CRIM 131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Argot, Security Interest, Subculture
16 Oct 2020
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Pennsylvania model (for prisons): a separate and silent system in which prisoners were completely isolated from one another, eating, working, and sleeping in separate cells. Auburn model (for prisons): a system that allowed prisoners to work and eat together during the day and housed in individual cells at night. Moral architecture: the term used to describe the design of the first penitentiary in canada, the intent of which was to reflect themes of order and mortality. Brown commission: an investigation into the operation of the kingston penitentiary that condemned the use of corporal punishment against inmates and emphasized the need for rehabilitation. Minimum-security institutions: federal correctional facilities that generally have no perimeter fencing and allow unrestricted inmate movement except at night. Medium-security institutions: federal correctional facilities that have a less highly controlled institutional environment than maximum-security institutions and in which the inmates have more freedom of movement. Maximum-security institutions: federal correctional facilities with a highly controlled institutional environment.
