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Administration Of Justice
Chapter 11
CHAPTER 11
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Prisons and Jails </DIR>
Prisons Today
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Numbers and Types of Prisons </DIR>
Prison Population of the United States
Prisons Today
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Race </DIR>
Prison Population and Capacity in the U.S.
Prisons Today
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Types of Crimes </DIR>
Prisons Today
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Inmates
State
Prison Systems </DIR>
Prisons Today
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Security Levels
maximum
medium
minimum </DIR>
Prisons Today
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Maximum
high fences/walls of concrete
barriers between living area and outer perimeter
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—electric perimeters
—laser motion detectors
—electronic and pneumatic locking systems
—metal detectors
—X-ray machines
—television surveillance </DIR></DIR>
Prisons Today
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Maximum
thick walls
secure cells
gun towers
armed guards
radio communication between staff </DIR>
Prisons Today
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Medium
Similar in design to maximum security facilities, however, they allow prisoners more freedom. In them prisoners can usually:
associate with other prisoners
go to the prison yard
use exercise room/equipment
visit the library
take showers and use bathroom facilities
with less supervision </DIR>
Prisons Today
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Medium
While individual cells predominate, dormitory style housing is sometimes used.
Cells and living quarters tend to have more windows.
These facilities tend to have barbed wire fences instead of large stone walls. </DIR>
Prisons Today
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Medium
"Count"
The process of counting inmates during the course of a day. Times are random, and all business stops until the count is verified. </DIR>
Rates of Imprisonment in the United States
Prisons Today
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Minimum
Housing tends to be dormitory style, and prisoners usually have freedom of movement within the facility.
Work is done under general supervision only.
Guards are unarmed, and gun towers do not exist.
Fences, if they exist, are low and sometimes unlocked.
"Counts" are usually not taken.
Prisoners are sometimes allowed to wear their own clothes.
The Federal
Prison System </DIR>
Federal Prison System
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History </DIR>
Federal Correctional Facilities
Federal Prison System
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Security Levels
administrative maximum (ADMAX)
high security
medium security
low security
minimum security
administrative facility </DIR>
Federal Prison System
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Administrative Maximum (ADMAX) </DIR>
Federal Prison System
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Administrative Maximum (ADMAX) </DIR>
Federal Prison System
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High Security (U.S. Penitentiaries) </DIR>
Federal Prison System
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Medium Security (Federal Correctional Institutions) </DIR>
Federal Prison System
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Low Security </DIR>
Federal Prison System
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Minimum Security (Federal Prison Camps) </DIR>
Federal Prison System
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Administrative Facility
Jails </DIR>
Jails
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original purpose - Short-term confinement of suspects following arrest and awaiting trial.
current use - Jails hold those convicted of misdemeanors and some felonies, as well as holding suspects following arrest and awaiting trial. </DIR>
Jails
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Statistics - 2002</DIR>
Jails
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Profile </DIR>
Jails
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Profile</DIR>
Causes of Jail Deaths in the U.S.
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Current Issues for Prisons </DIR>
Women and Jail
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Women comprise only 11% of the country’s jail population.
They face a number of special problems, including: </DIR>
Women and Jail
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4% of female inmates are pregnant when they come to jail
not all jails fully separate men and women
substance abuse is high </DIR>
Women and Jail
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Women make up 22% of the correctional force in jails across the nation.
But many jails have no female correctional personnel on staff. </DIR>
Growth of Jails
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end of 1980s - Jails were overcrowded.
Court ordered caps put on population.
2000 - Jail capacity increased, and occupancy was at 92% of rated capacity.</DIR>
Growth of Jails
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new jail management strategy - direct supervision
system of pods or modular self-contained housing areas
open environment
"new generation" jails </DIR>
Future of Jails
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adding critical programs for inmates
increasing jail industries
use of citizen volunteers
jail "boot camps" </DIR>
Private Prisons
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States use private prisons to:
reduce overcrowding
lower operating expenses
avoid lawsuits </DIR>.
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