Exam 15: Incarceration and Prison Society

Discuss the issues that influence the difficulty of recruiting correctional officers.

In some states, it is not illegal for correctional officers to have sex with inmates.

Services offered through a full-time staff of nurses, augmented by contractual physician services, are a part of the prison's _______ program.

Approximately ________ of state prisoners have not completed their high school education.

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. Currently, about how many female inmates have received a high school diploma or GED when they enter prison?