1. We identified a number of significant issues related to women in prison, identify one those key issues :
Tell me what you would do to resolve the issue that you have identified, and why you would take that course of action :
2. We do not fill our prisons with numbers we fill them with people, based on what you have learned this semester, describe what you think is the significance of that statement :
3. We discussed the pros and cons of educational opportunities and treatment programs in prisons. One of the negative elements of these programs, in the eyes of some people, is the cost of these programs to the taxpayers. If you were a Corrections/Prison Administrator how would you respond to this criticism of prison programming :
4. If you build it they will come”, we continue to build more prisons and we continue to fill the beds of those prisons. Based on the things you learned this semester, as well as your own personal views of this problem; tell me what you see as a possible solution or approach to slowing or reversing this troubling trend:
5. In our discussions of the transition from prison and its structure to the freedom that parole offers we discussed the importance of a “seamless system”,describe what a seamless system is, and the tell me why it is important to have a system like this:
6. In our lengthy discussion of the current “War on Drugs”, we discussed how the efforts to slow the flow of drugs will continue unless there is a paradigm shift in how Americans view drug offenders. Explain what that shift must be if we are to make some inroads to eliminating the drug problem in this country:
7. We discussed the danger of not changing our approach to dealing with women in prison. What shifts do society, prison administrators and politicians need to make in their approach to dealing with the growing number of women coming in to the prisons and jails of this country:
8. What are some of the possible problems we will face as a society if we fail to change our approach to the growing number of women in prison:
9. We outlined some of the parts and principles of what is referred to as the “Re-entry Initiative”, tell me what the Re-Entry Initiative is, and in basic terms what it is designed or intended to do :
10. There is no one solution that fixes all of the problems within our prisons, but until we as a society recognize that prisons, and the people we fill those prisons with, are our problem and that all of us have a stake in finding lasting solutions, those problems will continue and will only get worse!” You are a prison administrator orpolitical figure who has just made this statement. Explain and defend your statement:
