Module VI Prisons | Module VI Prisons | Module VI Prisons | Module VI Angola | Module VI Angola |
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What is Sing Sing [prison]?
This is the location in which prison stripes originated
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What are telephone pole style, radial style, courtyard style, and campus style?
These are the four general architectural styles in which prisons - or parts of prisons - may be built
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What is the Walnut Street Jail?
This is the name of the very first jail made reference in the prisons documentary
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What is Louisiana?
The penal institution known as Angola is located in which US state?
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Who is Burl Cain?
This is the name of the Warden that is credited with making LSP Angola one of the least violent institutions in the US
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What are the basements and corners of men's prisons?
This is where women and children were held while incarcerated prior to developments that offered them their own correctional institutions
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What are the Pennsylvania System and the Auburn (Congregate and Silent) System?
These are the two dominant systems of prison development
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What is a maxi mogul key?
This is the name of the very long key that was difficult to replicate by prisoners used to open cells in prisons
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What is 'The Farm'?
This is the nickname used to refer to a very unique maximum security correctional institution in LA
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What are dogs?
Rather than spend money on high-tech equipment, these are used to detect contraband of various types throughout the prison
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Where is Marion, IL?
The first-ever supermax prison was located here
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What is a 'garote'?
This was an antiquated tool used to hold persons in place in a prison by securing their neck with an iron clasp and chained the individual to a wall
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What is the Pennsylvania system?
This system forced inmates to work from their cells and was also referred to as the segregate-and-silent system that was abandoned quickly due to its high cost to operate
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What is the Angola Rodeo?
LSP Angola is known for this major event held on prison grounds that thousands of visitors flock to see each year
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What is Point Lookout (I and II)?
This is the name of the graveyard on the premises of Angola
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What is the panopticon?
This is the ideological model designed by Jeremy Bentham that we now know to be somewhat faulty because it does not allow for total supervision of inmates. Only one prison ever attempted this model
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What are 'bridewells'?
This is the term used for old palaces that were used to hold prisoners, named after the first palace used in doing such
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What are 'the wall' and 'the anti-wall'?
These are the two groups of people described by one of the narrators of the prisons documentary that are for or against the use of incarceration
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What is 'self-sustaining'?
Angola is largely _____________________ in that much of the food and many other products are produced on grounds in order to reduce the expense of running such a large prison
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What is maximum?
This is the security level of Angola
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What is USP Alcatraz?
This was a federal supermax facility that existed prior to the federal supermax facility in Florence, CO that prevented the possibility of escape, albeit was highly expensive to run due to its location and structural demands
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What are 'hulks'?
This is the term for old warships that were no longer seaworthy used to hold prisoners
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Who is Elizabeth Fry?
This individual is credited with making the prison experience better for female prisoners
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What is over 5000 / 5400?
This is the approximate number of inmates held at Angola on any given day
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What is 90%?
This is the percentage of inmates expected to die while serving time at Angola
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What is dog trainer, wrestler, boxer, television station crew, radio station crew, literary magazine editor, museum employee, horse trainer, fisherman, dog trainer...
Name one of the privileged work positions an inmate may strive to get while serving time at Angola
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