Study Guide Q12 - 

Study Guide -- Quiz 12    

The average cost to build a new prison (per-prison-bed) for maximum security and minimum security

 Four local institutions in the US that house more offenders than many state's entire prison systems. 

 Main medical effects of overcrowded prisons

 Unintended outcome of prisons that historically became a punishment in and of themselves

Unrealized but stated purpose for prisons that became a punishment in and of themselves 

 Benefits of minimum security (or open) institutions

 Three prison crowding solutions

 The dominate trend in reducing prison overcrowding

 Policy implications in choosing to build our way out of overcrowding 

 Reasons for unprecedented level of prison growth since 1980

 Glaring truth that renders these policies for building unsupportable