Study Guide Quiz 6 -- The Mission of Custody – Spring 2026
Difference between inmate-control and inmate-security
The primary mission of a confinement facility
Keeping inmates secure is best accomplished by addressing their needs
The reality about inmates in prison
Maximum inmate control
Reality about treatment programs in an “equal punishment” environment
Autocratic / oppressive control procedures
The tradeoff between treatment and security
Why Reform prisons that fail to provide treatment needs
Prisonization
Folkways: traditional behavior
Mores: essential behavior with strong social consequences
Customs: social interactions that define a group's uniqueness
Offense-type between supermax and maximum security
Cell-time between supermax and maximum security prisons
Cell occupancy between supermax and maximum security prisons
Inmate-movement between medium and minimum-security prisons
Officer to inmate ratio between Maximum / Minimum security
Incarceration rate for Prisons
(incarcerated / per 100,000 US residents within each group)
The total 2021 U.S. incarceration rate:
Men
Women
African American
Latino
Caucasian