Identify and discuss the three different modern security-level facility designs for prisons.

What will be an ideal response?


Minimum-security facilities and/or open institutions are typically designed to serve the needs of farming areas or public transportation works rather than being optimized for the offender’s reform. Inmates may often work on community projects, such as roadside litter cleanup with the state department of transportation or wilderness conservation. Many minimum-security facilities are small camps located in or near military bases, larger prisons (outside the security perimeter), or other government institutions to provide a convenient supply of convict labor to the institution. Medium-security facilities may consist of dormitories that have bunk beds with lockers for inmates to store their possessions. These facilities tend to have communal showers, toilets, and sinks. Dormitories are locked at night with one or more security officers holding watch and conducting routine patrols. Inside the dorm, supervision over the internal movements of inmates is minimal. The perimeter of these facilities, when not connected to another larger facility, is generally double fenced and regularly patrolled by armed security personnel. Maximum-security prisonsuse corrugated chain-link fence. These fences will be lit by floodlights at night and may even have electric shock features for those who touch them.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Rick is arrested for vandalism and motor vehicle theft after vandalizing several cars in a dealership and then stealing one of the cars. Which crime(s) would be counted in the NIBRS?

a. vandalism b. motor vehicle theft c. neither crime d. both crimes

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Probable cause can be established in ________ways

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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