Exam 12: The Prison Experience and Prisoner Reentry

These officers perform maintenance and security functions in workshop and educational programs.

Case 12-2 Officer Hernandez has been working for the correctional system for 5 years. As a custodial officer he has performed almost every job inside the prison walls. He is well respected by the inmates and his fellow officers. Officer Hernandez found out that there is an opportunity to be promoted. He studies for the exam and reviews all the policies and duties for the employees at the correctional institution. -One of Sergeant Hernandez's rookie officers has been known to use excessive force. Sergeant Hernandez must evaluate if the level of force used by Officer Williams is a violation of an inmate's Eighth Amendment protections. Which Supreme Court case held that the use of force by prison officials violates an inmate's Eighth Amendment protections only if the force amounts to the "unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain"?

The socialization process through which a new inmate learns the accepted norms and values of the prison population is called:

Prison violence is often an outlet for racial tension.

Relative deprivation is a theory that inmate aggression is the result of the frustration inmates feel at being deprived of freedom, consumer goods, sex, and other staples of life outside the institution.

Who is responsible for the "well­being" of the inmates by making sure that inmates do not harm themselves or other prisoners?

Inmates develop their own language, or:

Case 12-2 Officer Hernandez has been working for the correctional system for 5 years. As a custodial officer he has performed almost every job inside the prison walls. He is well respected by the inmates and his fellow officers. Officer Hernandez found out that there is an opportunity to be promoted. He studies for the exam and reviews all the policies and duties for the employees at the correctional institution. -The warden decides that Sergeant Hernandez will supervise the rookie officers. He will most likely be required to supervise which officers?

Efforts being made to help inmates make the transition from prison to the "outside" are included under the concept of:

Discuss the various ranks of custodial staff at most prisons.

The culture in male prisons is similar to the culture in female prisons.

Explain the difference between active and passive sex offender notification laws.

Expiration release, also known as "maxing out," occurs when an inmate has served the maximum amount of time on the initial sentence, minus reductions for good-time credits.

______oversee small groups of inmates as they perform tasks in the cafeteria, the prison store, the laundry, and other areas.

In the_______ notification model, information on sex offenders is made open and available for public scrutiny.

Corrections budgets are straining under the financial pressures caused by the _____________ needs of aging inmates.

_______is the theory that inmate aggression is caused when freedoms and services that the inmate has come to accept as normal are decreased or eliminated.

When inmates try to prove that their Eighth Amendment rights were violated by a correctional facility, they must meet the standard of:

Organized activities for inmates that are designed to improve their physical and mental health, provide them with skills, or simply keep them busy while incarcerated are_________ .

A community-based form of early release that places inmates in residential centers and allows them to reintegrate with society is a(n)___________________________.