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Chapter 13
Corrections History and Structure
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 1
12/08/2011

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Ashurst-Sumners Act
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Legislation passed by congress in 1935 and amended in 1940 that prohibited interstate transportation of prison goods
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Boot camp
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a highly regimented correctional facility where inmates undergo extensive physical conditioning and discipline
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Camp Delata
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A facility a t the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba that is used for the confinement of suspected terrorists
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Co-correctional Prison
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An Instituation where men and women are confide together
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correctional System
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Programs, services, and institutions designed to manage people accused or convicted of crimes.
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congregate system
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a nineteenth-century model that held prisoners in isolation during the night, allowing them to work together during the day in silence; it was implemented at New York's Auburn Prison
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Hawes-Cooper Act
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Legislation passed by congress in 1929 requiring that prison produces be subject to the laws of the state to which they were shipped
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Jails
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An Institution to hold pretrial detainees and people convicted of less serious crimes
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Mark System
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System by which prisoners earned 'marks' for good behavior to achieve an early release from prison
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Medical model
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A treatment approach popular between 1930 and 1960 that attributed criminality to a biological or psychological defect of the offender
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Penitentiary house
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An eighteenth-century place of penitence for all convicted felons except those sentenced to death.
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Percy Amendment
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Law that allowed states to sell prison made goods across state lines as long as they complied with strict rules to make sure unions were consulted and to prevent manufactures from undercutting existing wage structures
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Prisons
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an Institution for the confinement of people who have been convicted of serious crimes
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Reformations
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a penal institution generally used to confine first-time offenders between the ages of 16 and 30
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Separate Confinement
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a nineteenth-century model of prison that separated inmates; it was was implemented in Pennsylvania Western and Eastern penitentiaries.
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conjugal visit
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a private visit that some prison system allow betwen inmates and their spouse to help them maintain sexual and interpersonal relationships
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low-security prison
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An institution that operates between the medium and minimum security levels
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maxium-security prison
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The most secure prison faciltiy, having high walls, gun towers, and barbed wire or electronic fences
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medium-security prison
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A middle-level prison facilty, which has more relaxed security measures and feweer inmates than a maxium-security prison
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Minium-security Prison
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A prison facilty with the lowest level of security that houses nondangerous stable offenders
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new-generation jails
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Jails that are designed to increase staff interaction with inmates by placing the staff
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