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Corporal Punishment

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punishments involving direct harm to the human body

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William Penn

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Developed the first American prison system

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William Penn and the Quakers

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very concerned with finding a better way to deal with torture; ordered houses of corrections to be built; imprisonment at hard labor and moderate flogging with restitution

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Auburn System

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sometimes called tier system; based on fear of punishment and silent confinement; congregate work conditions; separate and silent conditions at night

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Reformatory Movement

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late 1800s; rehab was best purpose; Zebulon Brockway was the warden of Elmira Reformatory in New York (first to employ this approach); advocate indeterminate sentences

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Rehabilitation Model

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1950s-1960s; based on medical model; emphasized need to restore an offender to a constructive place in society through some form of vocational or educational training or therapy

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Federal Prison System

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Federal Bureau of Prisons operates this system; maintain institutions at 6 security levels; population contains more inmates convicted of white collar crime than state institution; drug offenders make up about 60% of the incarcerated population; less than 7% have committed violent crimes

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Jail characteristics

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  1. a branch of local government-county
  2. pre trial detention
  3. detain offenders awaiting sentencing
  4. confine misdemeanants
  5. hold probation and parole violators
  6. Relieve prison overcrowding through contracts with the state
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Overcrowding in prisons and jails

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  1. 37 states operating under court orders
  2. state prisons are over 100% capacity
  3. some responses: double/triple bunking, tents and military bases, river barges, use of local jails
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Characteristics of prison inmates

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95% male; 17% hispanic, 46% black, 35% white; age 18-24 21%, 25-34 46%,35-44 23%, 45-54 7% 55 and older 3%; 8th grade or less 19%, some high school 46%, high school graduate 22%, some college or more 12%; drug offenses 21.3%, public order offenses 6.9%, violent offenses 46.6%, property offenses 24.8%

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minimum security

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white collar criminals; no armed guards, wall or even perimeter fences, low risk inmates

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Medium security

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less escape prone, series of fences and enclosures with fewer guard towers, movements less controlled and surveillance less vigilant

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Maximum security

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walled fortresses of concrete and steel that house the most serious, aggressive offenders

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Supermax security

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highly restrictive, high-custody housing unit within a secure institution that isolates inmates from the general prison population and from each other

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Exchange Relationships

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purported to help correctional officers obtain inmate cooperation where officers will tolerate minor rule infractions in exchange for compliance for major aspects of the custodial regime

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Classification

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process through which the educational, vocational, treatment and custodial needs of the offender are determined

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Women in Prison

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much less violent than men; vocational focus more on women’s duties: cooking, cleaning, etc.; allowed to visit their children

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Limits of total power

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Hierarchy that limits powers: commissioner, warden, deputy warden

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Vocational Programs

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provide inmates with skills and employment for employment after release; often outdated and irrelevant to acquiring meaningful work outside of prison

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Rehabilitative Programs

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attempt to remove alleged defects in social and psychological development

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Total institution

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An environment that regulates every aspect of the individuals it encompasses and erects barriers to social interchange from the outside world. Large groups of people live together day and night, in a fixed area and under a tightly scheduled sequence of activities imposed by a central authority

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Prisonization

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internalization of the prisons norms and values

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Contraband

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an item that is not issued or authorized in a prison

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“chivalry” factor

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men feel bad about putting women in jail so not many women are in jail

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Social Structure of women’s prisons

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Cottage system: more freedom with more security checks; squares: first time prisoners; professionals: view prison as getting in the way of their career shoplifters; repeat offenders: prostitutes, working since their teen years; custodial staff: values similar to those in mens prisons

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Causes and characteristics of violence in prison

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  1. inmates are violence prone
  2. Prisons convert people to violence (survival mentality)
  3. Prison mismanagement
  4. Overcrowding
  5. Breaking inmate code
  6. violence
  7. death
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Balancing Test

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a test in which opposing rights, interests, or policies are assigned a degree or level of importance and the ruling of the court is determined by which is considered greater

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Writ of Habeas Corpus

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latin for “you should have the body”; A writ issued by a court commanding the person who holds another in captivity to produce the prisoner in court so that the legality of the prisoners confinement can be adjudicated.

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Jailhouse Lawyers

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inmates who assist other inmates in the preparation of legal documents

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Procunier v. Martinez

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prison-mail censorship is constitutional only when the practice must promote substantial government interests such as security, order, or rehab; and the restrictions must not be greater than necessary to satisfy the particular government interest involved

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Ruffin v. Commonwealth

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inmates are ‘slaves of the state’ therefore have no legal rights (can’t vote, sit on jury, sign contracts, marriage, run for house, etc.)

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Johnson v. Avery

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inmates must be given access to legal access, authorized “jailhouse lawyers” if prisons weren’t providing legal assistance

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Sandin v. Conner

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determined that in order to challenge the conditions of confinement, an inmate must show due deference on the part of a prison official

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Recidivism

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rearrest, reconviction, technical violations; did the offender do “it” again

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Extent of the use of probation

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more therapeutic alternative, for people that are not dangerous or a menace to society. prevent from the ex con label

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John Augustus

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Boston shoemaker; “father of probation”; first probation officer; saved a man from corrections by aiding him in becoming a sober man

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Conditions of Probation

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probationer must live a law-abiding and productive life; special conditions can be added (drug treatment/testing, etc.); conditions try to balance the needs of treatment and rehab v. supervision and enforcement

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Conditions of Parole

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comply with the law, maintain employment or education and support dependents, refrain from use of drugs or alcohol, report to parole officer upon release or periodically after, cooperate with parole officer, notify/get permission to change employment or residence

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Paper clients

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in the triage, considered the least harmful and need the least attention; simple

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Dangerous men

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in the triage, considered the most harmful, high risk offenders

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Educational Program

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getting education, a GED

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Net Widening

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providing alternatives to incarceration or diversion programs to direct offenders away from court

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Furloughs

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an authorized, unescorted absence from a correctional institution for a specified period of time

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Gagnon v. Scarpelli

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before revocation can occur, a 2 stage hearing must take place and due process must be followed in the proceedings

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Mempa v. Rhay

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it was held that a probationer had a constitutional right to counsel at any revocation proceeding

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Morrisey v. Brewer

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the supreme court ruling that a parolee facing revocation is entitled to both a preliminary hearing to determine whether he or she actually violated parole and a final hearing to consider not only the facts in question but also if there was a violation, what to do about it

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Alexander Maconochie

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“father of parole”; Warden of Australian prison; believed prisoner were capable of reformation; prisoners could earn their way from 3 grades by good work and behavior; ticket of leave which provided conditional liberty

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Sir Walter Crofton

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Applied Maconochie’s “ticket of leave”, a conditional release for the remainder of the sentence, and the first use of parole as it is known today, to Irish Prison System; Attached conditions to the leave which could result in one being returned to prison

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Discretionary Release

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release of inmates in which the decision to release is made by a parole board

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Mandatory Release

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a type of release in which inmates serve a determinate sentence and are then released, but with a period of supervision to follow

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Unconditional Release

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a type of release in which inmates serve the full portion of their sentence and have no supervision after release from prison

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Presumptive Parole Date

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a date the inmate can expect to be released on parole, even if it is five or ten years later than the hearing

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