Vocab

Question 1

compassionate release

Answer 1

medical parole allow release of people who are terminal (6months or less) to die at home with their families

Question 2

incarcerated people HIV/aids

Answer 2

• higher in women
• 1.5% in male
• 1.9% in women

Question 3

PREA

Answer 3

mandates that transgender people who are incarcerated and gives serious consideration on where the prisoner feels the safest

Question 4

Women in prison

Answer 4

• 7% of the incarcerated prison population are women
• 43 prisons in Florida, 4 are for women
• 65% of incarcerated women are mothers

Question 5

aging prisoner

Answer 5

A prisoner who is of age 50 or over

Question 6

How many prisoners return home?

Answer 6

• 95% of people in prison will return home/community
• 750,000 release per year

Question 7

thinking errors

Answer 7

• Ways that people use to avoid taking responsibility for their own behavior, or ways to make themselves look good by making others look bad.
• Blaming, anger, pride, minimizing

Question 8

Discretionary parole

Answer 8

• Conditional early release from imprisonment at the discretion of a state paroling authority and continued supervision in the community.

Question 9

supervised mandatory release

Answer 9

• When an inmate is automatically released by law to the community when he or she has completed his or her maximum prison sentence less any good time credit the inmate has received.

Question 10

parole board

Answer 10

• Group of citizens, typically appointed by the state governor, who meet periodically to review the files of those prisoners eligible for parole.

Question 11

parole agreement/order

Answer 11

• Document that the parolee signs at the first meeting with the parole officer where he or she agrees to abide by certain conditions while on parole.

Question 12

1 opinion convicted offenders - rights-are-retained position

Answer 12

• argues that prisoners keep all the rights of an ordinary citizen, except those that are expressly or by necessity taken away from them by law.

Question 13

1 opinion convicted offenders- rights-are-lost position

Answer 13

• says that prisoners are wholly without rights except those expressly conferred by law or necessity.

Question 14

Writ of habeas corpus

Answer 14

• appeal conviction and ask court to review evidence because constitutional rights were violated

Question 15

14th amendment

Answer 15

due process clause, Equal protection clause

Question 16

ex post facto law

Answer 16

• A law imposing a greater punishment for a crime than was allowed when the crime was committed.

Question 17

Section 1983 Claim

Answer 17

civil rights have been violated.

Question 18

Fourth amendment

Answer 18

• Search and seizure

Question 19

Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requirement made it….

Answer 19

harder for prisoners to file law suits

Question 20

civil disenfranchisement

Answer 20

• The loss of the right to vote due, for example, to a felony conviction

Question 21

Bifurcated trial

Answer 21

first part guilty/not guilty

Question 22

guided discretion

Answer 22

statutes require juries to administer capital punishment after considering both aggravating and mitigating circumstances.

Question 23

Marshal hypothesis

Answer 23

More people learn about the death penalty public support will decline
furman decision

Question 24

Child Savers 1800s-1990s

Answer 24

first juvenile court in Chicago
Care function- juveniles who were neglected, abandoned
Control function- engaging in delinquent behavior

Question 25

In re Gault

Answer 25

gave juveniles the right to attorney and parents, cross examine witnesses, and refuse to self incriminate

Question 26

In re Winship 1970

Answer 26

• Standard of proof in juvenile cases must be “beyond a reasonable doubt”
• Prior preponderance of the evidence 51%

Question 27

Transfer to adult court

Answer 27

1. Judicial waiver-
2. Direct file
3. Statutory exclusion

Question 28

parens patriae

Answer 28

• State is seen as the guardian of minors and they cannot take cares of themselves

Question 29

status offense

Answer 29

• Misbehavior that is considered wrong only because society does not consider the juvenile old enough for such activity.
• noncriminal

Question 30

judicial waiver

Answer 30

• Juvenile court judge transfers it to criminal court.

Question 31

direct file

Answer 31

Prosecutor decides to try a juvenile as an adult.

Question 32

Missouri Model

Answer 32

• A model for juvenile institutions that emphasizes rehabilitation in small groups, constant therapeutic interventions, and minimal force.

Question 33

Implications

Answer 33

• Money on less than 5 years in incarceration is a waste
• Better policy- prison for 5 years or more
• More probation
• Community based programs

Question 34

Conditional release

Answer 34

release from prison but meet requirements set by parole