“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted” is from the _____ Amendment.

A _____ is an extremely secure type of prison that strictly limits inmate contact with other inmates, correctional staff, and the outside world.

Due process and equal protection are the two clauses of the ______ Amendment that particularly apply to inmates' rights.

______ prison recalls the separate-and-silent systems in the Pennsylvania and Auburn prisons.

_____ are correctional officers responsible for the security of a prison’s housing block.

_____ defined the processes required for prison disciplinary proceedings.

According to the courts’ hands-off doctrine, decisions about prisons were considered a matter for the _____ branch, not the judicial. 

The first modern _____ prisons opened in the early 1980s.

A _____ is a secure facility that typically holds arrestees, criminal suspects, and inmates serving sentences less than a year.

The ______ is considered the oldest prison gang.

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