| Jury Selection Process / Courts | Corrections - Institutions | Corrections - Prison Populations | Corrections - Sentencing and Punishment | Corrections - Sentencing / Women and Sexuality in Prisons |
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What is a 'challenge for cause'?
These are limited in number in the selection process and the attorneys are NOT required to provide a reason for eliminating a prospective juror
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What is the 'special housing unit'?
In the reading, references were made to the "shoe". They were referring to this.
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What is the United States?
This country has more people in prison per capita than any other country in the world
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Who are legislators [who write criminal codes]?
This is who is responsible for the existence of mandatory sentencing
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What are state prisons?
This broad category of prisons may allow conjugal visits in select facilities
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What is a 'subpoena'?
This is the document a potential juror receives that orders them to appear for the jury selection process
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What is twice as many / 2X the prison population?
About this many people are serving their time in the community when compared to the prison population of the United States
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What are 'prisons' and 'jails'?
Sexual assault is more common in ________ than in _____________
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What are deterrence, incapacitation, retribution, and rehabilitation?
These are the four purposes of punishment
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What are property and drug crimes?
These are the broad genres of crimes that women are largely incarcerated for
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What is 'impeachment'?
This is the name of the process by which a federal judge may be removed from the bench. It may also be used to refer to the process to remove a state governor or president from office.
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What is supermax?
This is the security level of Tamms
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What is the BoP/ the federal prison system / FBoP?
This prison system is known for having a lower recidivism rate than state prison systems
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What is 'general deterrence'?
The prison experience as a whole is argued to represent this type of deterrence
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What is 7 in 10?
This is the proportion of female inmates that is estimated to have at least one child under age 18
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What are courts of appeals/intermediate courts, courts of general jurisdiction, courts of limited jurisdiction and courts of last resort/state supreme courts?
State court systems are comprised of these four general components
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What is prison loaf/meal loaf?
This is the food that may be served to inmates as a punishment for misbehaving while in prison
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What is 25%?
This is the percentage of the world's prison population that is held in U.S. prisons
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What are incapacitation and retribution?
These are the two more popular philosophies of punishment among the general public that are responsible for a larger prison population
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What are mandatory sentencing laws?
There are more of these type of laws on sentencing than in the past, especially with regard to drug crimes and violent crimes
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What are community safety and [if the defendant is a] flight risk?
These are two general reasons that bail may be denied
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What is a year or more?
Inmates who are held in prison are generally serving sentences of this length
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What is 2.3 million?
This is the prison population of the United States in 2013
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What are fines, intermediate options, prison time, up to the death penalty?
This is the broad range of sentencing options available for a person convicted of a crime
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What is a history of physical or sexual abuse?
This is the single factor that separates female inmates from male inmates
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What is 16?
Of any thousand crimes committed, this is the estimated number of people who are sent to prison
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