cja 104 chapter 7 lecture
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Institutional Corrections
The Prison Experience
Norms and Values
The inmate code
▪ Don’t interfere with inmate interests
▪ Don’t quarrel with fellow inmates
▪ Don’t exploit inmates
▪ Don’t trust the guards or the things they stand for
Norms and Values Fish
Prisonization
Contemporary inmate society▪ Race
▪ Ethnicity
▪ Age
Prison Subculture: Deprivation or Importation?
Pains of imprisonment
▪ Deprivation of liberty, autonomy, security, goods and services, and heterosexual relationships
Three subcultures
▪ Convict, thief, “straight”
Adaptation
Adaptive Roles
▪ Doing time
▪ Gleaning
▪ Jailing
▪ Disorganized criminal
The Prison Economy Commissary ▪ Toiletries ▪ Tobacco▪ Snacks
Underground economy ▪ Food▪ Homemade wine▪ Drugs ▪ Sex
The Subculture of Women’s Prisons
Pseudofamilies
Homosexual roles
Less stable and less familial
than in the past
Male versus Female Subcultures Women less violent than men Women’s prisons less violent than men’s Women more responsive to prison programs than men
Women’s security levels mixed, men’s not Women less likely to segregate by race than men
Women form intimate relationships with staff
Sexual Misconduct Any behavior that is sexual in nature directed toward an inmate by an employee, official visitor, or agency representative
Includes
▪ Touching
▪ Threats
▪ Exposure
Sexual Misconduct Jeopardizes facility security
Creates stress and trauma for those involved
Exposes agency and staff to potential lawsuits
Creates a hostile work environment
Victimizes the vulnerable
Mothers and Their Children Over 60 percent of female inmates in state prisons are mothers of minor children
Lived with children prior to incarceration
Single parents
Prison nursery programs
Classification of Prisoners Treatment based on assessment of needs
Risk assessment
Treatment assessment
Predictive models
Equity based models
Educational and Vocational Programs
Educational programs
▪ Reading, English, math
▪ GED
▪ Practical problems
▪ Lack of basic skills
▪ Attitudes not conducive to learning
Educational and Vocational Programs Vocational programs▪ Job skills▪ Problems ▪ Less-desirable jobs▪ Obsolete or outdated equipment▪ Outdated skills ▪ Women’s programs “stereotypical” jobs▪ Lack of attitudes and habits necessary to keep a job▪ Barred by felony convictions
Prison Industries
Piece price system
Public account system
State-use system
Public works and ways system
Rehabilitative Programs Psychotherapy
Psychotropic medications
Reality therapy
Confrontation therapy
Transactional analysis
Cognitive skill building
Medical Services Inmates have right to medical
treatment while incarcerated
Hepatitis C
HIV
Poverty
Aging
Medical Services
Women inmates
▪ More serious medical problems
▪ Arthritis, asthma, cancer, heart problems, liver problems, hepatitis, and sexually transmitted disease
▪ Pregnancy
▪ High risk