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Video Conferencing is the technology used in correctional institutions to facilitate _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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New technology used in correctional institutions to provide medical care to inmates remotely is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Telemedicine

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The most secure and restrictive of all prisons, which are (in theory) reserved for the most dangerous of offenders are known as _____ Prisons.

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Correct Answer: Super maximum

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_____is a painful punishment generally administered with public humiliation.

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Correct Answer: Stocks

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_____ reflects the lack of interpersonal interaction experienced by inmates.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Reformation Movement was a movement born during the _____ meeting of the National Prison Association, which called for institutions focused on reformation.

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Correct Answer: 1870

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Pillory is a painful punishment that forces the offender into a standing position with _____ commonly nailed to the pillory wood.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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The study of principles of _____ for criminal (and in the past, immoral) acts is known as Penology.

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Correct Answer: Punishment

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Pennsylvania System is a penitentiary system based on the guiding philosophy that isolation and silence are necessary for offender_____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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A correctional facility used to imprison criminal offenders is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Penitentiary

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New Penology is the study of principles of punishment, often reflecting the contemporary turn toward the view that punishment is the primary role of prison.

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Correct Answer: True

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Mutilation is an early punishment that entailed the _____ of body parts to curtail a perpetrator’s ability to reoffend.

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Correct Answer: Amputation

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_____ facilities house mainly nonviolent whitecollar criminals who are thought to pose little or no physical risk to members of the community.

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Correct Answer: Minimum Security Prisons

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Medium Security Prisons are facilities house inmates who have committed less serious crimes, such as _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Most inmates incarcerated in maximum-security facilities have committed violent crimes such as murder and _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Matrons are correctional officers in a _____ prison or reformatory.

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Correct Answer: Women’s

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Locups are local facilities that are used to detain individuals for _____

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Correct Answer: 24 to 48 hrs

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Just deserts refer to the sentencing perspective that has dominated the purpose of incarceration since about the_____ . It is focused foremost on proportionality vis-à-vis the crime and the ensuing punishment.

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Correct Answer: 1980s

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_____ are local facilities managed by cities and counties that perform an overlapping but distinct purpose from prisons and penitentiaries.

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Correct Answer: Jails

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_____ is a form of punishment used in the early days of the United States as a penalty for the worst offenses.

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Correct Answer: Hanging

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Gossip’s Bridle or Scold’s helm is a heavy iron device that covered an offender’s head to punish and deter those who _____

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Correct Answer: Any of these

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Nonexistent inmates charged to the government (and taxpayer) by _____ prisons are known as Ghost Inmates.

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Correct Answer: Private

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Ghost Employees are nonexistent employees for whom private prisons have illegally charged the government (and ultimately taxpayer).

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Correct Answer: True

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An early punishment that consisted of serious beatings or whippings is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Flogging

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Declaration of Principles is a _____ paragraph document adopted at the 1870 meeting of the National Prison Association that called for institutions focused on reformation and rejected the notion that punishment was the ultimate goal of imprisonment.

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Correct Answer: 37

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Correctional Officers are people charged with managing inmates who are incarcerated in a jail or _____

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Correct Answer: Any of these

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Corporal Punishment is physical punishment in response to an offense designed to _____ an offender.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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A system whereby private businesses paid the state a fixed _____ fee for control of inmates is known as Convict Leasing System.

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Correct Answer: Annually

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Penitentiary system in which prison officials sold the labor and services of inmates to private contractors for a fixed price per inmate per day is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Contract System

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_____ System reflects the silent congregation experienced by inmates during the day.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Classification Review is an assessment made to determine an offender’s _____

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Correct Answer: Both

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An early form of punishment that also served as a record to alert others of an individual’s _____ offenses is known as Branding.

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Correct Answer: Past

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Technology recently adopted in prisons to detect contraband are known as Body imaging Scanners.

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ Codes arec statutes that criminalized trivial behavior, such as obscene language, of newly freed slaves.

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Correct Answer: Black

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A style of incarceration based on reformation is known as ______ System.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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