Corrections

_____ refers to the number of inmates that can be accommodated based on a facility's staff and existing programs and services.

_____ refers to the number of inmates that planners intended a prison facility to house.

At yearend 2011,state prisons in the U.S.were operating between full and _____ percent above capacity.

Eliminating present overcrowding in prisons would require building _____ new prisons.

Which of the following acts requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics to perform a comprehensive statistical review and analysis of the incidents and effects of sexual victimization for each calendar year?

An approach to sentencing that emphasizes interchangeability of punishments is called:

The current term for prison gangs by the prison administration is:

The prison gang _____ was founded in 1966 at San Quentin Prison and is considered the most politically oriented of the major state prison gangs;its racial makeup is black.

The prison gang _____ was formed in the late 1950s in California's youth facility at Duel;its racial makeup is Mexican-American/Hispanic.

The prison gang _____ was founded in 1970 in Rio Piedras Prison,Puerto Rico;its racial makeup is Puerto Rican American/Hispanic.

Research studies have revealed that jail administrators commonly use _____ to define STG membership.

In the 2004 study by California State University,the University of Missouri,and the National Youth Gang Center,jail administrators estimated gang membership at _____ percent.

Any action by a group of inmates that constitutes a forcible attempt to gain control of a facility or area within the facility is a(n):

The 1971 riot at the _____ was known as the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the civil war.

In the 1980 riot at the _____,thirty-three inmates were tortured,dismembered,decapitated,burned alive,and killed by fellow inmates.

The longest prison riot in U.S.history occurred at the _____ where inmates killed nine of their fellow inmates during an 11-day siege.

The Kerner Commission recommended that the only way to prevent riots was to:

The prison facility at _____ was referred to as America's "Devil's Island."

Alcatraz was closed because:

The development of supermax prisons in the federal system is an example of the _____ model.