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1. Incarceration and Prison Society
• History and Goals
• Prison Organization
• Correctional
Officers
• Prison Society
• Women in Prison
• Prison Programs
• Violence
• Prisoner Rights

2. Prison History
• Big Houses
– South different
• Traditional Prison
Population
• Changing Prison
Population

3. GOALS OF I NCARCERATI ON
Custodial Rehabilitation Reintegration

5. Governing Prisoners
• Authority:
Perception vs.
Reality
• Issues
– Total Power?
– Rewards and
Punishment
– Cooperation and
Leadership

6. Correctional Officers
• Role
• Recruitment

7. Prison Society
• Prisonization
• InmateCode
• AdaptiveRoles
• Prison Economy

8. Women In Prison
• 8% of new admissions.
• 6% of total population.
• Increase of 200% since 1980.
200%
100%
0%
1980..........................1995

10. Women in Prison
• Social
Relationships
• Subculture
• Programs
• Children

11. Basic Prison Programs
Diagnostic Services

12. Diagnostic Services
Educational
Programs
elementary
secondary
college
Basic Prison ProgramsPrison Programs

13. Diagnostic Services
Educational
Programs
Vocational
Programs
carpentry
plumbing
electrical
gardening
printing
keyboarding
Basic Prison Programs
elementary
secondary
college

14. Diagnostic Services
Educational
Programs
Vocational
Programs
carpentry
plumbing
electrical
gardening
printing
keyboarding
Counseling
Services
Basic Prison Programs
elementary
secondary
college

15. Diagnostic Services
Educational
Programs
Vocational
Programs
carpentry
plumbing
electrical
gardening
printing
keyboarding
Counseling
Services
Recreation
Services
Basic Prison Programs
elementary
secondary
college

16. Diagnostic Services
Educational
Programs
Vocational
Programs
carpentry
plumbing
electrical
gardening
printing
keyboarding
Counseling
Services
Recreation
Services
Religious
Services
Basic Prison Programs
elementary
secondary
college

17. Diagnostic Services
Educational
Programs
Vocational
Programs
carpentry
plumbing
electrical
gardening
printing
keyboarding
Counseling
Services
Recreation
Services
Religious
Services
Medical
Services
Basic Prison ProgramsBasic Prison Programs
elementary
secondary
college

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

19. Violence in prison
• Explanat ions
• Types
• Cont ribut ing
f act ors t hat can be
cont rolled

20. 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.

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. Hello, is this microphone on?
• _____ is the model of correctional institutions that emphasizes maintenance of
the offender’s 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