| classification | The process through which the educational, vocational, treatment, and custodial needs of the offender are determined.
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| conjugal visitation | The practice of permitting inmate and spouse to spend time together in private quarters on prison grounds, during which time they may engage in sexual relations.
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| inmate code | The unwritten rules of the prison subculture, which, if violated, can result in sanctions ranging from ostracism to death.
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| inside cells | Cells constructed back to back, with corridors running along the outside shell of the cell house.
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| maximum-security prisons | Correctional institutions designed to hold the most aggressive and incorrigible offenders.
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| open institutions | "Prisons without walls," such as correctional camps, farms, and ranches.
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| prisonization | The socializing process by which the inmate learns the rules and regulations of the institution and the informal rules, values, customs, and general culture of the penitentiary.
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| reception center | A central receiving institution where all felony offenders sentenced to a term of imprisonment are committed for orientation and classification.
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| shock incarceration | A 3- to 6-month regimen of military drill, drug treatment, physical exercise, hard labor, and academic work in return for having several years removed from an inmate's sentence.
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| supermax prisons | Highly restrictive, high-custody housing units within a secure facility (or an entire secure facility) that isolate inmates from the general prison population and from each other due to especially serious crimes, violent institutional behavior, the threat of (or actual) escape, or inciting prison disturbances.
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| total institutions | Places that furnish barriers to social interchange with the world at large.
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