Deck 6: Jails

Question 1

Jails have been classified as the _________ for society's problems.

A) "recycling bin"
B) "dumping ground"
C) "easy fix"
D) "gathering place"

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which acronym is used for the major distinctions between jails and prisons?

A) KICKK
B) PUNCHH
C) SLAPP
D) TACKLE

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What number of people flow through jails in the United States every year?

A) Less than 9 million
B) About 12 million
C) About 15 million
D) More than 17 million

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The term "jail" is derived from the English term "gaol," which can be traced back to the time of ___________.

A) King William I
B) King Henry II
C) King Richard I
D) King Edward III

Question 5

In a somewhat ironic twist, John Howard died of _________.

A) jail fever
B) the Plague
C) a gunshot wound
D) tuberculosis

Question 6

It is believed that the first jail in the Americas was established where?

A) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
B) Plymouth, Massachusetts
C) Jamestown, Virginia
D) New Haven, Connecticut

Question 7

William Penn was a leader of which religious group in Pennsylvania that did not believe in corporal punishment but instead saw hard labor as the most effective way of handling crime?

A) Catholics
B) Presbyterians
C) Methodists
D) Quakers

Question 8

On September 15, 1786, a new law was enacted that allowed prisoners to be put to work doing what?

A) Building bridges
B) Working in fields
C) Digging graves
D) Repairing roads and sweeping streets

Question 9

At midyear 1999, nearly one in every how many U.S. residents was in a local jail?

A) 150
B) 250
C) 450
D) 650

Question 10

In 2010, what percentage of jail inmates were females?

A) 7%
B) 11%
C) 15%
D) 19%

Question 11

Relative to their number in the U.S. population, blacks were how many times more likely than whites to have been in jail?

A) 5
B) 4
C) 3
D) 2

Question 12

Which Amendment of the Constitution claims that "the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial"?

A) First
B) Fourth
C) Sixth
D) Fourteenth

Question 13

In 2010, about what percentage of jail inmates were convicted and serving sentences?

A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 30%
D) 40%

Question 14

Which of the following was not listed as a recommendation for alternatives to juvenile jailing?

A) Home detention
B) Electronic monitoring
C) Family-operated shelter care
D) Report centers

Question 15

In 2005, how many American jails housed fewer than 50 inmates?

A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 40%
D) 50%

Question 16

Traditional jails are referred to as having what kind of design?

A) Linear
B) Circular
C) Layered
D) Tiered

Question 17

New-generation jails use which kind of supervision?

A) Intermittent
B) Remote
C) Indirect
D) Direct

Question 18

Which of the following was the first jail facility to incorporate the new-generation design?

A) Cook County Jail
B) Contra Costa County Detention Center
C) Walnut Street Jail
D) Scott County Jail

Question 19

How many objectives have been identified for direct inmate supervision?

A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 7

Question 20

Approximately what percentage of jails in the United States are accredited?

A) 5%
B) 10%
C) 20%
D) 25%

Question 21

In order to appease the residents of his or her jurisdiction, the sheriff usually focuses on all of the following except?

A) Putting more deputies on the street
B) Making arrests
C) Improving jails
D) Answering calls for service

Question 22

The most notorious (and controversial) makeshift jail was established by Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona, where inmates are housed in ________,

A) bunkers
B) dungeons
C) shacks
D) tents

Question 23

What percentage of jail inmates have a mental illness?

A) 71%
B) 64%
C) 55%
D) 47%

Question 24

Approximately what percentage of the U.S. jail population suffers from some type of chronic or terminal medical condition?

A) 20%
B) 40%
C) 50%
D) 60%

Question 25

Studies have found that the rate of suicide among jail inmates is how many times greater than that of the general population?

A) 5
B) 4
C) 3
D) 2

Question 26

Jails are institutions for short-term confinement, usually less than one year. Prisons, on the other hand, are places of long-term confinement, ranging from one year to life.

Question 27

Although the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisoners was able to segregate females from the male population and separate the most serious offenders away from others, they were not able to abolish the fee system.

Question 28

More than half of all people housed in jail are pretrial detainees.

Question 29

Today, jails find themselves holding convicted felons for longer periods of time, because of crowding at state and federal prisons.

Question 30

When asked, only 30% of inmates felt as safe or safer in jail than on the streets where they had lived.

Question 31

Discuss the differences between jails and prisons. Give an example of the terms being used inappropriately in the news media or by a policymaker.

Question 32

Discuss some possible explanations as to why we continue to see an enormous increase in the number of jailed inmates at a time when crime has continued to decline.

Question 33

Discuss what it might be like to serve time in each of the three jail designs mentioned. If you were an inmate, which would you prefer? How about as a correctional officer?

Question 34

Discuss some of the problems related to housing females in jail today. What policies might we implement to eliminate some of these problems?

Question 35

Discuss whether you think it is fair to house both pretrial detainees and convicted persons in the same facility.

Question 36

Discuss what planners and policymakers should be doing to prepare our jails for the twenty-first century.

Question 37

Ethics Focus
You are a nurse at a local jail. You work dayshift, and most days, with exception of the days the doctor visits, you are the person in charge. Zack Jones is an inmate-patient in your facility. Zack has a history of seizures, and he receives medication daily for his condition. While conducting your daily rounds to administer medication to the inmates, he asks to speak with you privately about his condition. You agree to speak with him. During the conversation, he indicates that he has been feeling more and more fatigued and he thinks his medication may need to be changed. He also states that last Friday, your day off, he had a seizure that required correctional personnel to have him transported to a local hospital for treatment. You advise Zack that he must sign up for medical call to be evaluated by the medical staff. You remind him that he will be required to pay a $10 copay before the medical staff will see him. He asks you to "do him a favor" and waive the copay because he does not have the money to pay it. Although you would like to help him out, the policy does not allow the copay to be waived; therefore, you decline to waive the fee. The next day Zack collapses during visitation and subsequently dies. The medical examiner determines that the cause of death was a massive seizure.
-What are some of the ethical issues regarding medical copays?

Question 38

Ethics Focus
You are a nurse at a local jail. You work dayshift, and most days, with exception of the days the doctor visits, you are the person in charge. Zack Jones is an inmate-patient in your facility. Zack has a history of seizures, and he receives medication daily for his condition. While conducting your daily rounds to administer medication to the inmates, he asks to speak with you privately about his condition. You agree to speak with him. During the conversation, he indicates that he has been feeling more and more fatigued and he thinks his medication may need to be changed. He also states that last Friday, your day off, he had a seizure that required correctional personnel to have him transported to a local hospital for treatment. You advise Zack that he must sign up for medical call to be evaluated by the medical staff. You remind him that he will be required to pay a $10 copay before the medical staff will see him. He asks you to "do him a favor" and waive the copay because he does not have the money to pay it. Although you would like to help him out, the policy does not allow the copay to be waived; therefore, you decline to waive the fee. The next day Zack collapses during visitation and subsequently dies. The medical examiner determines that the cause of death was a massive seizure.
-How could you have handled the situation differently? Explain.

Question 39

Ethics Focus
You are a nurse at a local jail. You work dayshift, and most days, with exception of the days the doctor visits, you are the person in charge. Zack Jones is an inmate-patient in your facility. Zack has a history of seizures, and he receives medication daily for his condition. While conducting your daily rounds to administer medication to the inmates, he asks to speak with you privately about his condition. You agree to speak with him. During the conversation, he indicates that he has been feeling more and more fatigued and he thinks his medication may need to be changed. He also states that last Friday, your day off, he had a seizure that required correctional personnel to have him transported to a local hospital for treatment. You advise Zack that he must sign up for medical call to be evaluated by the medical staff. You remind him that he will be required to pay a $10 copay before the medical staff will see him. He asks you to "do him a favor" and waive the copay because he does not have the money to pay it. Although you would like to help him out, the policy does not allow the copay to be waived; therefore, you decline to waive the fee. The next day Zack collapses during visitation and subsequently dies. The medical examiner determines that the cause of death was a massive seizure.
-Would you recommend a change in policy for those with the inability to pay? Why or why not?