Cjs/230 Appendix a

Associate Level Material

Appendix A

Prisoners Worksheet

Complete the worksheet by writing short responses to the questions in each row.

|How would you differentiate male and female |The one thing that male and female prisoners have in common is the fact that they both|

|prisoner backgrounds? Is there a better |are in prison. However, they are housed in separate facilities. Women tend to be more |

|solution to prisoner background |emotional and look to each other for support (sort of like a family). They are into |

|classification? Explain. |self-mutilation due to the stress of being locked up (Foster, 2006). Whereas, men band|

| |together in the form of a gang for protection. They act out in a violent manner in an |

| |effort to look tough. They try not to show emotion because it is a sign of weakness. |

| |Women suffer from intense personal issues and are more open to rehabilitation (Foster,|

| |2006). Drugs, violence, and hostility are a huge problem in a male prison. I think |

| |that a prisoner’s background classification should be assessed at least twice a year. |

| |Education and rehabilitation programs may cause a change in his/her background. |

|How do state and federal prisoners differ? |Inmates who serve federal time do so because they violated a federal law of some sort.|

|What issues affect state versus federal |Inmates who serve time in a state prison do so because they violated a state law of |

|prisoners? |some sort (Foster, 2006). Inmates usually serve eighty-five percent of federal time, |

| |while state time is served at fifty percent. Federal...