Chapter 12 Flashcards
Correctional officer is the term that replaced the old label of…?
guard.
Which is true of the prisoners’ rights era?
It predominated in the 1980s.
Which drastically limited the rights of inmates to file lawsuits?
The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996.
What is the term Sykes gave to the system of debts and favors between inmates and officers?
Reciprocity.
What statements about women in prison is FALSE? (There could be two answers to this question)
Only non-consensual staff-inmate sex is considered unethical, and today, male officers are assigned to all posts inside prisons for women.
What Supreme Court case linked release from prison to inadequate medical care?
Brown v. Plata.
When the 2011 Realignment Act was passed, what capacity were California prisons operating at?
200–300 percent.
What was the “Tucker Telephone?”
An electrical device that tortured the genitals of inmates.
Which Supreme Court decision ruled that the gratuitousness of injuries, and not their severity, was the determining factor in constitutional violations?
Hudson v. McMillian.
In the 1980s, victimization of inmates by correctional officers decreased but was followed by a rise in…?
inmate violence toward officers.
When were the first exclusively women’s prisons built in the United States?
The late 1800s.
What is true regarding coercive sexual contact in prisons?
Coercion is more likely to be present between female officers and female inmates.
Sheriff’s deputies are often assigned to serve as correctional officers in which type of facility?
Prison.
What is not an ethical dilemma often faced by treatment staff in prisons?
Consulting with judges to suggest conditions of offenders’ sentences.
In Washington v. Harper, the U.S. Supreme ruled that…?
the administration of antipsychotic drugs to unwilling inmates is not unconstitutional.
