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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- 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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- 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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- 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.
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- In the Stanford Prison Experiment, college-age students were put into a pseudo prison environment in order to study the impacts of "social forces" on participants' behavior.
- Unlike the Milgram study, in which each participant underwent the same experimental conditions, the Zimbardo study used random assignment so that half the participants were prison guards and the other half were prisoners.
- The experimental setting was made to physically resemble a prison, while simultaneously inducing "a psychological state of imprisonment."
- Likewise, prisoners were hostile to and resented their guards, and because of the psychological duress induced in the experiment, it had to be shut down after only 6 days.
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- Institutions organized to protect the community against perceived intentional dangers, with the welfare of the sequestered people not the immediate issue, including concentration camps, prisoner of war camps, penitentiaries and jails
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- In clinical and abnormal psychology, institutional syndrome refers to deficits or disabilities in social and life skills, which develop after a person has spent a long period living in mental hospitals, prisons, or other remote institutions.
- The term institutionalization can be used both in regard to the process of committing an individual to a mental hospital or prison, or to institutional syndrome; thus a person being "institutionalized" may mean either that he/she has been placed in an institution, or that he/she is suffering the psychological effects of having been in an institution for an extended period of time.
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- On September 30, 2009, 7.9% of sentenced prisoners in federal prisons 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.