01:202:203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mail And Wire Fraud, Big Business, Nimby
19 Nov 2020
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The big house; average population 2,500 inmates per institution. Few treatment programs; custody as primary goal. Rehabilitation model; treatment programs with counselors and teachers. All 50 states and federal government operate prisons. Inmates generally serving sentence of over one year. Created by congress in 1930, the federal bureau of prisons houses inmates who have broken a federal law. Since the war on drugs in the 1980s, drug offenders in federal prisons make up over half the federal inmates. Federal prisoners are often a more sophisticated breed of criminal, from a higher socio-economic class than the typical state prisoner. More than 26% of federal inmates are citizens of other countries. The federal system has security classifications ranging from minimum to high security. States vary considerably in how they organize corrections. The executive branch of each state government administers its prisons. The total capacity of a state"s prisons reflects the size of the state"s population.
