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?