Study Guide 8

 Study Guide Quiz 8 --     CRJU 3311 -- State Prisons  

State and local prisons in operation across the United States

Three things prisons must do: 

                 Punish (Retribution) / Reform (Rehabilitate) / Secure (Protect the public)

Conflicting goals in corrections:

Not conflict: Secure (Protect the public)

Conflicting:  Punish and Reform

The punishment environment

The dilemma of goal-conflict is inmate jobs

Cheap prison labor

The modern equivalent

Death row inmates

Male / Female Inmate-age

Male / Female Inmate-education 

Male / Female Inmate-offending 

Prison-born Infants 

Female inmates pre-incarceration

Sentence Length

Life Sentence