Chapter 12 notes pt. 2 Flashcards
List the 6 general job categories among correctional officers.
- block officers
- work detail supervisors
- industrial shop and school officers
- yard officers
- tower guards
- administrative building assignments
Describe the job of Block Officers.
- supervise cell blocks
- generally responsible for the well being of inmates
- somewhat like a camp counselor
Describe the job of Work Detail Supervisors.
They oversee small groups of inmates as they perform their tasks
Describe the job of Industrial Shop and School Officers.
- perform maintenance and security functions in workshop and educational programs
- primarily responsible for making sure that inmates are on time and don’t care cause disturbances
Describe the job of Yard Officers.
work the prison yard
Describe the job of Tower Guards.
- spend entire shifts in towers
2. only communicate with cellphones and/or walkie-talkies
Describe the job of Administrative Building Assignments.
- transfers paperwork
- security at prison gates
- act as liasons for civilians
- oversee visitation procedures
For a minor violation, the inmate may be “let off easy” with a _______ _______.
verbal warning
For a serious infractions will result in a “______”, or a report forwarded to the institution’s _________ __________.
ticket
disciplinary committee
the isolation of an inmate in a seperate cell, either as punishment or to remove the inmate from the general prison population for security reasons
solitary confinement
prisons officials use ________ __________ as a form of preventititve detention for inmates.
solitary confinement
prisons officials use solitary confinement as a form of ________ __________ for inmates.
preventitive detention
What did the Supreme Court rule after the Hudson vs. McMillan case?
Minor injuries suffered by a convict at the hands of a correctional officer following an argument did violate the inmate’s rights, because there was no security concern at the time of the incident.
What did the Supreme Court rule after the Whitley vs. Allers case?
The use of force by prison officials violates an inmate’s 8th Amendment protections only if the force amounts to “the unecessary and wanton infliction of pain”
true or false: female correctional officers have proved just as effective as their male counterparts in maintaining discipline in men’s prisons.
true
the general attitude of the law toward inmates is summed up by the ___ _________ to the U.S. Constitution
13th Amendment
the unwritten judicial policy that favors noninterference by the courts in the administration of prisons and jails
“hands-off” doctrine
the standard for violation of an inmate’s 8th Amendment rights, requiring that prison officials be aware of harmful conditions in a correctional institution and fail to take steps remedy those conditions
“deliberate indifference”
Describe the hands-off doctrine of prisoner law and indicate two standards used to determine if prisoners’ rights have been violated.
The hands-off doctrine assumes that the care of prisoners should be left to prison officials and that it is not the place of judges to intervene. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court has created two standards to be used by the courts in determining whether a prisoner’s 8th Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punsihment have been violated.
Under the “deliberate indifference” standard, prisoners must show that prison officials were aware of harmful conditions at the facility but failed to remedy them.
Under the “identifiable human needs” standard, prisoners must show that they were denied a basic need such as food, warmth, or exercise.
In its Wilson vs. Seiter decision, the Supreme Court created the “_________ ______ _____”.
identifiable human needs
the basic human necessities that correctional facilities are required by the Constitution to provide to inmates
“identifiable human needs”
the 1st Amendment reads, in part, that the federal government “shall make no law respecting an establishment of _______, or ___________ the free exercise thereof; or abriding the freedom of _______.”
religion
prohibiting
speech
When wil judges limit some of the protections, from the 1st amendment?
when an obvious security interest is at stake
Correctional officers known as ________ _________ are responsible for the daily well-being of the inmates in their cells.
block officers
Perhaps the most stressful and important aspect of a correctional officer’s job is enforcing ________ among the inmates.
discipline
To do so, the officers may use force whan a __________ security interest is being served.
legitimate
Courts will not, however, accept any force that is “_________ and sadistic”.
malicious
To prove that prison officials violated the _____ Amendment’s prohibtions against cruel and unusual punishment, the inmate must first show that the officials acted with “__________ indifference” in taking or not taking an action.
8th
deliberate
female inmates are typically ____ income and __________, and have a history of ____________.
low
undereducated
unemployment
like male inmates, female prisoners are disproportionately _________-_________, although the percentage of white female inmates has increased over the past two decades.
African-American
like male inmates, female prisoners are disproportionately African-American, although the percentage of _____ female inmates has increased over the past two decades.
white
female offenders are mostly incarcerated for nonviolent _____ or _________ crime
drug
property
the single factor that most distinguishes female prisoners from their male counter-parts is a histoy of ________ or ________ abuse
physical
sexually
an estimated ___ out of 10 female prisoners have at least one minor child
7
which six states offer facilities where inmates and their infant children can live together and for how long?
California, Indiana, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, and Washington
Once the child is 18 months
male prison society operates primarily on the basis of ______
power
women prisoners prefer to re-create their outside identities by forming social networks that resemble the __________ _______ structure
traditional family
The majority of female inmates are members of ________ groups who have been arrested for nonviolent _________ or propety crimes.
minority
drug
On admission to a correctional facility, women report much higher levels of physical and sexual ________ than their male counterparts, and female inmates often suffer from depression because they are separated from their ________.
abuse
children
