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Life in Prison
Chapter 10
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Definitions
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Sometimes called civil liberties; all the natural
rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution (or
by individual state constitutions), such as free
speech and the right to religious beliefs and
practices; also the body of law concerning
natural rights.
Civil rights
The prison store as well as the incidental items
sold to inmates; also an inmate's account,
which is debited when an item is purchased, as
inmates are not permitted to have money
within correctional facilities.
Commissary
A corrections employee with supervisory
power over a suspect or convicted offender in
custody.
Correctional officer (CO)
A model of prisonization based on the belief
that the prison subculture stems from the way
inmates adapt to the severe psychological and
physical losses imposed by imprisonment.
Deprivation model
A policy that courts use to justify
nonintervention in the daily administration of
corrections agencies.
Hands-off doctrine
A model based on the assumption that the
inmate subculture arises not only from internal
prison experiences but also from external
patterns of behavior that the inmates take into
prison.
Importation model
The rules or standards of behavior, shared by
members of a social group, that define
Norms
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appropriate behavior.
The process of an inmate's becoming
accustomed to the subculture of prison life.
Prisonization
The interrelationship of roles, acts, and statuses Social system
of people who make up the social structure; a
social group or set of interacting persons or
groups considered a unitary whole because it
reflects the common values, social norms, and
objectives of the individuals whom it
comprises, even though the group is considered
distinct from those individuals.
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True/False
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In the 1974 case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth,
the U.S. Supreme Court held that, although an
incarcerated person loses some rights because
of institutional needs, “a prisoner is not wholly
stripped of constitutional protections when he
is imprisoned for crime.”
False
The commissary is where offenders are
allowed to purchase items for personal use
such as snacks, soap, etc.
True
Governors are responsible for hiring and firing
wardens or superintendents within their
respective jurisdictions.
False
In many jurisdictions, a two-year college
degree is required for entry-level officer
positions.
False
In 1995, a federal court held that the U.S.
Constitution does not prohibit the viewing of a
male inmate by a female correctional officer.
True
Under the authoritarian regime of prison
administration and management, inmate
cooperation was not necessary to maintain
peace within institutions.
False
More than 90 percent of all female inmates are
mothers, with three-fourths having children
under the age of 18.
False
The pains of imprisonment, particularly the
concept of deprivation, do not differ for men
and women.
False
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states
may create policies that restrict the number and
age of visitors an inmate may receive.
True
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Research suggests that in both prisons and jails
the highest rates of inmate rape occurred in
overcrowded facilities that were understaffed.
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Questions
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Which of the following generally does not
happen during the orientation period in a
prison?
Inmates have visitors
From 1872 until the 1960s, for the most part
the federal courts observed a _________
toward inmates and prisons, reasoning that
prison administration is a part of the executive,
not the judicial, branch of government.
Hands-off doctrine
_______ require constitutional protection;
_________ are there by the grace of prison
officials and may be withdrawn at their
discretion.
Rights; privileges
__________ may be restricted if prison
officials can show that the restriction is
necessary for security or for other recognized
penological purposes, such as discipline and
order.
Rights
In _________, the Court stated that allegations Estelle v. Gamble
of "inadvertent failure to provide adequate
medical care" or of a "negligent ... diagnos[is]"
do not establish the requisite state of mind for a
violation of the cruel and unusual punishment
clause.
In 1992 in __________, the U.S. Supreme
Court held that inmates may bring actions for
cruel and unusual punishment against prison
officials who engage in physical force that
results in injuries, even if those injuries are not
significant.
Hudson v. McMillian
Which of the following is the most important
reform in prison administration?
Increased attention to professionalism
What is the primary function of correctional
officers?
Maintain internal security and discipline
Who introduced the concept of prisonization?
Donald Clemmer
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_________ have the most extensive contact
and perhaps the greatest effect on inmates.
Correctional officer
The new inmate encounters prison subculture
through the process of socialization, or
_______.
Prisonization
In his study at the Washington State
Reformatory, ________ found that the degree
to which inmates became involved in
prisonization varied by the length of time the
inmate was in prison.
Stanton Wheeler
The traditional approach to an understanding of Importation
the inmate subculture, according to John Irwin
and Donald R. Cressey, is that inmates take
patterns of behavior with them to prison. This
constitutes the _________ model.
When an inmate arrives at prison, both the
formal organization and the inmate society
compete for his allegiance; these two represent
conflicting processes of socialization. Charles
W. Thomas calls the efforts of the formal
organization ________ and those of the inmate
society _________.
Resocialization; prisonization
In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an
inmate may bring a successful action against
prison officials who deny him or her adequate
medical care for a serious medical problem
only if it can be shown that the officials acted
with _____________________ to the inmate’s
needs.
Deliberate indifference
The most common disease among inmates is
__________________, with approximately 29
percent of inmates in a study in Maryland
testing positive (compared to about 2 percent
of the general population).
Hepatitis C
In 2004, Congress enacted the
___________________________ Act to divert
Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime
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mentally ill persons to special courts for
treatment.
The 1994 revision of the federal criminal code
eliminated ____________ that provided
college courses in prison.
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Grants
Two of the most destructive and highly
Attica, New York; Santa Fe, New Mexico
publicized U.S. prison riots occurred in 1971 in
_________________ and in 1980 in
________________________.