Learning Objectives

  • Understand the differences between types of prisons.
  • Know what factors affect the operation of prisons.
  • Be able to explain what prisonization, mortification, importation, pains of imprisonment, and mature coping are and how they influence inmate behavior.
  • Explain what prison gangs are and why they exist in prisons.
  • Know the reasons why violence, riots, and sexual assaults occur in prisons and be familiar with some strategies for their reduction.
  • Understand why care for aging and physically and mentally ill inmates in prisons has become such an issue.
  • Recognize the need to respect the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) inmates.