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Prisons and Jails MCQ

Prisons and Jails MCQ

 

1. _____ is defined as criminal justice officials who are responsible for the security of the correctional institution and the safety of the inmates housed within its walls.

Answer

Correct Answer: Correctional Officers

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2. _____ is refers to acts of violence, drug use, rule violations, and security-related violations that can threaten the safety and security of a facility.

Answer

Correct Answer: Prison Misconduct

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3. Is overcrowding occurs when there are more individuals in prison than a facility is designed to house?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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4. _____ is known as occurs when inmates of color are overrepresented in the prison population when compared with their representation in society in general.

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Correct Answer: Racial Disproportionality

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5. _____ is defined as also known as criminogenic (crime-producing) needs, these are characteristics or situations involving the offender that can change, such as substance abuse addictions, educational level, or peer associations.

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Correct Answer: Dynamic Risk Factors

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6. _____ is characteristics about an offender that do not change, such as number of prior arrests, age at first arrest, or other criminal history variables.

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Correct Answer: Static Risk Factors

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7. Is maximum-Security Prison a prison that is designed to house serious and violent offenders. Inmate movement and autonomy is significantly restricted?

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Correct Answer: True

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8. _____ is known as a prison that is designed to house serious and violent offenders. Inmate movement and autonomy is significantly restricted.

Answer

Correct Answer: Maximum-Security Prison

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9. _____ is defined as a prison that has an increased level of security and less freedom of movement than a minimum-security prison.

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Correct Answer: Medium-Security Prison

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10. _____ is prisons that are designed to house individuals who are convicted of a crime while a member of the armed forces.

Answer

Correct Answer: Military Prisons

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11. Is private Prisons prisons that are used to house inmates when bed space is unavailable in state or federal facilities?

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Correct Answer: True

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12. _____ is known as prison facilities used to hold offenders convicted of federal crimes.

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Correct Answer: Federal Prisons

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13. _____ is defined as prisons used to hold offenders convicted of state criminal law violations

Answer

Correct Answer: State Prisons

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14. _____ is period between 1900 and 1940 when corporal punishment and prison labor were used to punish offenders.

Answer

Correct Answer: Punishment Era

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15. Is good Time Credits allow inmates to earn time off of their sentence for good behavior?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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16. _____ is known as the first facility founded during the reformatory era.

Answer

Correct Answer: Elmira Reformatory

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17. _____ is defined as emerged in 1876 in response to concerns that the penitentiary was unsuccessful.

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Correct Answer: Reformatory Era

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18. _____ is form of labor first used in the New York model that organized prison labor as a group process.

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Correct Answer: Congregate Labor Systems

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19. Is auburn Prison the first facility under the New York model?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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20. _____ is known as used the system of silence that was popular in the Pennsylvania system but adopted congregate labor systems.

Answer

Correct Answer: New York System

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21. _____ is defined as the first penitentiary designed within the Pennsylvania system model.

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Correct Answer: Eastern State Penitentiary

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22. _____ is an early model of prison that focused on solitary confinement, silence, and work in cells.

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Correct Answer: Pennsylvania System

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23. Is jail correctional facility that is used to hold people until their punishments are carried out. Also used to incarcerate misdemeanor offenders and may offer specialized programs?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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24. _____ is known as a facility that is designed to house individuals for a period of time as a form of punishment for breaking the law.

Answer

Correct Answer: Prison

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25. _____ is the chief administrator of a federal penitentiary or state prison.

Answer

Correct Answer: Warden

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26. Is supermax prison a penal institution that, for security purposes, affords inmates very few, if any, amenities and a great amount of isolation?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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27. _____ is known as a correctional facility that houses convicted felons.

Answer

Correct Answer: State prison

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28. _____ is defined as the operation of existing prison facilities, or the building and operation of new prisons, by for-profit companies.

Answer

Correct Answer: Privatization

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29. _____ is use of prison and jail inmates to produce goods or provide services for a public agency or private corporation.

Answer

Correct Answer: Prison industries

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30. Is prison a state or federal facility housing long-term offenders, typically felons, for a period greater than one year?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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31. _____ is known as a jail that, by its architecture and design, eliminates many of the traditional features of a jail, allowing staff members greater interaction and control.

Answer

Correct Answer: New generation/direct supervision jail

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32. _____ is defined as a term generally referring to what is perceived as the United States’s disproportionately high rates of imprisonment of young African American men; some believe it deters crime and incapacitates offenders, while others say that it weakens poor families and keeps them socially marginalized.

Answer

Correct Answer: Mass incarceration

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33. _____ is a facility that holds persons who have been arrested for crimes and are awaiting trial, persons who have been convicted for misdemeanors and are serving a sentence (up to a year in jail), federal offenders, and others.

Answer

Correct Answer: Jail

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34. Is classification (of inmates) An inmate security and treatment plan based on one’s security, social, vocational, psychological, and educational needs while incarcerated?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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35. _____ is known as An inmate security and treatment plan based on one’s security, social, vocational, psychological, and educational needs while incarcerated.

Answer

Correct Answer: Classification (of inmates)

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36. Prisons are most concerned with the security threat connected with inmates obtaining possession of which technology?

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Correct Answer: Cell phones

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37. Correctional staff must make classification decisions in at least two areas: the inmate’s level of physical restraint or security level.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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38. The prison classification category that takes into consideration the number and types of architectural barriers that must be placed between inmates and the outside world is known as ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Security

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39. Long-term holding facilities designed to house felony offenders sentenced to 1 year or more are known as ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Prisons

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40. A custodial organization emphasizes the caretaker functions of controlling and observing inmates.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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41. Low security prisons would reflect which of the following characteristics?

Answer

Correct Answer: Mostly dormitory or cubicle housing

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42. Supermax prisons would reflect which of the following characteristics?

Answer

Correct Answer: Isolation

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43. Some researchers argue that supermax facilities are less______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Effective at reducing violence within the general population

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44. Which correctional philosophy emphasizes the rehabilitation of inmates?

Answer

Correct Answer: Treatment

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45. In what year was the Federal Bureau of Prisons established?

Answer

Correct Answer: 1930

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46. What are the purposes of unit management?

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Correct Answer: Decentralize administration and enhance communication

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47. In 2011, an unemployed man named Richard Verone robbed a North Carolina bank for $1. He later admitted that he hoped for a 3-year prison sentence so that he could get free health care to deal with his multiple health issues. For Verone, incarceration represented which of the following?

Answer

Correct Answer: An increased standard of living

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48. Incarceration rates have risen slightly since 2008 due to sharp increases in violent and property crime rates.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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49. After two correctional officers were murdered by inmates in Marion Illinois in 1983, the prison went on “permanent lockdown” and became the first ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Supermax prison

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50. Inmates requiring a high security level are referred to as trusty.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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51. Prison gangs are primarily involved in the which of the following underground markets?

Answer

Correct Answer: Drugs

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52. Which of the following was identified as one of the preferred forms of punishment for much of history?

Answer

Correct Answer: Physical labor

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53. In which of the following cases did the Supreme Court hold that prisoners do have the right to due process in disciplinary hearings?

Answer

Correct Answer: Wolff v. McDonald

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54. Which of the following was identified as one of the top five greatest expenditures for correctional institutions?

Answer

Correct Answer: Medical care

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55. Most correctional facilities require more than a high school diploma for entry-level positions.

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Correct Answer: False

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56. Data shows that inmates who identified as bisexual and homosexual were more likely to be victimized than heterosexual inmates.

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Correct Answer: True

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57. It was once the prevailing legal philosophy that prisoners forfeited their constitutional rights as a consequence of their crimes.

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Correct Answer: True

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58. The management of jails and prisons composes a significant part of state and federal correctional budgets.

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Correct Answer: True

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59. Racial disproportionality exists when inmates of colors are underrepresented in the prison population, compared with their representation in society in general.

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Correct Answer: False

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60. The availability of funds in an inmate’s commissary account is considered a status symbol behind bars.

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Correct Answer: True

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