Exam 2 Review
Correctional Systems and Practices
- Know the proportion of males,
females and racial/ethnic groups in prisons
- When did the first all
women's prison run by a female open and where?
- Why did prison industries
become popular in the early history of U.S. prisons?
- What grade level must an
inmate be at to be considered for parole in Texas? What educational
achievement level do most Texas
prisoners have when the enter prison?
- Study the graph I presented
on the prison incarceration rates from 1925 to present. Note the
relationships between the years. For example how does the present
rate compare to 1925? 1960? When did it begin to rise unabated? What is
the most recent trend?
- Approximately, how many
inmates are incarcerated in America's prisons today?
Texas
prisons?
- What is the incarceration
rate for American prisons today?
- Know the racial breakdown of
prisons populations.
- What is one of the main
reasons the incarceration rate has risen in the last two decades?
- Inmates typically hang with
people of similar characteristics. What is the most important?
- What are the primary goals of
prisons today in America? Security, rehabilitation, reform?
- Know the composition of the
five prison gangs on page 199.
- Know the number of adults on
probation in America.
- Know the official name of the
probation departments in Texas
and the term for a probation officer.
- What additional probation
objective was added by the Texas Legislature in 1989?
- What is the maximum number of
years that a felony probationer can serve in a prison if revoked?
- Know the composition of the Texas parole board
and the eligibility requirements to serve. What size of panels do they
work in?
- How many years must a
defendant convicted of a capital offense and sentenced to life serve
before being eligible for parole?
- The chances of being released
on parole in Texas
have changed over time. It is
better today than say 20 years ago?
- Know the probability that an
offender will be re-arrested in 6 months; in the first year and in 2
years.
- What are the chances of an
inmate being released on parole today compared to about 20 years ago?
- What civil rights will an
offender lose in Texas
upon a conviction for a felony offense?
- What is the position held by
the person who is in charge of the Bexar County Jail?
- Know the brief history of
female prisons in the United
States that I covered in class.
- Know the legal rights of
parolees facing revocation granted by the Supreme Court in the cases of Morrisey v. Brewer and Gangnon
v. Scarpelli.
Be familiar with the following terms, names, etc. Some were not covered in class but can be
found in your book.
- shakedown
- supermax
- administrative segregation
- contract system
- lease system
- states use system
- PS/PIEC
- UNICOR
- Ashurst-Sumners
Act
- Hawes-Cooper Act
- Texas Correctional Industries
- prisonization
- prison
argot: snitch, right guy, hack, con, butch, wolf, punk, moose,
gorilla, etc.
- John Augustus
- Zebulon Brockway
- Alexander Machonichie
- mandatory supervision
- parole
- probation
- podular,
campus, linear design and courtyard prison designs
- snitch
- butch
- wolf
- punk