Test 1 Flashcards
Social control
Control of inmates interactions with the public and everyday life
Ex.) 1. Increase crime
- Better at incarcerating
- Longer sentencing
- Death penalty
4 states with largest prison population
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
Corrections
The programs, services, and facilities for management of individuals who have been convicted of a crime
How does society address violation of laws
- Fines
- Probation
- Prison
- Death penalty
What is prison?
Punishment/ revenge
Torture
Unnecessary punishment
Boiled/ burned people alive, branded, Iron Maiden
Corporal punishment
Hard labor, beating and abuse by prison
Capital punishment
Execution by the state
Outlaw
One who lives outside the means of the law
Bridwell system
Instilled hard work and labor as punishment, prisoners had to pay for facility upkeep, poor people are majority population
Debtor
Someone who doesn’t pay their bills or owes the state money
Hulks
Ships prisoners were sent to Australia on from Europe
Beccaria
Italian thinker, said punishment must fit crime, people commit crimes b/c of free will, prevention of crime more important than punishment, need more humane prisons
John Howard
Father of penitentiary system
Penitentiary act 1779
- Abolished fees while in prison
- Secure and sanitize facilities
- Inspections
- Reform- rehabilitation
Penitentiary
A system where the inmate sits in a cell by themselves and asks God for forgiveness of their crime
1st jail in U.S.
Walnut st jail. Built by quakers and had penitentiary system
Why walnut st opened and closed
Opened because of overcrowding in prisons, closed because people were going insane
Who were originators of solitary confindment
Quakers
4 goals of corrections
Retribution, deterrence, incarceration, rehabilitation
Lex talionis
Eye for and eye
Penn. prison system
- Isolation
- Penitentiary system
- Treated well
- No corporal punishment
- Work Alone
- Costly
Auburn prison system
- Congregate status
- Strict discipline
- Corporal punishment
- Work together
5: self sufficient
Reformatory
Earn your way out, parole, treatment programs, education, criminal behavior, ticket to leave
1st reformatory 1901
Rahway reformatory for boys now called east jersey state prison others are bored town, mtn. View, garden state
Medical model
Psychology becomes used in prisons
Where there always be prison
Yes b/c there will always be crime, growth industry, punishment, violent offenders in prison
Why close Alcatraz
To costly
Sinilarities between Alcatraz and Clinton
Poor supervision of guards, escape methods were same, lack of searches conducted, and undue familiarity
Sentence disparity
Sentence is not the same for everyone of the same crime
P.S.I.
Pre sentence investigation, has criminal history of defendant, sentence records, final charge, fines
What agencies involved in psi
DOC, and state, federal or local police id arrested by them, prosecutor, probation officer, parole, public defender
Procuneir v Martinez
Censorship of mail only if it’s threaten security if prison
Turner v safely
Allowed correspondence between inmates via mail
Giano v Clinton
Semi nude pics of girl not allowed to have in prison
Fulwood v Clemon
Black Muslims must be regocnized
Cruz v Beto
Texas Buddhist recognized
O’lone v shabazz
Native American religion recognized sweat lodge made
Hudson v palmer
Can search inmates cell whenever
Ruiz v Estelle
Conditions of confided the were so bad it was cruel and unusual punishment
Pargo v Elliot
Equal right to women including programs
Ombudsman
A public official with authority to investigate citizens complaints about gov officials
1st amendment
Free speech and religion
4th amendment
Search and seizure
8th amendment
No cruel and unusual punishment
14 th amendment
Have due process rights, right to trial and defend themselves
