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Part A:

Question 1: You are the warden of a correctional facility that has extremely high rates of violence among racial and ethnic groups. What will your strategy be for diffusing the racial and ethnic tension?

Question 2: What causes prison riots and inmate violence? What can a prison administrator do to reduce violence?

Question 3: Is it possible to communicate and to develop a relationship with prison gang members? What would be the purpose of such a relationship?

Question 4: Why do you think there is so much contraband in prison? What can be done to restrict its availability?

Part B:

Question 1: Why do you think that women are involved in more drug-related crimes now than in the past?

Question 2: The typical female offender has children. How does motherhood affect her doing time?

Question 3: "Women's inmate society establishes a substitute group in which women can identify or construct family patterns similar to those in the free world." Describe the family structure in a women's prison.

Question 4: How do the subcultures of men's and women's prisons differ?

Question 5: Do you support a separate but equal women's criminal justice system? Why or why not?

Part C:

Question 1: Summarize the most important cases establishing the hands-off doctrine.

Question 2: Why is the right to due process so difficult to disentangle from institutional priorities?

Question 3: What led to the hands-off doctrine of the courts?

Question 4: Why has the implementation of prisoners' rights been so difficult for the courts?