Correctional System (U.S.) MCQ Questions Answers

1. The courts have ruled in favor of using reverse engineering to _____.

2. One opponent of the dmca is the ____.

3. A legal system is needed to serve all of the following purposes except _____.

4. _____ is agency personnel, the surrounding community, and the offender population.

5. Is prison Social Media online dialogue that consists of information regarding visitation, rules of the correctional facility, or sending necessities to loved ones in prison?

6. _____ is known as traditionally refers to assessment of the effects of the program on clients while they are in the program, making it possible to assess the institution’s intermediary goals.

7. _____ is defined as involves quantitative research aimed at assessing the impact of the program on long-term treatment outcomes.

8. _____ is the effect that the media has upon the public perception of prison or community supervision programs.

9. Is learning Organizations have the inherent ability to adapt and change, improving performance through continual revision of goals, objectives, policies, and procedures?

10. _____ is known as identifying problems and accomplishments during the early phases of program development for feedback to clinical and administrative staff.

11. _____ is defined as when inmates see themselves as special participants in an experiment.

12. _____ is a significant trend throughout all human services that emphasizes outcomes.

13. Is evaluative Transparency when an agency’s evaluative process allows an outside person to have full view of the agency’s operations, budgeting, policies, procedures, and outcomes?

14. _____ is known as comparing assessment and evaluation data to determine the effectiveness of programs and to find areas for improvement.

15. _____ is defined as the physical location for federal death row.

16. _____ is observes that prosecutors are overwhelmingly Caucasian and seek the death penalty disproportionately more often when the victim is also Caucasian.

17. Is federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 established constitutional procedures for imposition of the death penalty?

18. _____ is known as the states of mental illness that can develop over time as result of the death row phenomenon.

19. _____ is defined as the harmful effects of death row conditions that are experienced while waiting for one’s demise.

20. _____ is persons who have been sentenced to be executed but are awaiting their execution.

21. Is brutalization Hypothesis the contention that the use of harsh punishments sensitizes people to violence and teaches them to use it?

22. _____ is known as putting the offender to death.

23. _____ is defined as makes an independent recommendation to the attorney general regarding death penalty cases.

24. _____ is required inmate to provide clear and convincing evidence of a constitutional violation before granting a certificate of appeal.

25. Is anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 made the death penalty available as a possible punishment for certain drug-related offenses?

26. _____ is known as provided for the continued performance of the U.S. Parole Commission.

27. _____ is defined as a permit given to a convict in exchange for a certain period of good conduct.

28. _____ is postrelease supervision.

29. Is roadmap to Reentry identifies five evidence-based principles that guide efforts to improve correctional programs that are developed for those who will reenter society after being incarcerated?

30. _____ is known as when correctional systems use parole to reduce correctional populations.

31. _____ is defined as primarily tasked with the routine holding of preliminary parole revocation hearings by reviewing allegations made by parole officers against parolees.

32. _____ is extended the life of the Parole Commission until November 1, 2002, but only in regard to supervising offenders who were still on parole from previous years.

33. Is parole Commission and Reorganization Act established the U.S. Parole Commission as an independent agency within the Department of Justice?

34. _____ is known as the early release of an offender from a secure facility upon completion of a certain portion of his or her sentence.

35. _____ is defined as includes all activities and programming conducted to prepare ex-convicts to return safely to the community and to live as law-abiding citizens.

36. _____ is addresses needs for restitution, any particular arrangements that have been made with the victim, and provisions to ensure the offender’s responsibility to the community at large.

37. Is mark System a system where the duration of the sentence was determined by the inmate’s work habits and righteous conduct?

38. _____ is known as extended the life of the Parole Commission until November 1, 1997.

39. _____ is defined as works to aid the offender in making the transition from prison life to community supervision.

40. _____ is alexander Maconochie, so named due to his creation of the mark system, a precursor to modern-day parole.

41. Is english Penal Servitude Act established several rehabilitation programs for convicts?

42. _____ is known as created a U.S. Sentencing Commission to establish federal sentencing guidelines favoring determinate sentences.

43. _____ is defined as restricted the purchase of several types of weight lifting equipment within the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

44. _____ is claims that society is saved untold millions due to the lack of recidivism of inmates who have obtained employment and/or education.

45. Is work Against Recidivism (WAR) Program specifically targeted to successfully reintegrate offenders into society?

46. _____ is known as secondary education program in Texas prisons.

47. _____ is defined as an organization for federal prison labor.

48. _____ is permitted inmates to apply for financial aid in the form of Pell Grants to attend college.

49. Is therapeutic Recreation (TR) programs designed to meet the needs of individuals with a variety of disabilities, impairments, or illnesses by providing specific services?

50. _____ is known as the first inmate-operated prison newspaper in the world.

51. _____ is defined as provides offenders with marketable job skills to help reduce recidivism.

52. _____ is emphasizes the people, places, and things that inmates encounter that can affect relapse into drug use and criminal activity.

53. Is second Chance Pell Pilot Program this program, announced by the obama Administration and stewarded by the Department of Education, selected 67 colleges and universities who partnered with more than 100 Federal and state correctional institutions, enrolling approximately 12,000 incarcerated students in educational and training programs?

54. _____ is responsible for a number of duties, including surveying the recreational needs and interests of the offender population.

55. Is prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) Certification Program partnership between the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a private company that allows the company to employ offenders?

56. _____ is known as a food product that contains all the typical ingredients of a well-balanced meal mixed together and baked as a single loaf-like product that would be served to inmates.

57. _____ is defined as a study that demonstrated that UNICoR successfully prepared inmates for release and provided long-term benefits to society.

58. _____ is need-based federal monies set aside for persons who pursue a college education.

59. Is office of Correctional Education (OCE) created to provide national leadership on issues related to correctional education?

60. _____ is known as a Federal Bureau of Prisons program that promotes bonding and parenting skills for low-risk female inmates who are pregnant.

61. _____ is defined as contends that inmates are entitled to no more than the bare minimum that is required by law.

62. _____ is vision

63. Is health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guides professionals on matters regarding the confidentiality of medical information?

64. _____ is known as the process of earning the equivalent of your high school diploma.

65. _____ is defined as organization for federal prison labor.

66. _____ is a diet that meets all nutritional requirements and reasonably accommodates recognized religious dietary restrictions.

67. Is american Correctional Food Service Association (ACFSA) represents the correctional food service industry?

68. _____ is known as provides representation and networking for chaplains who work in correctional environments.

69. _____ is defined as the third level of administrator in state agencies; includes personnel who manage the individual prison facility.

70. _____ is ground-level planning that is narrow in focus and structured around the short-term resolution of particular issues.

71. Is system-Wide Administrators managers who are at the executive level and direct the entire system throughout the state?

72. _____ is known as A document that articulates agency goals and objectives and states how they might be realized.

73. _____ is defined as teams designed to respond to serious crises within a prison facility.

74. _____ is the extended impact that a supervisor has upon employee behavior.

75. Is span of Control refers to the number of persons that an officer supervises?

76. _____ is known as the active process of administrators to circumvent faulty information that is disseminated among staff or inmates and has the potential to cause unrest or disharmony throughout the facility.

77. _____ is defined as employees within a facility who tend to act as if they are independent of the broader institution.

78. _____ is managers who oversee a specific region of a state.

79. Is reactive Styles of Management when a supervisor waits until a problem develops and then responds to remedy the situation?

80. _____ is known as seek to anticipate and correct problems before they develop.

81. _____ is defined as an informal network of information passed through the personal communications of employees and inmates.

82. _____ is a form of management that includes opinions and feedback offered from both inmates and staff when making decisions regarding the operations and governance of the prison facility.

83. Is national Institute of Corrections (NIC) an agency within the Federal Bureau of Prisons that is headed by a director appointed by the U.S. attorney general?

84. _____ is known as persons with an official title who tend to be focused on the operational process within the prison facility.

85. _____ is defined as entails skills and talents that motivate and influence persons toward a common goal or idea.

86. _____ is a private company that owns and operates prisons in Louisiana and Texas.

87. Is holding Pattern Management where the system continues to operate but in a pattern of stasis where there is no true growth, nor is there a blockage in the systemic flow?

88. _____ is known as barriers to promotion that exist for women within the workforce.

89. _____ is defined as describes how adept a person is at noticing and responding to the emotional cues and information exhibited by others.

90. _____ is the intervention used, the management of that intervention, the containment of the emergency, and the successful resolution of the emergency.

91. Is emergency Preparedness the planning, training, and budgeting process involved prior to the occurrence of an emergency?

92. _____ is known as specialized teams trained to respond to, contain, and neutralize inmate disturbances in prisons.

93. _____ is defined as the authority and responsibility of management are distributed amongst the supervisory chain, allowing decisions to correspond to the problems confronted by each level of management.

94. _____ is tight forms of control in the communication process that ensure that decision-making power is reserved for only a small group of people.

95. Is bureaucratic Model a formal organizational system that is not dependent upon the specific personnel or personalities assigned within it?

96. _____ is known as features strict control over staff and inmates with communication that flows in a top-to-bottom process.

97. _____ is defined as deals with disturbances that have escalated to matters of life and death.

98. _____ is an industrial school.

99. Is psychological Abuse includes actions or the omission of actions that could cause a child to have serious behavioral, emotional, or mental impairments?

100. _____ is known as includes abandonment, the expulsion of a child from the home, a failure to provide medical care, supervision, food, clothing, and shelter.