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Questions:

1. Does the United States arrest and detain too many people? Should we build more jails to handle different populations such as those engaging in white-collar crime or individuals engaging in drug offenses who have not committed other crimes? What should these jails look like, and how should they be run?

2. Describe a model of jail supervision that has the potential to reduce violence, keeps correctional staff engaged, and is cost effective. You can use all of the supervision models or none of them.

3. What type of job and skills within the prison system translate into incarcerated individuals becoming productive members of society upon release?

4. Prison classification specialists develop a profile of each individual that includes their crime, criminal history, social background, psychological profile, education, job skills, work history, and health. Based on this information, the individual is assigned to the most appropriate custody classification and prison. Does this process create the problem of self-fulfilling prophecy in which incarcerated individuals considered a security threat become one because they are treated as such? Do the needs of the institutional safety outweigh the threat of stigmatizing incacerated individuals? Does an offender being classified into a particular group have an increased potential for victimization and further difficulty adjusting to prison life?

5. Between the deprivation and importation models, which do you think is more related to the violent atmosphere in prison? Do incarcerated individuals import their outside world and violent tendencies into the facility, which in turn creates violatility, or do they react to them deprivations of prison life with violence and aggression?