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- privitization
- movement toward the wider use of private prisons
- jail
- confinement facitiy administered by an agency of local government, typically a law enforcement agency, intended for adults but sometimes also containing juveniles, which holds persons detained pending adjudication and/or persons committed after adjudciation
- operational capacity
- # of inmates a person can effectively accommodate based upon management considerations
- Justice Model
- cometmporary model of imprisonment in which the principle of just deserts forms the underlying social philosophy
- design capacity
- # of inmates a prison was architecturally intended to hold when it was built or modified
- private prisons
- correctional institutions operated by private firms on behalf of local and state governments
- direct supervision jails
- temporary confinement facitlities which eliminate many of the traditional barriers between inmates and correctional staff; physical barriers in direct supervision jails are far less common than in traditional jails, allowing staff members the opportunity for greater interaction with, and control over, residents
- rated capacity
- size of the inmate population a facility can handle according to the judgment of experts
- prison
- state or federal confinement facility havintg custodial authority over adults sentenced to varying terms of confinement
- ADMAX
- administrative masimum; term used by the federal government to denote ulra-high-security prisons
- regional jails
- jails that are built and run using the combined resources of a variety of local jurisdictions
- ex post facto
- latin for "after the fact"; Constitution prohibits the enactment of ex post facto laws, which make acts punishable as crimes which were committed before the laws in question were passed
- prison capacity
- general term referring to the size of the correctional population an institution can effectively hold; there are three types of prison capacity: design, rated and operational