| Term |
Definition |
| Total Institutions |
Completely segregated, kept under surveillance, and forced to obey strict rules |
| Punk |
Weak inmate who is unable to protect him/herself |
| Snitch |
Inmate who asks guard for help or tells on other inmate |
| Hustling |
Sales of illegal comodities (drugs, alcohol, weapons...) within prison |
| Niche |
Insulation from the pains of imprisonment |
| Inmate Subculture |
norms and rules within a prison |
| Inmate Social Code |
values and interpersonal codes within a prison |
| Argot |
language that influences prison culture |
| Prisonization |
assimilation into prison culture |
| Right Guy |
inmate who strictly follows the social code |
| Deprivation Model |
Theory that imprisonment itself chanes the inmates into different more violent people |
| Importation Model |
Theory that the prison culture is just the accumulation of the existing culture in the outside world |
| Administrative Control Model |
Theory that inmate subculture is a result of the type of prison management (good v. bad) |
| New Inmate Subculture |
African american and latino inmates are more organized and powerful within prison |
| Make-Believe Family |
A fake family of peers in female prisons to compensate for loosing family relations |
| Theraputic Community |
Drug treatment model using positive peer pressure |
| Less Eligibility |
Idea that prisoners should be treated as less than the most underpriveledged law-abiding citizen |
| Special-Needs Inmate |
Inmates with carying social and psychological problems (mentally ill, elderly...) |
| Work (Furlough) Release |
Treatment program allowing prisoners to leave prison during the daytime to work |
| Percy Amendment |
Allows prison made goods to be sold out of state under strict regulation |
| Conjugal Visit |
Visits to inmates from spouses and family to continue strong outside relationships |
| Newjack |
newly hired correction officer |
| Inmate-Balance Theory |
Riots ensuing because corrections officers make efforts to gain control over inamtes |
| Administrative-Control Theory |
Theory that prison violence is caused by mismanagement |
| Civil Death |
Termination of the civil rights of convicted felons (no longer in use) |
| Hands-Off Doctrine |
Judicial policy of not interfering with administration of prison systems |
| Exceptional Circumstance Doctrine |
Courts only hear cases involving the right to medical treatment involving a total disreguard of human dignity and denying other cases |
| Cruel and Unusual Punishment |
Punishment in excess and violating the eigth amendment |
| Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 |
Limits the number of prison cases heard in federal court to only those in which other measures are exhausted |
| Parole |
Early release of a prisoner under conditions determined by a parole board |
| Mandatory Parole Release |
Release date is set at time of confinement. Can be delayed because of rule violations |
| Technical Parole Violation |
Revocation of parole because conditions of parole have been violated |
| Intensive Supervision Parole |
Shock parole where a parolee is matched to a specific supervisor by personality |
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