Quiz 8 Corrections (Right one)

State and local prisons in operation across the United States

1600

Three things prisons must do:

We must punish which is retribution, reform which is rehabilitation, and we must secure, which is to protect the public

Conflicting goals in corrections

Not conflicting: Secure (protect the public)

Conflicting: Punish and reform

Why do we punish? To not punish is to condone criminal behavior

Why do we reform? So they can be made fit for non-criminal lives in the community

How do we keep them secure? Put them in an isolated and a personal machine with a fixed autocratic routine

Forcing them into idleness-freezing individual initiative- needed for reintegration

The punishment environment

Produces bitterness and a sense of self defeat in the inmates. Making it impossible to provide programs necessary for non-criminal behavior

The dilemma of goal-conflict is inmate jobs

Counter productive for two reasons: Jobs are: Mopping the floors, working in kitchen, and doing laundry

1. In order to spread the few jobs out to the many inmates, supervisors deliberately slow production (Bad work ethic)

2. Not centered on real world work, education, or vocation programs. Serving institution needs and not inmates.

Cheap Prison Labor

North- Prison industries

South- Prison agricultural farms

Helped pay for prisons but didn’t work due to promoting corruption, especially in wardens and politicians.

The modern equivalent

Work camps

Death row inmates

Keeps them constructively occupied by providing rehabilitative programs

Male/Female Inmate Age

Male- 25-29

Female- 35-39

Male/Female Inmate Education

Male- 70%

Female- 36%

Do not have high school diploma or GED

Male/Female Inmate Offending

Male: Violent crimes (Murder, robbery, rape, assault)

Female: Property crimes (Larceny)

Prison Born Infants

(Social implications-born in prison) So they are placed with relatives. One relative is typically not available to provide care- the father

Female Inmates pre-incarceration

Many were abused and as a result are in need of greater psychological care

Sentence Length

Sanction/Sentence for most inmates in prison is eight years

Life Sentence

Proportion of all inmates sentenced to life is 9%

(Sometimes only lasts five years as people age out of their criminality-less of a threat aged)