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Question 1

What is the Pennsylvania model for prisons?

Answer 1

A system in which prisoners are completely isolated from each other eating, working, and sleeping in separate cells

Question 2

What is the Auburn model for prisons?

Answer 2

A system where prisoners work and ate together during the day and were housed in individual cells at night

Question 3

Who operates the federal corrections?

Answer 3

Correctional service Canada

Question 4

Who gets sent to federal corrections?

Answer 4

Offenders serving a sentence of two years to more

Question 5

What 5 regions are federal corrections located in?

Answer 5

Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairie, Pacific

Question 6

What are the 3 types of correctional institutions?

Answer 6

Minimum, medium, and maximum security

Question 7

What is minimum security?

Answer 7

No perimeter fencing and unrestricted inmate movement except at night time

Question 8

What is medium security?

Answer 8

High-security perimeter fencing with some restrictions on inmate movement

Question 9

What is maximum security?

Answer 9

High-security perimeter fencing, highly controlled environment with inmate movement strictly monitored and controlled

Question 10

What are the two types of correctional facility security?

Answer 10

Static and dynamic security

Question 11

What is Static security?

Answer 11

Fixed security apparatuses in correctional institutions with perimeter fencing, video surveillance, alrams, control rooms, and fixed security post

Question 12

What is dynamic security?

Answer 12

Ongoing interaction, beyond observation, working and speaking with inmates, making suggestions, providing information, and being proactive

Question 13

What is rule of law?

Answer 13

The requirement that the government, as well
as individuals, be subjected to and abide by the law

Question 14

What is duty to act fairly?

Answer 14

The obligation of correctional authorities to ensure that offenders are treated fairly by corrections personnel

Question 15

What is prison?

Answer 15

Facilities with a highly structured environment in which all movements of the inmates or
patients are controlled 24 hours a day by staff

Question 16

What is continuum of correctional institutions?

Answer 16

The differences in institutional environments among correctional institutions located at either end of the security spectrum—maximum to minimum

Question 17

What is the split personality of corrections?

Answer 17

When prisons are asked to pursue confinement and control but also reform and rehabilitation

Question 18

What is segregation/ solitary confinement?

Answer 18

A correctional management strategy where inmates are locked in a cell for 23 hours a day

Question 19

What are the two types of segregation?

Answer 19

Disciplinary and administrative segregation

Question 20

What is disciplinary segregation for?

Answer 20

When an inmate violates an institutional rule

Question 21

What is administrative segregation?

Answer 21

When an inmate attempts to act in a way that is deemed to threaten the prison population

Question 22

What is the custodial agenda of correctional officers?

Answer 22

Centers on control and the enforcement of regulations

Question 23

What is the correctional agenda?

Answer 23

Involves correctional officers functioning as change agents by assisting inmates

Question 24

What is the correctional officer subculture?

Answer 24

A code of behavior designed to maintain occupational solidarity

Question 25

What are correctional officers' issues?

Answer 25

Relationship with inmates (subtle, non-verbal cues to help read them), abuse of authority (based on inmate's offense/ history), relationship with treatment staff (viewed with distrust)

Question 26

What is status degrading ceremony?

Answer 26

The processing of inmates into a correctional institution where the offender is psychologically and materially stripped of possessions that identify him or her as a member of the “free society”

Question 27

What is pains of imprisonment?

Answer 27

The deprivations experienced by inmates confined in correctional institutions, including the loss of autonomy, privacy, security, and freedom of movement and association

Question 28

What is inmate subculture?

Answer 28

The patterns of interaction and the relationships that exist among inmates confined in correctional institutions

Question 29

What is prisonization?

Answer 29

The process by which inmates become socialized into the norms, values, and culture of the prison

Question 30

what are state-raised offenders?

Answer 30

Inmates who have spent the majority of their adult lives confined in correctional institutions and, as a consequence, may have neither the skills nor the ability to function in the outside, free community

Question 31

What is institutionalized?

Answer 31

Inmates who have become prisoned to such a degree that they are unable to function in the outside, free community

Question 32

What are inmate social roles?

Answer 32

Roles that inmates assume based on their friendship networks, sentence length, and other factors related to their criminal history and activities in the institution

Question 33

What is inmate code?

Answer 33

A set of behavioral rules that govern interactions among inmates and with institutional staff

Question 34

What is classification?

Answer 34

Categorizing inmates through the use of various assessment instruments to determine the security level and program placement

Question 35

What are the two risk factors?

Answer 35

Static and dynamic risk factors

Question 36

What are static risk factors?

Answer 36

Attributes that predict recidivism eg criminal history

Question 37

What are dynamic risk factors?

Answer 37

Attributes that can be altered through intervention eg addictions

Question 38

What is case management?

Answer 38

The process by which the needs and abilities of offenders are matched with correctional programs and services

Question 39

What is a correctional plan?

Answer 39

Determines the offender’s initial institution placement, specific training or work opportunities, and preparation for release

Question 40

What are institutional treatment programs?

Answer 40

Target criminogenic and anti-social behaviors through substance abuse, relapse prevention, education, and anger management interventions

Question 41

What is throughcare?

Answer 41

The notion that there should be continuity between institutional treatment and programs and community-based services for offenders