Chapter 4-6 Flashcards
What’s the rationale (primary reason) for intermediate sanctions?
The public is concerned about high rates of reoffending (recidivism)
Intermediate Sanctions emerged because?
probation wasn’t enough, as an alternative to placing offenders on only probation and by adding more sanctions.
Intermediate Sanctions help to do what?
fill the void (gap) between probation and prison.
Intermediate sanctions may include…?
fines, house arrest, electronic monitoring and boot camp.
(T/F): Intermediate Sanctions provide a range of sentencing options by choosing the punishment which best fits the circumstance of the crime and offender
True.
Intermediate sanctions may include fines, defined as what?
A sanction that requires convicted felons to pay a sum of money
(T/F) The “concept” or idea of using jails was first introduced by medieval England for detaining suspects who were awaiting trial
True
(T/F) Jail is a facility which holds convicted felons for more than a year.
False
A facility that is authorized to hold individuals pending trial are typically called what?
Jail
A facility which is used for temporary holding, usually in police stations is what?
Lock-up
A facility used to hold convicted incarcerated persons sentenced to short terms, convicted misdemeanants, or pretrial detainees (primarily on the east coast), is known as what?
Workhouse
(T/F) Jails are typically large facilities, narrowly focused for holding long-term convicted felons
False
What an example of something that IS NOT PART of a jail’s function?
Felons serving time for murder convictions
The process of admitting a person into the facility who has been arrested, or sentenced into the jail is known as what?
Booking
What describes the First Generation of jail designs?
Designed to provide a linear or intermediate surveillance of incarcerated persons. Offenders live in dorms or multi-person rooms. Rooms open to long corridors. Staff tour the corridor, visually observing.
What describes the Second Generation of jail designs?
Designed to provide indirect or remote surveillance. Officers are separated from offenders, located in a secure room. Microphones inside rooms allow communication and staff to hear what’s going on.
What describes the New Generation of jail designs?
Direct supervision with open day rooms, a popular design, emphasizing offender and staff interaction.
What describes the Fourth Generation of jail designs?
Omniview (borrowed from the panopticon design) where there is a centrally placed observation center, 100% surveillance to the stairwells, recreation, open-faced cells.
(T/F) Prisons ARE the most cost-effective method of punishment for offenders
False
(T/F) Prisons are a microcosm (miniature) of our larger society with similar services and interpersonal social systems
True.
(T/F) The Federal Bureau of Prisons offer offenders a variety of programs including drug treatment, high school equivalency, and life skills program
True
There are different types of correctional facilities generally based on the security designation; what are the the correct designations?
Minimum, Medium and Maximum
Prisoners, in some correctional facilities, have been subjected to abuse and violence perpetrated by the correctional officers who supervise them. There was a Supreme Court ruling Madrid v Gomez (1995) which found that abuses, in violation of the 8th Amendment, did occur at Pelican Bay. What are some of those abuses?
Prisoners were left naked in their cells, officers harassed and used racial taunting towards the inmates, and prisoners were restrained (hand-cuffed) and beaten
How do you describe the Telephone-pole design?
This has a long central corridor, serving as the means for offenders to go from one area of the prison to another. Extending from the corridor, our housing uses, school, shops, recreation, dining room.
How do you describe the Radial design?
In the wheel shaped configuration, corridors radiate like spokes from the control center and hub.
How do you describe the Campus design?
Open, allow some freedom of movement. The units are housed in a complex of building within a perimeter fence.
How do you describe the Courtyard design?
A design where the corridors surrounding courtyard. Usually housing, education, industry and dining areas which faces the courtyard.
(T/F) There are also “Supermax Prisons” which are designed to hold the most dangerous inmates, they are “locked-down” 23 hours a day with only one hour of recreation. Meals are served inside the cell.
True
