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Reformatory style

A late-nineteenth-century correctional model based on the use of the indeterminate sentence and a belief in the possibility of rehabilitation, especially for youthful offenders. This model faded with the emergence of industrial prisons around the start of the twentieth century.

Rated capacity

The size of the correctional population an institution can effectively hold

Selective incapacitation

The number of inmates a prison was intended to hold when it was built or modified.

Operational capacity

A prison program through which inmates are temporarily released into the community to meet job responsibilities

Work release

The number of inmates a prison can effectively accommodate based upon management considerations

Design capacity

An imprisonment strategy that is based on the desire to prevent recurrent crime and that has abandoned all hope of rehabilitation

Medical model

A policy that seeks to protect society by incarcerating individuals deemed to be the most dangerous

Auburn system

A therapeutic perspective on correctional treatment that applies the diagnostic perspective of medical science to the handling of criminal offenders

Prison capacity

The number of inmates a prison can handle according to the judgment of experts

Warehousing

A form of imprisonment developed in New York State around 1820 that depended on mass prisons, where prisoners were held in congregate fashion and required to remain silent. This style of imprisonment was a primary competitor with the Pennsylvania system.