Crim Exam 2

• first time offender but for a very serious crime
• 1. face problem/conflict
• 2.take action -> crime
• 3. caught/tried/convicted
• 4. law abiding up to this point
• no street connections, not in gangs

• someone who defines themselves as a criminal
• will not stop or change
• ie. Gangster or Mobsters

• Rapist:violent agressive inmate/predator
• target for violence by other inmates
• Child Molester: most despised, will be targeted
• administration must protect them

• IQ levels w/ 70 or below impacts social ability
• they tend to be targets/scapegoats w/in the system
• most crimes tend to be property crimes

• prevention: education, IV drug use, safer sex
• will test if an inmate if request most states don't test because of the price
• High rates- 1. FL 2.NY 3.TX

• 55+ years of age
• 4-5x the cost for health care
• diseases (alheimers)
• typically serve life terms "wheelchair brigades"

• women prisoners 120,000
• ounished differently

• quaker w ho visited london newgate prison
• saw women abused & half dressed said there needed to be
• "women guarding women"

• prison matrons
• yes & no
• when the crimes  deals w/ morality w/ prostitution/drugs chilvary goes away

• women reformatory for young minor offenders
• typically for white offenders
• trained for domestic skills & femininity
• allowed children?

• 1.7 million kids w/ incarc. parents
• women present (pregnant)
• most babies given up after 1-3 weeks to relative or foster home

• support network
• strong emotions -no taboo on same sex relations -less violence not a big emphasis on race

• men & women in the same facility 7% of prisons
• not research for after prison
• aftercare

• prison gangs
• important for protection
• membership from prior association
• highly organized

• mexican american from urban los angeles La "EME"
• formed in 1950 at duel vocational center (juveniles)
• Char: Ethnic Solidarity, Drug trafficking
• known for extreme violence
• tattoos: eme,mm,single handprint

• Mexican American rural Northern California
• orig. in soledad prison in 1960s
• char: street & prison components,deep hatred, btwn MM & NF blood in blood out
• membership extends beyond prison
• Tattoos large NF, Sombrero & dagger, 14,norte, eagle

• Black Americans
• Founded in San Quentin Prison by George Jackson (former black panther)
• Char: political gang, overthrow of U.S. gov., preserve dignity fight racis
• ID's: anti-gov mentality tattoos, crossed sabers & shotgun,black dragon

• White & "christian org"
• founded in San Quentin Prison in 1967
• Char: white suprecists/neo natzi ideology, membershi 4 life, extreme violence
• splinter group not all recog. by CA & Federal
• ID's:AB, Swatstikas, shamrock,ss doublle,lightning bolts,

• White some hispanics
• org in the late 1970s by AB member john stinson who recruited youth from preston youth corr. fac.
• purposed to act as middleman and muscle for the AB
• Id's: no standard but one of nazi or nla imagery

• Mexican American
• formed in Falsom Prison Ca in 1970s
• to protect texas imates from being victimized by calif. bases gangs MM & AB
• Char: recruit members from Cuba, Columbia & Mexico
• ID: TS

• should be avoided
• take gang leaders and ship them to other prisons
• results in starting their gang in different prisons

weapon used on inmate on inmate violence

• 10% survey
• Prison Rape elimination act 2003

• 1999
• male transgender placed in male prison & was assualted
• civil right violation of 8th ammendment
• won
• protection of transgenders in male facilities

place an at risk roomate under protection of a well respected strong inmate

• enforcing rules
• stopping escape
• fights

• unauthorized or excessive force
• James Marquet- tx least severity doctrine

where prison guards take turn "dancing" on an inmates face

• one reason why prison riots occur
• food
• medical care
• treatment from staff

• nothing planned
• riots just happened sudden outbreak
• maybe someone get hit

• another reason riots happen
• power difference/control
• usually between staff & inmated

• Sept 9-13 1971 (4 days)
• poor conditions, movement rights, change in religion & race conflict
• 3hours unlocked cells
• negotiation team 218 point list

• FEB 2ND 1980
• CONDITION
• overcrowding ,snitch system
• 36 hrs 33 inmates killed & 12 hostages

current movement that believes that the purpose of corrections is to punish to punish offenders as severly as possible

the trade name used by federal prison indnustries

model that views the losses experienced by an inmate d uring incarceration as one of the cost of imprisonment

inmates will recieve the bare  minimum of food, services, and programs required by law.

model that suggest that prison culture is influenced by situations rather than remaining constant & can vary over time & place

• coing by irving goffman
• an institution that has total control over all aspects of those confined there

process by which inmateslearn & internalize the culture of prison

dominant or male role in homosexual relationship in a prison society

the submissive of female role in a homosexual relationshp in prison society

formalized arrangement in which inmates can register thier complaints about the conditions of their confinement

projects found in a # of statesthat provides free legal assistance for those cases in which their conviction legalities are in question

a right such as liberty, or property, that is held to exist for its own sake and to constitute part of the legal order for society

• jail programs that give inmates grater authority in the operations of their living units
• staff see the purpose as teaching inmates to control unwise behavior instill conductand improve communication skills

minimum security residential facilities that provide scholling for children, recreational activities, and religious service.

• Inmates rights
• slave of the state doctrine

• civil rights act of 1871 section 1983
• inmates in state prison have standing in federal court/can sue
• mistreatment,medical care, and food

• religion-practice of islam
• inmates in state prison have standing in fed. court

• local, rules
• hands off policy for prisons

used to challenge the negality of confinement conditions

• attached a fee to complaints to sue because a lot of claims were stupid.
• must exhaust all local remedies
• inmates can't sue for emotional or psych. damage

knowledge inmate representing an inmate in the law of their case

• tried to stop inmates from helping eachother legally
• failed

• religion
• communication: inmates cant write to eachother.

• searches
• cant search in a targetable manner (harassing)
• intrusive- need a warrant (body cavity)

• Health Care, solitary confinement
• overcrowding

• due process
• equal protection-easily violated due to security

defer to prison officials

• school for the" idiotic"
• tested thing in them cruel
• offered bribing in a way
• assumed responsibility

• 820 pregnant white women
• "vitamin cocktails"
• was really a radioactive tracer
• deceit

• TX DOC
• used inmates to train dogs to hunt inmates that attempt to escape
• didn't stop the dogs from attacking inmates in simulations
• inmates sued