RIOT!

1. RIOT! • Structured activities are required • How the riot spread • That is punishment?

2. Lockdown • In prison, everyone is punished for a riot, but most are innocent • Learning behavior through • Other things that could be taken away:

3. Factors that contribute to violence • Hierarchy of power • Staff styles • Cost control • Staff not doing their jobs • Inmate resources

4. Factors that contribute to violence • Physical design • Overcrowding • Prisoner • Drugs • Racism

5. Factors that contribute to violence • Gangs • Prisoner-on-Prisoner theft • Lack of consistence or stability for the inmates • “The Pains of Imprisonment”

6. Women in Prison • Constitute 6.6% of entire US prison population • Prisons are smaller, with looser security and less structured relationships • Underground economy less well-developed • Less committed to inmate code • Many women’s prisons have outward appearance of a college campus • Women are less likely to be sentenced for violent offenses and they receive shorter sentences than men • Typically young, minority group members, unmarried, and undereducated

7. Characteristics of Female Inmates in State Prisons

8. Women in Prison • Female prisoners tend to form pseudo-families • Female prisons less violent, less involved in gang activity, and less racial tension • Higher levels of mistrust among women • Males stress autonomy, self-sufficiency, and ability to cope with one’s own problems • Differences between male and female subcultures ascribed to nurturing, maternal qualities of women

9. Women in Prison • Sexual misconduct • States have enacted statutes prohibiting sexual misconduct with correctional clients • Educational and vocational training • Gender stereotypes shape vocational programs • Medical services • Lack proper medical services, but women tend to have more serious health problems • Mothers and their children • Over 65% of female inmates have children