Incarceration and Prison Society

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Incarceration and Prison Society

• History and Goals
• Prison Organization
• Correctional Officers

• Prison Society
• Women in Prison
• Prison Programs
• Violence
• Prisoner Rights

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Prison History

• Big Houses
• South different
• Traditional Prison Population
• Changing Prison Population

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GOALS OF INCARCERATION
Custodial
Rehabilitation
Reintegration
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Governing Prisoners

• Authority Perception vs. Reality
• Issues
• Total Power?
• Rewards and Punishment
• Cooperation and Leadership

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Correctional Officers

• Role
• Recruitment

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Prison Society

• Prisonization
• Inmate Code
• Adaptive Roles
• Prison Economy

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Women In Prison

• 8 of new admissions.
• 6 of total population.
• Increase of 200 since 1980.

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1980..........................1995
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Women in Prison

• Social Relationships
• Subculture
• Programs
• Children

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Basic Prison Programs
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Basic Prison Programs
Diagnostic Services
elementary secondary college
Educational Programs
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Basic Prison Programs
Diagnostic Services
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Educational Programs
Vocational Programs
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Basic Prison Programs
Diagnostic Services
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elementary secondary college
Educational Programs
Vocational Programs
Counseling Services
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Basic Prison Programs
Diagnostic Services
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elementary secondary college
Educational Programs
Vocational Programs
Counseling Services
Recreation Services
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Basic Prison Programs
Diagnostic Services
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elementary secondary college
Educational Programs
Vocational Programs
Counseling Services
Recreation Services
Religious Services
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Basic Prison Programs
Diagnostic Services
carpentry plumbing electrical gardening printing k
eyboarding
elementary secondary college
Educational Programs
Vocational Programs
Counseling Services
Recreation Services
Religious Services
Medical Services
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Prison Industries

• Established early on
• Internal maintenance
• Industry shops and contract work
• Inefficient
• Opposed by labor unions

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Violence in prison

• Explanations
• Types
• Contributing factors that can be controlled

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Until the 1960s Supreme Court Hands Off
policy on prisons Cooper v. Pate (1964) -
prisoners may challenge the conditions of their
confinement under civil rights legislation.
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First Amendment Rights Theriault v. Carson (1977)
no sham religious practices allowed Procunier
v. Martinez (1974) censorship of mail only to
extent necessary to maintain security
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Fourth Amendment Rights Hudson v. Palmer (1984)
officials can search cell and confiscate
materials Bell v. Wolfish (1979) body searches
allowed if clear and legitimate purpose outweighs
invasion of personal privacy
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Eighth Amendment Rights Three principle tests
1) shocks conscience 2) unnecessarily cruel
3)goes beyond legitimate penal aims Estelle v.
Gamble (1976) no deliberate indifference to
medical needs
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14th Amendment Rights Wolff v. McDonnell (1974)
basic due process rights in disciplinary
hearings Lee v. Washington (1968) no racial
segregation in prisons only justified
temporarily to restore order or prevent violence
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Hello, is this microphone on?

• _____ is the model of correctional institutions
  that emphasizes maintenance of the offenders
  ties to family and community.
• Reintegration Model
• _____ are often used by prison officials as a
  communication source between officials and the
  inmate population.
• Inmate leaders
• _____ is the model of corrections that emphasizes
  security, discipline, and order.
• Custodial Model
• In ____ the Supreme Court said prisoners have
  basic due process rights in disciplinary hearings
• Wolff v. McDonnell (1974)
• _____ is the orientation that judges had toward
  prisoners rights prior to the 1960s.
• Hands off policy
• _____ is the system of barter and purchase based
  on cigarettes and other items that prisoners use
  to gain desired items
• Prison economy