- What has been the major result of the "tough on crime" political mentality?
Your answer:
implementation of sentencing guidelines
mandatory sentencing
determinate sentencing to replace the use of parole boards
all of the above
- Which is not an inmate due process right in the area of prison disciplinary hearings?
Your answer:
the right of a jury trial
the right to have assistance when the circumstances of the case are complex or if the prisoner is illiterate
the right to receive advance written notice of the alleged infraction
the right to have sufficient time to prepare a defense
- When was the last public execution in the United States?
Your answer:
1968
1936
1902
1880
- This count is done at any time, freezing inmates wherever they are.
Your answer:
random count
census count
stand-up count
regular count
- Which recreation activity is the most controversial?
Your answer:
card games
weightlifting
soccer
calisthenics
- This team has the principle role of opening lines of communications between staff and hostage-takers.
Your answer:
SWAT team
disturbance control team
special emergency response team
hostage negotiation team
- Which is the key component of inmate accountability policies and procedures?
Your answer:
there is exactly one count per day of inmates
staff provide only direct inmate supervision
most inmates are assigned to unsupervised work
none of the above
- Which item best contributes to the maintenance of control in modern prisons?
Your answer:
a strict and arbitrary disciplinary system
little or no staff comunication with inmates
consistent operations according to policy
all of the above
- Which officers are usually assigned to some of the most sensitive and explosive areas of the prisons?
Your answer:
majors
captains
sergeants
lieutenants
- Where is a correctional officer most likely to work?
Your answer:
perimeter security
living units
industrial shop
all of the above
- In a chain of command, who might a correctional officer report to directly?
Your answer:
chief of security
security supervisor
warden
associate warden for security
- Most prisons have a military chain of command.
Your answer:
True
False
- Public attitudes are becoming more punitive about the most effective way to handle criminal offenders than in the past.
Your answer:
True
False
- Agencies do not use their accreditation as a defense in inmate lawsuits.
Your answer:
True
False
- Rural communities depend on the economic value of the jobs and purchases that result from a prison in their area.
Your answer:
True
False
- Correctional policy has become increasingly driven by politics over the past 15 years.
Your answer:
True
False
- The idea of charging offenders for services in not new, particularly for community corrections.
Your answer:
True
False
- Furman v. Georgia effectively constituted a ban on capital punishment in the United States.
Your answer:
True
False
- Inmates are not allowed to solicit other inmates to join an inmate union and have union meetings.
Your answer:
True
False
- Prisons are not legally required to provide sufficient legal materials to enable inmates to conduct legal research in order to have reasonable access to courts.
Your answer:
True
False
- The early North American colonies and England used capital punishment as a penalty only for murder.
Your answer:
True
False
- Inmates lose all their citizenship rights once they enter prison.
Your answer:
True
False
- Most inmates work in areas of prison operations that help run the prison.
Your answer:
True
False
- Prison staff are trained to monitor inmates only intermittently so as not to interfere with their privacy.
Your answer:
True
False
- In the past, wardens had many demands on them to be external managers because corrections was of great interest to elected officials, the courts, or the media.
Your answer:
True
False
- Is is fairly easy to gain compliance from prison inmates.
Your answer:
True
False
- Wardens cannot be the substantive experts on everything that goes on in the prison.
Your answer:
True
False
- Specific training in a trade area is _______________.
Your answer:
- The __________Amendment states that no cruel or unusual punishment may be inflicted.
Your answer:
- ______________are responsible for implementing affirmative action programs for a correctional agency.
Your answer:
- __________was developed as a means to enhance credibility and professionalism of correctional agencies.
Your answer:
- A program in which prison inmates are allowed to leave prison early to reside in a halfway house to prepare for community reentry is called_________________.
Your answer:
- A(n)_________________is a minimal charge for inmates to see a physician or receive medical care.
Your answer:
- _______________prohibits any person acting under the color of any statue, ordinance, or regulation from depriving another of his or her constitutional rights.
Your answer:
- The _________________prohibits any entity from discriminating against an individual with a disability in regards to employment, public services and transportation, public accommodations, and telecommunications services.
Your answer:
- ______________is any item that inmates are not allowed to possess.
Your answer:
- _______________is used to house inmates whose continued presence in the general population may pose a serious threat to the security or orderly running of the prison.
Your answer:
- Underlying factors that create tension and unrest among inmates are _________________.
Your answer:
- ________________is having a representative work force in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity.
Your answer:
- A culture based on the way prison leadership deals and communicates with subordinate staff and that has a continuum between autocratic and empowered is a(n)__________________.
Your answer: