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Is solitary Confinement a form of imprisonment in which an inmate is isolated from any human contact (except for members of prison staff)?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as an early philosophy toward prison inmates, essentially stating that inmates had no legal rights that had to be observed by prison administrators.

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Correct Answer: “Slave Of The State”

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_____ is defined as providing services to, and supervision for, paroled inmates who are about to reintegrate into the community.

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Correct Answer: Reentry And Aftercare

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_____ is the process whereby an inmate becomes socialized into the culture and social life of prison society so that adjusting to the norms of outside society becomes difficult.

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Correct Answer: Prisonization

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Is prisoners’ Rights the collective body of rights given to inmates by the courts, in such areas as conditions of confinement, communications (mail and letters), access to law library and medical facilities, and so on?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as in prison jargon, the sense that things “just don’t look right.”

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Correct Answer: JDLR

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_____ is defined as in Wolff v. McDonnell (1973), the Supreme Court stated that there is no iron curtain between the Constitution and the prisons of the United States; in sum, inmates have rights.

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Correct Answer: “Iron Curtain” Speech

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_____ is the belief by courts that inmates have certain constitutional rights that the courts must see are upheld and that prison administrators must obey.

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Correct Answer: Hands-On Doctrine

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Is hands-Off Doctrine the notion held by courts that prison administrators should be given free rein to run their prisons as they deem best?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as inmates age 55 and up.

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Correct Answer: Geriatric Inmates

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_____ is defined as one who works in a prison or jail and supervises correctional inmates.

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Correct Answer: Correctional Officer

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An inmate’s involuntary loss of freedom is considered to be which “pain of imprisonment?”

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Correct Answer: Deprivation of liberty

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Which of the following includes prison therapeutic communities, vocational training, and behavioral treatment?

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Correct Answer: Correctional programming

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What is considered the “big bitch” of correctional officers?

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Correct Answer: Inmates seem to be gaining power while officers are losing power.

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Under the inmates’ informal code, what does it mean when an inmate cautions, “don’t be a sucker” they mean “don’t interfere with other inmates’ business.”

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Correct Answer: False

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Which correctional officers would monitor inmates engaged in physical exercise and socialization outside?

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Correct Answer: Yard officers

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In inmate culture, “don’t break your word” pertains to the informal rule of don’t ______.

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Correct Answer: Exploit other inmates

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The early philosophy that prison inmates had no legal rights is reflected in the appellation of which of the following?

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Correct Answer: Slave of the state

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Which court case gave prisoners the right to get advance written notice of charges?

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Correct Answer: Wolff v. McDonnell

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Institutions have traditionally dealt with gangs in prisons by using segregation and isolation.

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Correct Answer: True

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The number of inmates serving time in solitary confinement has coincided with ______.

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Correct Answer: The concept of supermax prisons

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In which case did the Supreme Court conclude that “lawful incarceration brings about the necessary withdrawal or limitation of many privileges and rights?”

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Correct Answer: Price v. Johnston

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What types of challenges do mentally ill offenders pose to prison officials?

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Correct Answer: They are often violent and serving a lengthy sentence.

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Which individual is likely to be incarcerated in a jail?

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Correct Answer: Gavin has been formerly charged with a crime and is awaiting trial.

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Which rank of correctional officer oversees a certain number of line officers who have close daily contact with inmates?

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Correct Answer: Sergeants

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According to Gordon Hawkins, who are “the other prisoners” in correctional institutions?

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Correct Answer: Correctional officers

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