Correctional Systems and Practices
Examination 2
Review Questions (Fall 2004)
This examination has 20 multiple choice questions, two essay questions and one
bonus question. You will need a Scantron Essay Sheet. You will have 50 minutes
to complete this examination.
1. Read Chapters 6, 9, 10 & 11 in the text - this examination will cover those
four chapters. Chapter 12 is not included in this examination.
2. Go over all the notes you’ve taken (or should have taken!) in class from
the slides shown that accompanied the class discussions.
3. Learn the following information:
- the difference between and uses of jails and prisons;
- laws that created jails and prisons, particularly the Assize of Clarendon
and the Texas Constitution of 1845;
- the primary means of funding the original county jails in Texas;
- where the first penitentiaries were located, especially in the United
States;
- who are locked up in jails and prisons;
- the problems facing prison administrators, including (but not limited
to) health care, legal services, overcrowding, sexual assaults, gangs, violence,
and solutions that have been offered to reduce or eliminate these problems;
- the organization of the federal and Texas prison systems;
- the concept of inmate classification;
- the importance of jails to the modern correctional system;
- the basis for and effects of the outcome of Ruiz v. Estelle;
- classifications of prison units (supermax, max, medium, etc);
- approximate costs of running prison systems as discussed in class;
- the question of cruelty in prison systems;
- causes of overcrowding in the federal system according to the text;
- histories of the Texas and federal prison systems;
- education and training in the federal prison system.
4. Learning all this information will facilitate your making an excellent grade
on this examination. Should you ignore this review, you may not do well on this
exam!