After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

• Summarize the history of institutional corrections.
• Evaluate the current perspectives in institutional corrections.
• Differentiate how incarcerated females (compared with males) have been dealt with the United States and how incarceration differs for male and female inmates.
• Assess the differences in security levels and the instutions designed to deal with each.
• Differentiate the advantages and disadvantages of private prisons.
• Summarize advances in technology institutional corrections and the benefits it offers.