Chapter 10-textbook

Question 1

Imprisonment costs- average per inmate

Answer 1

$120,571 ($330 per day)

Question 2

Dynamic needs (factors that can be changed by the offender)

Answer 2

-Employment and education
-Family and marital
-associates
-substance abuse
-community functioning
-personal/emotional
-attitude

Question 3

Average daily inmate cost (female vs. male)

Answer 3

Female: $585
Male: $315

Question 4

relationship between assaults and inmates in solitary confinement

Answer 4

Inmates in solitary decreases, assaults increase.

Question 5

US prison murder rate vs. Canadian prison murder rate

Answer 5

Canadian prison murder rate is higher than the US why? 1.Proportion of violent offenders is much higher, 2.Higher prison-gang population

Question 6

Myth or Reality-parole is “soft” on prisoners

Answer 6

99% of day parole and 97% of full parole placement were completed WITHOUT any further crimes

Question 7

Long-term supervision orders (LTSOs)

Answer 7

Orders that can be imposed by a judge to increase the period of an offender’s community supervision past the end of their formal sentence

Question 8

Alexander Maconochie

Answer 8

promoted the idea of ticket of leave (a release of prisoners who demonstrated a positive change in rehabilitation). he was a prisoner of war and used his insight about prison conditions to motivate convicts

Question 9

Cascading

Answer 9

Prisoners movement to lower levels of supervision

Question 10

Statutory release

Answer 10

A form of supervised release that is automatically granted after federal prisoners with determinate sentences of 3 years or longer who have served 2/3 of their sentence (THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO DANGEROUS OFFENDERS)

Question 11

Timeline for conditional release: prisoner serving a 6 year federal sentence

Answer 11

-Start of sentence: Eligible to apply for escorted absence.
-1/6 of sentence (12 months): Eligible to apply for unescorted temporary absence.
-6 months before 1/3 of sentence (18 months): Eligible for day parole
-1/3 of sentence (24 months): eligible for full parole
-2/3 of sentence (Z48 months): Statutory release (mandatory release) for most offences (does not include homicide offenders)
-End of sentence (72 months): Warrant expiry date

Question 12

Success rate of federal prisoner release

Answer 12

Day Parole: 93%
Full parole: 90%
Statutory release: 67%