Discussion:
1. Discuss inmate riots and disturbances. Include factors that cause them and response team roles and goals. How can prisons try to prepare for these types of events? What preventive actions can prison administrators take to reduce inmate unrest and lessen chances of a precipitating event starting a riot?
Your response should be at least 400 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, shouldbe referenced; paraphrased and quoted material shouldhave accompanying citations.
2. Discuss prison gang development and characteristics of gang members. What strategies are being used in an attempt to control gangs in prison? Do you think these strategies are effective? Why, or why not?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, shouldbe referenced; paraphrased and quoted material shouldhave accompanying citations.
3. What Supreme Court decisions limited the number of lawsuits that could be filed by inmates? List and explain three legislative acts that helped to reduce inmate lawsuits and how they accomplished this.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, shouldbe referenced; paraphrased and quoted material shouldhave accompanying citations.
4. Discuss due process as it relates to inmate discipline. What steps are required for prisoner due process when an inmate is faced with a disciplinary action? Which amendment guides due process for inmate disciplinary processes? How did Sandin v. Connor affect due process for inmates?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, shouldbe referenced; paraphrased and quoted material shouldhave accompanying citations.
5. Why is staff diversity important in correctional facilities? What are the advantages of having a diverse staff and the disadvantages of not having one? Describe a historical event that occurred due to having a non-diverse prison staff.
Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, shouldbe referenced; paraphrased and quoted material shouldhave accompanying citations.
6. Explain the balancing test, totality-of-conditions test, and deliberate indifference as they apply to prison inmates and administrators. What court cases were involved in their development, and what was the focus of each of those cases?
Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, shouldbe referenced; paraphrased and quoted material shouldhave accompanying citations.