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Ch 6 & 7
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Penal Harm | A current movement that believes the purpose of corrections is to punish offenders as severely as possible |
| UNICOR | The trade name used by Federal Prison industries |
| Richardson v. McKnight | Supreme Court held that correctional officers employed by a private firm are not entitled to a qualified immunity from suit by prisoners, charging a section 1983 violation |
| Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko | Defines the protections and rights of inmates in private corporations facilities |
| Minimum-security prisons | Prisons with relaxed perimeter security, sometimes without fences or any other means of external security |
| Medium-security prisons | Prisons with single or double fencing, guarded towers or closed circuit television monitoring, sally-port entrances, & zonal security systems to control inmate movement within the institution |
| Maximum-security prisons | Prisons in which complete control of any and all prisoners can be applied at any time. |
| Segregation | A punishment unit in which inmates are separated from other inmates and are fed in their cells. Unlike the past, inmates must be adequately fed and permitted some time out of their cells to exercise |
| Supermax prison | Most secure of all prisons systems, in which there is typically a 23hr lockdown |
| Madrid v. Gomez | The judge in this case found that staff at the Pelican Bay Prison in Cali. had used excessive & unnecessary force on inmates. |
| Radical Design | In this wheelshaped config. corridors radiate like spokes from a control center at the hub |
| telephone-pole design | this prison has a long central corridor serving as the means for prisoners to go from one part of the prison to another. Extending out from the corridor are cross-arms containing housing, school, shops, and recreation areas. |
| courtyard design | a prison design in which corridors surround a courtyard. housing, educational, vocational, recreational, prison industry, and dinning areas face the courtyard. |
| campus design | open prison design that allows some freedom of movement; the units of the prison are housed in a complex of buildings surrounded by a fense |
| proactive warden | an approach to prison management that is focused on anticipating problems before they oocur |
| total institution | term coined by Irving Goffman to describe an institution that has total control over all aspects of those confined there. |
| no-frills policy | inmates will receive the bare minimum of food, services and programs, and medical care required by law |
| prison classification | a method of assessing inmate risks and needs that balances the security concerns of the institution with treatment needs of the individual |
| external classification systems | determine the level of security and control needed for the incoming prison population |
| internal classification systems | determines the cell or housing unit where inmates will be housed as well as facility programs to which they are assigned |
| big house | a type of large fortress-like prison that dominated corrections in the early part of the twentieth century |
| Gresham Sykes | developed a typology of prison social roles and inmate culture |
| inmate code | an unwritten but powerful code regulating inmates behavior; inmate codes are functional to both inmates and prison administrators because they tend to promote order within the walls |
| Donald Clemmer | known for his research at Southern Illinois Penitentiary; coined the term prisonization, which defines how inmates learn to adapt to prison while taking on the prison culture |
| prisonization | the process by which inmates learn and internalize the customers and culture of prison |
| prison culture | the values, norms, and attitudes that inmates form in terms od institutional survival |
| deprivation model | a model that views the losses experienced by an inmate during incarceration as one of the costs of imprisonment |
| importation model | a model that suggests that the influences prisoners bring into the prison affect their process of imprisonment |
| situational model | a model that suggests that prison culture is influenced by situations rather than remaining constant and can vary over time and place |
| administrative-control model | a model that contends that the management style of the prison has influenced over what takes place in inmate culture |
| argot | a form of slang inmates use in prison settings to express how they feel |
| prison gangs | a group of inmates who are bound together by mutual interests, have identifiable leadership. and act in concert to achieve a specific purpose that generally included the conduct of illegal activity |
| security threat groups (STGs) | the name that law enforcement and corrections officials give to groups that exhibit ganglike activity |
| contraband | unauthorized materials possessed by prisoners |
| sexual victimization | forcing an inmate to submit sexually to one or more inmates |
| Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) | this act established "zero tolerance" for rape in custodial settings, required data collection on the incidence of rape in each state, and established a National Prison Rape Elimination Commission |
| protective custody | a form of segregation, not for punishment but intended to isolate potential victims from predators |
| prison violence | can vary from riots to staff assaults, inmate assaults, staff assaults of inmates, or self-inflicted violence |
| inmate disturbance | a disturbance. either violent or nonviolent, that brings disruption or even closes down the prison |
| prison riot | collective respose of inmates that is violent, in which they strike out against what they consider unfair prison conditons |
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