CH 7 Flashcards
Which recent trend in sentencing has helped reduce correctional populations?
Legalizing marijuana has helped reduce correctional populations
Reduced sentences for ______ have helped reduce correctional populations.
Crack Cocaine
The cost of prisons has made the United States reconsider how we use them. True or False
True – although it is a more complex answer
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the Western world. True or False
True - The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the Western world. In 2018, the rate was 657 per 100,000 U.S. residents
In which type of prison are inmates confined to a cell for 23 hours per day?
Supermax - Approximately 44 states have this type of facility. Refer to the section on Supermax Prisons.
Which type of facility encourages inmates to work in the community?
Minimum
It costs approximately $30,000 per year to incarcerate the average male inmate. True or False
True – depends, though, on how costs are calculated It costs about $60,000 per year to house an inmate in a supermax. This is much more expensive than other facilities due to the heightened security.
Which correctional goal does imprisoning someone achieve
Incapacitation
______ refers to how inmates lose the roles they had in the outside world once they enter prison.
Mortification refers to how inmates lose the roles they had in the outside world once they enter prison.
The “pains of imprisonment” refers to how most inmates get beaten up within 1 week of arriving at the prison. True or False
False - The pains of imprisonment refers to the loss of various things inmates had access to in the free world, including liberty, goods and services, heterosexual relationships, autonomy, and security.
Which type of offender is usually housed in minimum-security facilities?
Those closet to release
______ is a subset of the broader collection of community values that has its own norms, beliefs, and language that exists because inmates are isolated from the larger society for an extended period of time.
Prison subculture is a subset of the larger culture with its own norms, beliefs, and language. It exists because inmates are isolated from the larger culture for an extended period of time.
Research on prison subcultures focuses on ______.
Medium – maximum security prisons
Prison gangs are structured by ______.
Race/Ethnicity
The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) identifies 12 major prison gangs in the United States. True or False
False - The FDOC identifies six major prison gangs in the United States.: Neta, Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerrilla Family, Mexican Mafia, La Nuestra Familia, and Texas Syndicate.
Over half of state prisoners are incarcerated for ______ crimes. True or False
True - Approximately 56% of state prisoners committed a violent offense
Why was there a riot at the New Mexico State Penitentiary in 1980?
The riot at the New Mexico State Penitentiary happened because the inmates demanded better conditions. The conditions were deplorable and overcrowded
Older inmates comprise about 10% of the prison population. True or False
true - From 2003 to 2013, the older inmate population in prisons rose by 400%.
What was an unintended consequence of deinstitutionalizing people with mental illness?
An unintended consequence of deinstitutionalizing people who are mentally ill is that many of them ended up in jail or prison. There are often limited services in the community to help people who are mentally ill.
About a quarter of the prison population is LGBTQ+. True or False
False
-gen pop 3.6% of men and 3.4% of women identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual
-1/20 identify as gay
-1/3 identify as les or bi
-LGBTQ youth are extremely overrepresented in the juvenile justice system. Researchers estimate that 20% of youth in the juvenile justice system are lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning, gender nonconforming, or transgender
There is more acceptance of LGBTQ+ inmates in female prisons. True or False
True
Which part of the federal government oversees immigration prisons and jails
The Department of Homeland Security
People in immigration prisons have the same due process rights as those incarcerated in state or federal prisons. True or False
False - People in immigration prisons do not have the same due process rights as those incarcerated in U.S. state or federal prisons
