CLJ 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Penology, Supermax Prison, Solitary Confinement

• School: UIC
• Department: Criminology, Law, and Justice
• Course: CLJ 240
• Professor: Laurel A Mazer

Document Summary

Clj 240 chapter 10 corrections organizations and operation. Correctional facilities as organizations: general mission and features. 2 management subsystems: concerned with primarily with managing correctional employees, concerned primarily with delivering correctional services to a designated offender population. Mission of correctional agencies: to protect the citizens from crime by safely and securely handling criminal offenders while providing offenders some opportunities for self- improvement and increasing the chance that they will become productive and law-abiding citizens. billion spent per year by states on corrections. U. s. supreme court upheld lower-court ruling mandating that within 2 years. California reduce its prison population to alleviate overcrowding: public safety realignment (psr) Reduce state"s prison population through normal attrition of existing population, releasing many nonviolent, non-serious, nonsexual offenders. Correctional facilities as organizations: factors contributing to corrections populations. Truth-in-sentencing laws: restriction or elimination of parole eligibility and good-time credits to ensure offenders serve larger portions of their sentence. General deterioration of morals and of the family.