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ICriminal 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Rated Capacity | the number of inmates a prison can handle, according to experts |
| Operational Capacity | the number of inmates a prison can effectively accommodate, based of management considerations |
| Design Capacity | the number of inmates a prison originally built to hold |
| Rhodes v. Chapman | established that overcrowding alone in prisons is not cruel and unusual punishment |
| Totality of Conditions Approach | overcrowding with other negative conditions may lead to a finding against a prison system |
| Collective Incapacitation | found in states that rely on predetermined or fixed sentences |
| Selective Incapacitation | seekes to identify the most dangerous criminals with the goal of removing them from society |
| Maximum Security | massive old building with large populations, high fences, thick walls, gun towers, and housing death-row inmates |
| Medium Security | inmates have more freedom to socialize with each other, less intense supervision, tends to be smaller |
| Minimum Security | inmates generally housed in dormitory settings, more freedom to move about the facility, may have private rooms, unarmed guards |
| National Academy of Corrections | offers training for corrections personnel and legislators |
| Jail Industries | teach inmates marketable skills |
| Regional Jails | built and run using the combined resources of a variety of local jurisdictions |
| State Jail Standards | identify basic minimum condition necessary for inmate health and safety |
| Privatization | use of private rather then government-run prisons |
| Community Corrections | the use of officially ordered sanction permitting convicted offenders to remain in the community under conditional supervision |
| Probation | a sentence of imprisonment that is suspended and served while under supervision in the community |
| Parole | conditional supervised early release of inmates from correctional confinement |
| Restitution | a court requirement for alleged/convicted offenders to pay money or provide services to the victim of the crime or the community |
| Griffon c. Wisconsin | established probation officers may search a probationer’s residence without a warrant or probable cause |
| Revocation Hearing | a hearing before a legally constituted hearing body to determine whether a parolee has violated the conditions of their parole or probation |
| Mixed Sentencing | a sentence requiring a convicted offender to serve weekends in a confinement facility and receive probation supervision during the week |
| Community Service | a sentencing alternative requiring offenders to spend at least part of their time working for a community agency |
| Shock Probation | the offender serves a short period of time in custody and is released on probation |
| Home Confinement | offenders are confined to their own residences and remote location monitoring is used to track their location |
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