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Criminal Justice Assignment 6 2.14.18 1. What are the purposes of inmate classification? A. The purposes of inmate classification are to assess an offender’s security risk and determining which program services the offender needs. Assessment information is used in deciding to which institution in the jurisdiction an offender will go to begin his or her term and which problems the offender must address while imprisoned. A variety of other factors influence those decisions, including the nature of offense, the offender’s prior record, propensity toward violence and escape, and vulnerability to victimization by other inmates; levels of crowding and programs offered at those institutions. The idea is to place inmates in facilities that can accommodate their risk and needs profiles. This process will occur periodically throughout and inmate’s sentence. Inmates are routinely monitored and reclassified to preserve institutional security and for purposes of transfer, programing, and release decisions. 2. What are some of the reasons for high rates of prison violence? A. Improper management and classification practices by staff, high levels of crowding and competition over resources, the young age of most of inmates in many prisons, and increases in racial tensions and prison gang activity. 3. What is the sub-rosa economy? Give three examples in which inmates utilize this economy. A. It’s the secret or underground economy of an institution. It consists of an exchange of goods and services, although often illicit, are high in demand among inmates. Inmates use this economy to obtain such things as food, drugs, sex, alcohol, pornography, weapons, loan services, protection, among other things. 4. The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. Cooper v. Pate extended that freedom to unconventional religious practices. The court did, however, allow restrictions. Under what circumstances can the prison system restrict religious freedom? A. When prison officials can demonstrate convincingly that religious practices compromise security or are unreasonably expensive. This privilege can be denied on the grounds that they will cause other groups to make similar demands. Generally, the reasons given for restricting religious freedom must be compelling, and the restrictions imposed must be no more limiting than necessary....