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If you have committed a serious crime and have not been granted bail, you will most likely be held in a ________ while awaiting trial.

jail

If you were charged with a minor offense and sentenced to less than one year of incarceration, you would most likely be incarcerated in a

jail

Women make up approximately ________ percent of state and federal inmates in the United States.

7

Foreign-born offenders are often infected with

tuberculosis (TB)

Jack and his cell-mate Vlad get into an argument one day. Jack assaults Vlad and is put into solitary confinement. Because he has been targeted, Vlad is also removed from general population. It is likely that Vlad is placed into

administrative segregation.

The majority of jail inmates

are awaiting arraignment or trial.

As a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, prison administrators want to segregate you and your fellow members, from the general population of the prison. As a result, they place all known members of the Aryan Brotherhood in a special location in the prison, often called

gang block

The majority of the cost of confining senior citizens in prisons and jails can be attributed to

health care

The most common formal sanction for criminal behavior is

incarceration

Upon entering prison, most inmates go through a process where they learn and adopt the values and norms of the prison. Some of these values and norms include not portraying themselves as weak or needy, not associating with corrections officers, and to always be suspicious of the motives of others. The process of learning these norms and values is called

prisonization

Unlike men, women develop emotional bonds with other inmates; they often develop ________ while they are incarcerated.

pseudo-families

The most common form of treatment for mentally ill inmates is

psychotropic medications.

Most male inmates divide themselves by

race

Steve, Brandon, and Dylan are three friends who have been convicted of burglary. After their sentencing, they are all sent to a prison where they take many tests to determine their programming needs. After they complete these tests, they are each sent to a different prison. Steve does not have a prior prison record and is considered a nonviolent offender, so he is sent to a prison where he resides in a dormitory-style housing unit and has a great deal of freedom of movement. Brandon, like Steve, does not have a prior prison record, and is sent to a prison where he must share his cell with another inmate and he does not have very many opportunities for educational or vocational programs. Finally, Dylan is considered to be a high security risk given his prior record and his behavior while he was on bail awaiting trial. He is sent to a prison where he is subject to a count at least four times a day and spends very little time outside of his cell. The testing process that Steve, Brandon, and Dylan go through after being sentenced is referred to as

classification

Bob has been incarcerated in California for the past 5 years. During his sentence, he was able to have monthly visits with his wife where they were given a private trailer on the prison grounds. Bob has been granted a ________ visit with his wife.

conjugal

Beginning in the 1950s, most of the mental health hospitals in the United States were closed, and mentally ill individuals were returned to the community. The process of closing mental hospitals and returning the mentally ill to the community is called

deinstitutionalization

Upon entering prison, most inmates go through a process where they learn and adopt the values and norms of the prison. Some of these values and norms include not portraying themselves as weak or needy, not associating with corrections officers, and not snitching on others. The norms and values of prisons that inmates learn is referred to as the

inmate code

Which group of inmates is considered to be on the bottom of the hierarchy of prison society?

inmates convicted of sex offenses

Steve is a convicted sex offender who has been in prison for 15 years. His sentence is completed, but authorities are worried that he might commit future sex offenses. Because of this fear, Steve is released from prison and held in an institution indefinitely. Steve has been

sent into a civil commitment program.

Tom overhears another inmate talking about his girlfriend and the inmate calls her a "mule." If this inmate's girlfriend is a mule, she most likely

smuggled drugs into the prison.