Chapter 15

-Absense of disorder

-Some wardens overlook small rules to maintain it

-Enhances comfort

-Some prisons have better ones than others

-Use them as incentives for inmates to behave

-Age 18+

-Need to have driver's license

-High school diploma (depends on state, WI - yes)

-Confronted a problem requiring action

-Took action that violated the law

-Until the time of the offense they were just like everyone else

-Crime is a way of earning a living

-Frequent offenders

-Rapists, child molesters, and prostitutes

-Assume sex offenders will offend again

-Have to be on a sex offender registry (except prostitutes)

-Crime and substance abuse are linked

-Up to 80% of crimes involve: person under the influence, trying to steal a substance, or have a history of substance abuse

-Psychological or neurological abnormal

-More likely to be a victim than offender

-Psychopaths and sociopaths

-No proven link between crime and handicap

-Can be duped by other criminals and used as a scapegoat

-Caught more easily because they can't think as quickly

-Have to be segregated from other inmates

-Most places don't test for it because it means more work to keep them segregated

-Starting to add geriatric wings to prisons

-Many are there due to long-term sentences

-Medical treatment causes problems

-Adaptions brought in from the outside

-Much like the streets on the outside

-Just waiting to get out

-Not involved in anything

-Cuts themselves off from the outside world

-Are more successful inside prison than in the real world

-Dysfunctional inside and outside of prison

-Usually suicidal

-Unpredictable and awkward

-Places were inmates can buy snacks or stamps

-Given certain amount of money on a card per week

-Money from their jobs in prison can go on the card

-Drugs, extra food, cigarettes are bartered in secret

-Cigarettes are mainly used as currency

-Looking at probability of them committing a crime again by using their history

-Assess risk of escape and engaging in violence

-Can earn GED or even college credit

-Politically unpopular because they are educated for free

-Actually producing products prisoners help make

-Prisons benefit very well from this

-Badger State Industries products can only be bought by the government