Specialized populations (3)

Question 1

Convict boss

Answer 1

a CO with a keen understanding of convict logic and socialization

Question 2

Prison fish

Answer 2

new guy

Question 3

turned out

Answer 3

sexual assault

Question 4

security threat group (STG)

Answer 4

a high-functioning, organized gang that uses an illegal industry to fund their objectives

Question 5

validating

Answer 5

Identifying individuals with gangs via tattoos, colors, etc.

Question 6

offender with special needs

Answer 6

a specialized offender who has some notable physical, mental, and/or emotional challenge

Question 7

Mainstreaming

Answer 7

integration of an inmate with a disability into gen pop

Question 8

Universal design

Answer 8

prison construction design that complies with ADA requirements and that accommodates all inmate needs in a universal fashion

Question 9

Deinstitutionalization

Answer 9

the legislative movement in the 1970s to release patients from mental asylums that ultimately led to an increase of mentally ill offenders housed in jails and state prisons

Question 10

DSM-5

Answer 10

a reference manual that sets forth the guidelines in applying a diagnosis of a mental disorder

Question 11

_____ of the free world population has a serious mental illness

Answer 11

5%

Question 12

____ of people in jail have a serious mental illness

Answer 12

17%

Question 13

___ of all people in mental hospitals are transferred from prisons

Answer 13

half

Question 14

Malingering

Answer 14

the intentional production of false or grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms motivated by external incentives

Question 15

Incentives for malingering

Answer 15

Compensation, avoidance, separation, relocation, entitlement, attention, and amusement

Question 16

Should security staff attempt to discern between malingerers and those with a true mental illness?

Answer 16

No. Not all self-harm is a suicide risk, may be a cry for help

Question 17

Ruiz v Estelle

Answer 17

established four standards of mental health care

Question 18

what are the four standards of mental health care

Answer 18

• Facilities must screen for mental health issues
• Inmates must have access to mental health treatment while in segregation/SHU
• Facilities must monitor delivery and usage of psychotropic medication
• Facilities must have suicide prevention program

Question 19

Is there an increase or decrease in number of inmates with HIV?

Answer 19

decrease

Question 20

___ of institutions screen for HIV

Answer 20

25%

Question 21

____ have higher rates of HIV in prison, ___ have higher rates in free world

Answer 21

Women; men