PART I: SHORT RESPONSE
1. List the four main reasons prisons are overcrowded.
2. Identify six methods of controlling prison overcrowding.
3. Identify five causes of prison riots.
4. Describe the emergence of supermax housing and its impact on prisoners and staff?
PART II: JOURNAL ACTIVITY
Submit responses to both topics.
Topic #1: Research the Attica prison riot of 1971. Then locate 1 article on the prisoners' law suit again the State of New York. What are your thoughts regarding the riot and the prisoners' law suit?
Topic #2: List three forms of control techniques that can be used to restrict the activities of prison gangs.