corrections 2 Flashcards
(50 cards)
Emphasizes security, discipline, and order (popular)
Custodial Model
Emphasizes the provision of treatment programs designed to reform the offender.
Rehabilitation Model
Emphasizes maintenance of the offender’s ties to family and the community as a method of reform, in recognition of the fact that the offender will be returning to the community.
Reintegration Model
Responsible for the safekeeping, care, protection, instruction, and discipline of all persons charged or convicted of offenses against the United States.
Federal Bureau of Prisons
What branch of government administers prisons
Executive branch
Who administers a prison facility
Warden, reports directly to the commissioner
Prison is constructed in the form of a wheel, with “spokes” radiating from a central control center.
Radial Design
Architecture plan calling for a long central corridor crossed at regular intervals by structures containing the prisoners’ functional areas
Telephone-Pole Design
Architecture plan in which the functional units of a prison are housed in separate buildings constructed on four sides of an open square.
Courtyard style
Architecture design in which the functional units of a prison are individually housed in a complex of buildings surrounded by an outdoor fence
Campus style
4 security levels
minimum, medium, maximum, and super max
Used to house the most disruptive, violent, and incorrigible offenders.
Super max
Designed to minimize the possibility of escapes and violence; to that end, it imposes strict limitations on freedom of inmates and visitors
Maximum
- Designed to prevent escapes and violence, but in which restrictions on inmates and visitors are less ridged than in max.
Medium
Designed to permit inmates and visitors as much freedom as is consistent with the concept of incarceration, and focuses the most on rehabilitation.
Minimum
Reasons incarceration rates are growing
- Increased arrests and more likely incarceration
- Tougher sentencing
- Prison Construction
- The war on drugs
- State and local politics
Size of prisons populations is not driven by (Blank) but driven by (blank
Amount of crime, public policy
Doing nothing to relieve crowding in prisons, under the assumptions that the problem is temporary and will disappear in time.
Null Strategy
Building new facilities to meet the demand for prison space.
Construction Strategy
• Prisons are literally physically, socially, and culturally distinct worlds from regular society.
Culture in Prison
Total institution is a setting isolation people from rest of society an unnecessarily manipulating them through actions of the staff.
Goffman
2 theories on how inmate culture becomes part of prison life
Culture is indigenous -culture formed in prison. and culture is imported-culture brought in from outside
what Clemmer said about indigenous culture
Results of the environments in which prisoners find themselves.
what Sykes said about indigenous culture
Results in response to the deprivation and loss of liberty.