Chapter 11 Flashcards
A state or federal confinement facility that has custodial authority over adults sentenced to confinement.
Prison
Imprisonment is seen as a fully deserved consequence of criminal behavior.
Imprisonment
The size of the correctional population that an institution can effectively hold.
Prison Capacity
The number of inmates a prison can handle, according to experts.
Rated Capacity
The number of inmates a prison can effectively accommodate, based on management considerations.
Operational Capacity
The number of people a prison was intended to hold when it was built or modified.
Design Capacity
Found in states that rely on predetermined, or fixed, sentences.
Collective Incapacitation
Generally housed in dorm-like settings, free to walk the yard and visit most of the prison facility.
Minimum Security
Inmates generally permitted more freedom to associate with one another, less intense supervision.
Medium Security
High fences, thick walls, secure cells, gun towers, armed prison guards, death-row inmates are all maximum-security prisoners.
Maximum Security
A system used by prison administrators to assign inmates to custody levels based on offense history, assessed dangerousness, and other factors.
Classification System
Acronym for administrative maximum
ADMAX
