What was the first penitentiary in Canada
Kingston penitentiary
- corporal punishment improper
- overcrowding
- control those who threatened moral and social fabric
What are the two models of prisons
- Pennsylvania model
- Auburn model
What is the architecture of Pennsylvania model
- instil fear
- represent separation
What is the operation and life inside the Pennsylvania model
- separate cell
- religious influence
- individual yard
- allows guards to have clear sightlines
What is the architecture of auburn model and design/life inside
- efficient structure
- smaller cells
- uniforms
- lock step
- work outside cell
what are the estimated causes of crime and ideas to reform them
- alcoholism
- laziness
- lack of moral values
- hard labour
- discipline
- religion
- strict silence
what is the two year rule
two years less a day - prov/terr
more than two years - federal
why do women cost more?
- different needs
- new medical tests
- different traumas, pathways
- higher needs
- trained staff
- programs
- fewer institutions for women/travel costs
what is maximum security prison
- more serious offenders
- secure, highly controlled
- armed control area
what are medium security prisons
- similar perimeter as max but no armed posts within
- diverse housing, more direct supervision
- more opportunities
What is a minimum security institution
- more relaxed security
- no armed officers, surveillance equipment
- movement usually only restricted at night to group housing
what are two types of institutional security
- static
- dynamic
What is meeting requirements of law, policy, and legislation
- rule of law and duty to act fairly
What is a total institution
- full controlled environment
What is continuum of correctional institutions
- institutions have different personalities….
What are status degredation ceremonies
- lose possessions
- gain uniforms, numbers
- identity override by prison identities
What are the pains of imprisonment
- deprivations
- relationships
- ability to make decisions
- feel safe
What are prison subculture: indicators
1.. values - through prisonization
- institutionalization can occur, often state raised offenders
2. inmate code
3. social or argot roles
4. specialized vocab
What is prizonization
the process through which new inmates learn the prison subculture
What is institutionalization
the deficits or disabilities in social and life skills, which develops after a person has spent a long period of time living in prisons.
What is inmate code
the rules and values that have developed among prisoners inside prisons’ social systems.
What are social/argot roles
What is case management
- match offenders to programs/services
- classification to identify institutional placement and correctional plan from
1. static risk factors
2. dynamic risk factors
What are static risk factors
Things cannot be changes ex: criminal history
