Examples of Supermax Prisons in the following topics:
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- Hispanics (of all races) were 20.6% of the total jail and prison population in 2009.
- The modern prison system was born in London, influenced by the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham.
- Modern prison designs have sought to increasingly restrict and control the movement of prisoners throughout the facility, while permitting a maximal degree of direct monitoring by a smaller prison staff.
- Supermax prisons provide long term, segregated housing for inmates classified as the highest security risks in the prison system—the "worst of the worst" criminals, and those who pose a threat to national and international security.
- Hispanics (of all races) were 20.6% of the total jail and prison population in 2009.
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- The police offer each prisoner a bargain :
- If Prisoner A and Prisoner B both confess to the crime, each of them will serve two years in prison.
- If both A and B deny the crime, both of them will only serve one year in prison.
- As a result, all purely self-interested prisoners would betray each other, resulting in a two year prison sentence for both.
- If both players had denied the crime, they would each be serving only one year in prison.
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- One of the most infamous was the Stanford prison experiment.
- The Stanford prison experiment, conducted by researchers at Stanford in 1971, was funded by the military and meant to shed light on the sources of conflict between military guards and prisoners.
- Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and, at the request of the guards, readily harassed other prisoners who attempted to prevent it.
- The Stanford prison experiment, conducted by researchers at Stanford in 1971, was funded by the military and meant to shed light on the sources of conflict between military guards and prisoners.
- Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and, at the request of the guards, readily harassed other prisoners who attempted to prevent it.
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- This penal method, where prisoners worked during the day in groups and were kept in solitary confinement at night, was implemented at Auburn State Prison and Sing Sing at Ossining.
- Prisons saw increasing severity and often cruel methods of gagging and restraining prisoners.
- An increasing proportion of prisoners were new immigrants.
- Instead of fixed sentences, prisoners who did well could be released early.
- Describe America's prison and asylum system in the early nineteenth century
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- According to the BJS, the rate of violent crime victimization in the United States declined by more than two thirds between the years 1994 and 2009. 7.9% of sentenced prisoners in federal prisons on September 30, 2009 were in for violent crimes; 52.4% of sentenced prisoners in state prisons at yearend 2008 were in for violent crimes; and 21.6% of convicted inmates in jails in 2002 were in for violent crimes.
- Nearly 8% of sentenced prisoners in federal prisons on September 30, 2009 were in for violent crimes; 52.4% of sentenced prisoners in state prisons at yearend in 2008 were in for violent crimes; and 21.6% of convicted inmates in jails in 2002 were in for violent crimes.
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- The Stanford prison experiment was a study, conducted by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971, of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard and.
- Twenty-four males students were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoner or guard in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
- The guards enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some of the prisoners to psychological and physical torture.
- Many of the prisoners passively accepted abuse and, at the request of the guards, readily harassed other prisoners who attempted to prevent it.
- Explain how the Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments informed our understanding of human obedience
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- 48% of all Californians registered voters prefer life in prison without parole over the death penalty for a person convicted of first degree murder.
- Among Latino California registered voters, 55% prefer life in prison without parole over the death penalty for a person convicted of first degree murder.
- C = Californians ( registered voters ) preferring life in prison without parole over the death penalty for a person convicted of first degree murder
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- Countries differ in the restrictiveness of their laws and prison sentences.
- The lack of help given to convicts released from prison increases the odds of those convicts returning to prison.
- The average annual cost for one federal prisoner exceeds $20,000.
- Serving time in prison has become a normative event for young, lower-class African-American males.The average African-American, male, high-school dropout born in the 1960s in the U.S. had a nearly 60% chance of serving time in prison by the end of the 1990s.
- (This probability drops precipitously for college-educated African-Americans. ) A disproportionate percentage of African-Americans are in prison; African-Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population but nearly 46% of prison inmates.
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- formal social control refers to components of society that are designed for the resocialization of individuals who break formal rules; examples would include prisons and mental health institutions
- deterrence - some argue that punishments, e.g., prison time, will prevent people from committing future crimes
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- Correctional authorities may include prison wardens or social workers, depending on the type of offense.
- The most publicly visible form of punishment in the modern era is the prison.
- Prisons may serve as detention centers for prisoners after trial.
- Early prisons were used primarily to sequester criminals and little thought was given to living conditions within their walls.
- In America, the Quaker movement is commonly credited with establishing the idea that prisons should be used to reform criminals.