1. _______ refers to a temporary housing assignment for inmates who need protection or present a security risk.
a. Administrative detention
b. Special housing unit
c. Correctional diversion
d. Disciplinary segregation
2. _______ is a method of ensuring compliance with prison policies.
a. A corrections audit
b. Quality assurance
c. A policy implementation audit
d. A compliance audit
3. Organizing a prison into smaller components by decentralizing authority, in order to manage the inmate population and make staff more accessible to inmates, is known as _______.
a. unit management
b. cottage organization
c. subdivisioning
d. decentralization
4. Who is responsible for overseeing the design and construction of new and renovated prison facilities?
a. Field operations division
b. Community supervision division
c. Administration division
d. Inspector
5. To reduce the difference in terms of education between criminal offenders and their law-abiding peers, the Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to implement the _______ program in every prison.
a. vocational training
b. mandatory prison education
c. GED program
d. mandatory literacy program
6. How do custody and treatment of prisoners relate to the mission of a correctional institution?
a. They are the two key emphases in the mission of prisons.
b. They are not conducive to rehabilitation.
c. They complement each other in the prison's goals.
d. They compete with each other in the prison's goals.
7. Which of the following conditions serve as one of the keys to the mission of successfully providing mental health treatment to inmates?
a. Funds raised by the Director of the Department of Rehabilitation and corrections
b. Establishment of state-use systems
c. Providing proper educational facilities within the prison
d. Positive partnership between the state and local correctional agencies
8. Which of the following factors reduce recidivism?
a. Mandatory prison education
b. Vocational training
c. Disturbance control team
d. Continuum of care
9. The Post-Release Employment Project indicates _______.
a. significant effects on both in-prison and post-prison outcome measures
b. insignificant effects on both in-prison and post-prison outcome measures
c. no difference in outcome measures
d. a need for a more reliable method of assessing data
10. What is referred to by the term "religious programs" that are offered in modern prisons today?
a. Programs similar to those that were offered in the Walnut Street Jail
b. Controversial religious reformation programs facing much opposition
c. Programs that serve as important rehabilitative opportunities within the prison
d. Spirituality programs that are not separated by the different sects and worship groups
11. The gang validation process _______.
a. identifies the inmate's gang affiliation
b. determines an inmate's level of gang involvement
c. determines the level of fitness and health of the prisoner willing to join a gang
d. is an initiation process used by gangs
12. According to Goffman, "total institution" _______.
a. is the isolation of inmates from the rest of the society
b. is the unnecessary manipulation of isolated inmates by prison staff
c. results in the inmate's inability to act for oneself
d. leads to violence among the inmates
13. Hassine suggests that prison violence is _______.
a. an extension of the inmates' behavior outside the prison
b. an avoidance of dealing with the reality of being incarcerated
c. the only way inmates can deal with certain situations
d. the only way inmates can prove their superiority over other inmates
14. Many of the prison gangs were started _______.
a. as a way to fight back against stronger inmates
b. as a retaliation against the prison staff
c. as an extension of street gangs
d. as a control to drug deals in prison
15. The highly structured, standardized, and supervised environment within prisons can make it difficult for inmates to _______.
a. understand the culture
b. adapt to life outside prison
c. isolate themselves
d. follow the rules
16. What effect does conjugal visitation have on inmates?
a. It increases the number of in-prison rapes.
b. It releases the sexual tension of the inmates.
c. It acts a channel for drug trafficking in the prison.
d. It causes depression in the inmates.
17. Which of the following theories of inmate culture includes the three types of offenders—convicts, thieves, and square johns—as the main factors behind the creation of the prison subculture?
a. Enforced prison culture
b. Imported prison culture
c. Indigenous prison culture
d. Conditional prison culture
18. Which of the following measures need to be taken by the prison staff to reduce sexual assault in prisons?
a. Advise inmates to report incidents of sexual assault to the prison staff.
b. Form a separate department to look into cases of sexual assault.
c. Place suspects of sexual assault in different cells.
d. Prohibit the formation of prison gangs.
19. Which of the following efforts should be taken by the prison staff as an effort to reduce drug trafficking in prisons?
a. Formation of groups within the prison should be prohibited.
b. All visitors should be strip-searched before going into the prison.
c. Random drug testing should be conducted in all federal and state facilities.
d. Suspects should be confined in separate cells.
20. The first women's prison facility was opened _______.
a. at the same time as the opening of the first men's prisons
b. 50 years after the opening of men's prisons
c. 75 years after the invention of prisons in America
d. 100 years after the opening of the first men's prison
