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Jail and Detention Facilities MCQ

_____ is confinement that is restricted to the weekends or other times when the person in custody is off from work.

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Correct Answer: Weekend Confinement

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Is tower of London one of the earliest examples of a jail used for confinement purposes?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a facility that holds sentenced inmates for no more than 1 year.

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Correct Answer: Short-Term Jail

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_____ is defined as A short period of incarceration followed by a specified term of community supervision.

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Correct Answer: Shock Incarceration

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_____ is entry design that allows security staff to bring vehicles close to the admissions area in a secure fashion.

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Correct Answer: Sally Port

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Is rural Jail usually small jails in rural county jurisdictions that are often challenged by tight budgets and limited training for staff?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a California state policy designed to reduce the number of offenders in that state’s prison system to 110,000.

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Correct Answer: Public Safety Realignment (PSR)

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_____ is defined as includes rounded architecture for living units and allows for direct supervision of inmates by security staff.

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Correct Answer: Podular Jail

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_____ is programs usually interlaced with probation and parole agencies as a means of integrating the supervisory functions of both the jail and community supervision agencies.

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Correct Answer: Jail Reentry Programs

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Is jail a confinement facility, usually operated and controlled by county-level law enforcement, designed to hold persons who are awaiting adjudication or serving a short sentence of 1 year or less?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a term used in England during the Middle Ages that was synonymous with today’s jail.

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Correct Answer: Gaols

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_____ is defined as the use of medical drugs to ease the process of overcoming the physical symptoms of dependence.

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Correct Answer: Detoxification

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All of the following are accurate statements about modern jails except this.

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Correct Answer: There is a smaller female inmate population than in decades past.

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Shock incarceration is most compatible with which punishment philosophy?

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Correct Answer: Deterrence

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All of the following are accurate statements about jails except this.

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Correct Answer: Jails have the same array of programming opportunities as prisons.

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A podular jail includes rounded architecture for living units and allows for direct supervision of inmates by security staff.

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Correct Answer: True

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Multnomah County in Oregon developed what is now known as the ______, which is designed to release inmates early from the jail when the facility’s population exceeds the capacity of the structure.

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Correct Answer: Matrix system

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Which population of jail inmates typically require more health care?

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Correct Answer: Women and older inmates

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A small number of offenders are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime.

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Correct Answer: True

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What kind of jails are devised so that programming does not end when those offenders are released back into the community?

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Correct Answer: Community

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Crowding is not an issue in large jails.

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Correct Answer: False

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Which of the following is an accurate statement about jail employment?

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Correct Answer: Jail employees typically receive on-the-job training.

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Over the past 5 years, the jail population in the United States has dramatically increased.

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Correct Answer: False

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Which of the following is an issue in metropolitan jail inmate populations?

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Which of the following is an accurate statement about suicide rates in jails and prisons?

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Correct Answer: Jails have higher suicide rates than prisons.

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Which of the following is an accurate statement about the percentages of mentally ill inmates in jails and prisons?

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Correct Answer: Jails have higher percentages of mentally ill inmates than prisons.

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In early jails in the United States, inmates were required to supply their own amenities.

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Correct Answer: True

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