Ch 12

Question 1

 A facility that holds persons who have been arrested for crimes and are awaiting trial, persons who have been convicted for misdemeanors and are serving a sentence (up to a year), federal offenders, and others
 Run by county sheriff’s department

Answer 1

Jail

Question 2

 Designed for longer confinement
 Majority of convicted felons serve their sentences here
 People convicted of federal crimes are sent to federal prisons
 People who violate state laws go to state prison
 Operated by state or federal governments

Answer 2

Prison

Question 3

Amount spent on Inmates, employment, expenditure per year

Answer 3

o $50 billion spent per year by states on corrections

 3% total state budgets

Question 4

 Nearly half of 216,000 inmates in federal prison are incarcerated for Blank

Answer 4

Drug Offenses

17% of state prisoners

Question 5

 Restriction or elimination of parole eligibility and good-time credits to ensure offenders serve larger portions of their sentence

Answer 5

Truth-in-sentencing laws

Question 6

 Robert Martinson’s belief, published in the 1970s, that correctional treatment programs generally do not rehabilitate offenders or significantly reduce recidivism

Answer 6

“Nothing Works” Philosophy

Question 7

• Although the existing rehabilitation programs have not been very effective to date, evidence indicates that many programs provide positive treatment for selected portions of the offender population

Answer 7

Sanguine Perspective

Question 8

 To protect the citizens from crime by safely and securely handling criminal offenders while providing offenders some opportunities for self-improvement and increasing the chance that they will become productive and law-abiding citizens

Answer 8

Mission of Correctional Agencies

Question 9

which emphasizes the caretaker functions of controlling and observing inmates

Answer 9

A Custodial Organization

Question 10

Emphasizes the rehabilitation of inmates

Answer 10

A treatment organization

Question 11

T or F, o For some individuals, going to jail or prison represents an increased standard of living

Answer 11

True

Question 12

 Inmate security and treatment plan based on one’s security, social, vocational, psychological, and educational needs while incarcerated

Answer 12

Classification of inmates

Question 13

4 levels of Security in prisons

Answer 13

• Supermax (highest)
• Maximum (high)
• Medium (low)
• Minimum (lowest)

Question 14

 Determine level of supervision and types of privileges an inmate will have

Answer 14

Security

Question 15

T or F,o Parole was abolished in the federal prison system in 1987

Answer 15

True

Question 16

 Removed some of the long-standing restrictions on interstate commerce of prisoner-made goods

Answer 16

Justice Assistance Act (1984)