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| any in-prison programs designed to meet an inmate's needs and lower recidivism |
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| management strategu to meet minimum critical staffing by asking corrections officers to work the next tour of duty |
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| a "go-slow" approach to design and implementation of new programs |
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| isolationism and withdrawal |
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| implementing programs without a systematic, rational scheme |
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| proces of dividing and assigning incoming inmates into meaningful categories for assignment to institutions and programs |
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| process leading managers to assign inmates to an instritution |
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| process of assigning inmates to types of programs and work and cell locations |
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| the process by which inmate control and programming are changed |
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| opportunity for inmates to seek medical treatment |
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| inmates seeking sick calls for other than medical needs |
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| any treatment programs designed to treat physical or psychological maladies of inmates |
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| viral infections resistant to medical treatments |
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| two or more occuring medical treatment needs to an inmate |
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| a program of recruiting clergy who minister to the religious needs of inmates |
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| unable to read, write, or spell above the third-grade level |
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general equivalency diploma
certifies inmates achievement of the equivalent of a high school diploma |
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| prison treatment program stressing full-time collefge work, group counselling, and aftercare followinmg parole |
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| program of temporary leave from a prison for educational, work, or emergency purposes |
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| any training program designed to increase job readiness and skills for inmates |
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| Cognitivie behavioral intervention |
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| a structured process that attempts to change how an offender thinks and sees the world through cognitive restructing and behavioral rehearsal |
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| mental processes that generally hinder change in prisoners but can be corrected by various thinking, speaking, and conceptual treatments |
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| treatment programs within a correctional system designed to help offenders rein in their anger and aggression by understanding how and why anger arises, and rehearsing alternative nonviolent expressions |
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| a term applied to a participative, group-based approach to treating criminal behavior and drug addiction |
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| a treatment approach to prevent relapse and recidivism by use of existing community services, often bundled into a reentry plan to lower recidivism |
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| offenders housed in a local facility, including those waiting for trial, those awaiting transport to a state or federal prison, and those convicted of a crime, usually punishable by less than one year |
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| US constitution - those charged with a crime are presumed innocent until convicted in a court of law |
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| developed in the 1970s, a new-generation jail is a facility designed for maximum interaction between the staff and inmates |
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| podular/direct supervision |
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| housing units; inmates have interaction with staff and other inmates through day rooms or common areas |
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| inmates held in jail waiting transportation to a federal or state prison |
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| fees charged to state and federal prison systems to house inmates in local jails |
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| a term used by inmates to refer to fined imposed as a resiult of a criminal conviction |
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| a jail inmate who is allowed to live at home during the week and who must report to jail to serve his or her sentence on weekends |
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| when an arrestee is released from jail under promise that they will return for their court hearing |
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programs and sanctions designed to release those jail inmates who are awaiting trial
alternatives can include electronic monitoring, supervision, treatment programs, house arrest, and other creative options designed to reduce jail populations |
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| pretrial jail incarceration |
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| holding someone accused of a crime who cannot make bail |
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| when an arrestee is released from jail under promise that they will return for their court hearing |
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| information related to an offender's prior arrests and convictions |
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| a range of diagnosed mental illnesses that often afflict jail inmates |
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| alternative to death and flogging |
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any correctional punishment less than the death penalty
suhc as: imprisonment, probation, etc |
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| any prison whose main products would be agricultural and whose instritutional value is the foodstuffs and produce grown |
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| a low-security facility organized around work on the exterior of the prison facility |
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| offenders are assigfned to level of custody, work assignment, and treatments |
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| offenders are assigned to types of custody and treatment programs, based on such factors as offense, escape potential, substance abuse, etc |
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| basic and mandatory functions for assigning prisoners to support institutional objectives |
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prison gangs
criminal enterprise having an organizational structure and internal leadership, acting as an ongoing vcriminal conspiracy that uses violence and other criminal activity to continue |
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| predominant public administration format for prison operaitons |
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| level of immediate control exercised over offenders within correctional institutions |
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| level of immediate control exercised over offenders within correctional institutions |
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| prisoners not restricted to tighter controls than other inmates |
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| programs bridhing inmate status from imprisonment to community control |
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| line prison officers working directly withj the inmate population |
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| inmate term for correctional officers |
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| organization of correctional officers for purposes of improved work conditions of salaries |
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| ploy used by correctional officers to strengthen their hands in negotiations with command officers |
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| institutional control over inmates and prison operations |
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| process of adopting the culture of the prison |
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| contrl of prison and inmates by not permitting inmates to leave their cells or rooms |
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| method used to verify that all inmates are present in prison |
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| double-gated entry or exit point that restricts movement between the free world and prison |
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| written documents designed to contrl inmates behavior |
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| any object forbidden in prison |
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| process of detecting inmate contraband by manual search of inmates body |
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| detecting inmate contraband by visual inspection of bodies |
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| to hide contraband objects within the rectum or vagina of prison inmates |
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| cell search to detect and contrl contraband |
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| flight from prison facilities and illegal absences from institutions |
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| barrier to prevent inmate escape through electronic punishment or death |
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| organization of custody staff into ranks of armed forces |
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| control scheme uniting all staff into a coherent and unified force to attain prison objectives |
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