Exam 15: Incarceration and Prison Society

How did the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Plata  impact the constitutional rights of prisoners?

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)enacted by Congress in 2004 establishes a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of rape in prison.

Racial conflict is not a problem in most U.S. prisons.

Which is true concerning the authority of prison officials?

Which is true about prison managers?

The convict world has its own norms and values, often described as the "cone of silence."

Discuss the different subcultures in a  men's and women's prison. How might these differences be explained?

Discuss how the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission has impacted the rights and treatment of inmates.

Warden Smith is in charge of a female prison that houses the women from her state.  She has been working diligently to improve the conditions of the prison for the women.  Warden Smith has increased programs for the women, spending significant amounts of money on improving the educational system behind bars.  She also received a grant that allowed the prison to have an around-the-clock medical staff person to care for the inmates.  Warden Smith has also managed to incorporate programs to increase the mother-child bond. What percentage of Warden Smith's inmates are pregnant when they enter prison or have given birth within the last year?

Contemporary prisoners are more likely to come from urban areas and to have been convicted of drug offenses than prisoners in the past.

Officers who establish _______, or secret, relationships can be manipulated by prisoners into smuggling contraband or committing other illegal acts.

Which Western nation has the most prisoners serving long-term sentences?

In regard to age and gender, a plurality of prisoners are _______  ______.

Which is true concerning prison programs?

Keeping inmates secure is the definition of which of the following?

Retribution would be an aspect of _______ model of incarceration.

Often described as the ________, these norms and values develop within the prison social system and help to define the inmate's image of the model prisoner.

_____ separates those inmates being victimized from the general prison population..

An inmate who finds that functioning in the prison society is difficult is called a ______ criminal.

The size of women's prisons and the number of women prisoners have contributed to