Learning Objectives
As a result of reading this chapter, you will be able to
- Describe correctional populations, employment, expenditures, and institutional types
- Review some of the factors that contribute to recent declines in prison and jail populations
- Explain the basic structure and function of state prisons
- Explain the basic structure and function of the federal prison system
- Describe how supermax prisons function, how they differ from other prisons, and findings concerning their effects on inmates and constitutionality
- Define and review the operation of private, for-profit prisons
- Review how local jails are organized and constructed, including the new generation jail
- Describe some of the technologies now in use in corrections, with particular emphasis on methods for halting drone and cell phone use by inmates