureau of Prisons (FOP) Who was Elizabeth Fry? - ANSWER A Quaker who formed the Ladies Society for Promoting and Reformation of Female Prisoners in 1816; she tried to convince officials that women prisoners should be separated from male prisoner and that female guards should be hired to super