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| Legislation passed by congress in 1935 and amended in 1940 that prohibited interstate transportation of prison goods |
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| a highly regimented correctional facility where inmates undergo extensive physical conditioning and discipline |
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| A facility a t the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba that is used for the confinement of suspected terrorists |
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| An Instituation where men and women are confide together |
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| Programs, services, and institutions designed to manage people accused or convicted of crimes. |
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| a nineteenth-century model that held prisoners in isolation during the night, allowing them to work together during the day in silence; it was implemented at New York's Auburn Prison |
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| Legislation passed by congress in 1929 requiring that prison produces be subject to the laws of the state to which they were shipped |
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| An Institution to hold pretrial detainees and people convicted of less serious crimes |
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| System by which prisoners earned 'marks' for good behavior to achieve an early release from prison |
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| A treatment approach popular between 1930 and 1960 that attributed criminality to a biological or psychological defect of the offender |
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| An eighteenth-century place of penitence for all convicted felons except those sentenced to death. |
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| Law that allowed states to sell prison made goods across state lines as long as they complied with strict rules to make sure unions were consulted and to prevent manufactures from undercutting existing wage structures |
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| an Institution for the confinement of people who have been convicted of serious crimes |
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| a penal institution generally used to confine first-time offenders between the ages of 16 and 30 |
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| a nineteenth-century model of prison that separated inmates; it was was implemented in Pennsylvania Western and Eastern penitentiaries. |
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| a private visit that some prison system allow betwen inmates and their spouse to help them maintain sexual and interpersonal relationships |
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| An institution that operates between the medium and minimum security levels |
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| The most secure prison faciltiy, having high walls, gun towers, and barbed wire or electronic fences |
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| A middle-level prison facilty, which has more relaxed security measures and feweer inmates than a maxium-security prison |
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| A prison facilty with the lowest level of security that houses nondangerous stable offenders |
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| Jails that are designed to increase staff interaction with inmates by placing the staff |
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