HLTHAGE 3Q03 Final: Exam review Chp 1-7

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 3Q03
• Professor: Brunothe Bear

Document Summary

Lecture 2: theoretical foundations, facts, and figures about the correctional system and the incarcerated. State and federal level security prisons (4 levels: super max, maximum, medium. Restricted lifestyles, 24hr confinement, restrained showers, no personal contact with anyone (alcatraz) Restricted but slight more freedom than supermax, serious offenders, many included a death row facility. More freedom to attend prison activities and engage with other inmates and non-inmate population; comprised of different levels of criminals. Greatest amount of freedom and contact with others. Other types of prison facilities: all-male and all-female prisons, juvenile and youth offender facilities, prison farms, prison hospitals, boot camps, reception centers, community corrections facilities Role of prison gaze and strict regimes of control. Being confined and contained with other offenders. Lack of access to life outside prison. Deprivation of needs (* maslow"s 1947 hierarchy of needs) Little protection for gender and sexual minorities.