correctional administration q & a

CORRECTION

IMPORTANT REMINDERS:

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A. Institutional Correction

Q What branch of the administration of criminal justice charge with the responsibility for the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of convicted offender?Answer: Corrections

Q Refers to the manner or practice of managing or controlling places of confinement as in jails or prisons.Answer: Penal Management

Q This is the study of jail/prison management and administration as well as rehabilitation and reformation of prisoners.Answer: Penology

Q What school maintains the “doctrine of psychological hedonism” or “free will” that individual calculates pleasures and pains in advance of action and regulates his conduct by the result of his calculations?Answer: The Classical School

Q This school that denied individual responsibility and reflected non-punitive reactions to crime and criminality.Answer: Positivist/Italian School

Q What is the oldest code prescribing savage punishment?Answer: Hammurabi’s code

Q What code specified punishment according to the social class of offenders, dividing them into: nobles, middle class and lower class and specifying the value of the life of each person according to social status?

Answer: Burgundian Code (500 A.D)

Q What is the oldest, extensive and severe law that prescribes harsh punishment in the Philippines?Answer: Code of Kalantiaw (promulgated in 1433)

Q What are the three evolutions in the history of Correction?Answer:

1 AGE OF REFORMATION- Replaced corporal and physical punishment.

2 AGE OF REHABILITATION- Individual should undergo therapy in healing this personal maladjustment.

3 AGE OF REINTEGRATION- Society and the offender should be considered the patient.

Q Originally constructed as a detention jail in Philadelphia. It was converted into a state prison and became the first American Penitentiary.Answer: Walnut Street Jail

Q Considered as the forerunner of modern penology, located in Elmira, New York, in 1876. It features a training school type of institutional program, social case work and extensive use of parole. It had all the elements of a modern correctional system among which were a training school type, education and extensive use of parole based on the indeterminate sentence.Answer: Elmira Reformatory

Q The Director of the Elmira Reformatory in New York (1876) who introduced certain innovational programs like the following: training school type, compulsory education of prisoners, casework methods, extensive use of parole, indeterminate sentence.Answer: Zebulon Brockway

Q What prison system called the “Congregate System”, the prisoners are confined in their own cells during the night and congregate work in shops during the day. Complete silence was enforced?Answer: Auburn Prison System

Q What was the period of major development of correction with the almost emergence of parole and probation?Answer: 19th century

Q What prison institution was opened in 1934 and was closed on March 21, 1963? It was closed primarily because it was too costly; an operation estimated were the repairs alone would run between $4.5 and $ 5 million. In 1940, it had a per capita cost

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of over twice of average of all federal institutions when it closed, it has 260-inmates.Answer: Alcatras Prison

Q This is the redress that the state takes against an offending member of society that usually involves pain and suffering. It is also the penalty imposed on an offender for a crime or wrongdoing.Answer: Punishment

Q This ancient form of punishment is putting the offender into shame or humiliation

Answer: Social Degradation

Q The sending or putting away of an offender which was carried out either by prohibition against coming into a specified territory such as an island to where the offender has been removed. Answer: Banishment or Exile

Q If a convict is placed inside one cell alone and without anybody to talk to or be seen with, he is detained in:Answer: Solitary confinement

Q Punishment gives lesson to the offender by showing to others what would happen to them if they violate the law. Punishment is imposed to warn potential offenders that they cannot afford to do what the offender has done. This justification of punishment is referred to as:Answer: Deterrence

Q It is the establishment of the usefulness and responsibility of the offender. Society’s interest can be better served by helping the prisoner to become law abiding citizen and productive upon his return to the community by requiring him to undergo intensive program of rehabilitation in prison. This justification of punishment is referred to as:Answer: Reformation or Rehabilitation

Q This is defined as the suffering inflicted by the state against an offending member for the transgression of lawAnswer: Penalty

Q Punishment must be personal, this means..Answer: the guilty one must be the one to be punished, no proxy

Q What agency under the Department of Justice tasked to effectively segregate and rehabilitate national prisoners?


Answer: The Bureau of Corrections

Q A place for locking-up persons who are convicted of minor offenses or felonies who are to serve a short sentences impose upon them by the competent court, or for confinement of persons who are awaiting trial or investigation of their cases.Answer: Jail

Q A security facility, common to police stations, used for temporary confinement of an individual held for investigation.Answer: Lock-up Jails

Q What facility houses minimum custody offenders who are serving short sentences or those who are undergoing constructive work programs? It provides full employment of prisoners, remedial services and Constructive leisure time activities.Answer: Workhouses, Jail Farms or Camp

Q What jail are managed and controlled by the provincial government?Answer: Provincial Jails

Q What bureau exercises supervision and control over all districts, city and municipal jails to ensure a secured, clean, sanitary and adequately equipped jail for the custody and safekeeping of city and municipal prisoners?Answer: Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP)

Q This is organized under the office of the warden to gathers, collates and submits intelligence information to the office of the Warden on matter regarding the jail condition. Answer: Intelligence and investigation Team

Q This is organized under the office of the warden to inspect jail facilities, personnel, and prisoners, afterwards, submit reports to the warden.Answer: Jail Inspectorate Section

Q This is organized under the office of the warden to maintain public relation to obtain the necessary and adequate public support.Answer: Public Relation Office

Q What office undertakes the development of a systematic process of treatment of criminal offenders?Answer: Office of the Assistant Warden

Q Who is the Chairman of the Classification Board and Disciplinary Board of a jail institution?Answer: Assistant Warden


Q Who will conduct religious ministry inside the jail institution?Answer: Chaplain

Q What are the Administrative Functions of the Chaplain?

Answer: Member of the RDC staff; Member of the Classification Committee; and, Render evaluation to the BPP.

Q This is the only program that is conducted during free time schedule of prisoners.Answer: Recreational Programs

Q This is an early form of prison discipline by giving the prisoner with food that is “off” diet, or requiring the prisoners to perform drab or boring daily routine.Answer: Monotony

Q Take charge of the safekeeping of equipments and supplies and materials needed for the operation of the jail. Answer: Property and Supply Branch

Q Responsible for the maintenance and repair of jail facilities and equipments. It is also task with the cleanliness and beautification of the jail compound. Answer: General Service Branch

Q Take charge of the preparation of the daily menu, prepares and cook the food and serve it to inmates. Answer: Mess Service Branch

Q Take charge of all financial matters such as budgeting, financing, accounting, and auditing. Answer: Budget and Finance Branch

Q Tasked to receive court decisions and compute the date of the full completion of the service of sentence imposed therein or for detention. Answer: Mittimus Computing Branch

Q This is the cornerstone of rehabilitation. It is the process or result of formal training in school or classrooms intended to shape the mind and attitude of prisoners towards good living upon their release.Answer: Prison Education

Q These are programs conducive to change behavior in morale by training prisoners for a useful education. It is purposely to eliminate idleness on the part of prisoners, which may


contribute to “Prison stupor”, and it affects the incidence of Prison riot.Answer: Work Programs

Q The purpose of this program is to change the attitudes of inmates by inculcating religious values or belief.Answer: Religious Services in Prison

Q What type of work does a female prisoner shall be assigned?Answer: on jobs suitable to their age, sex and physical conditions.

Q Who may be excused from hard work in prison?Answer: Prisoners over 60 years of age

Q Why a person committed to jail/prison by a competent court or authority? Answer: (1) to serve a sentence after conviction, (2) Trial, and (3) Investigation.

Q What is refers to a person who is under the custody of lawful authority?Answer: prisoner (prisoners are the old name, today they called it “inmates”)

Q What is the general classification of prisoner who detained for investigation, preliminary hearing, or awaiting trial? Answer: Detention Prisoner

Q Offenders who are committed to the jail or prison in order to serve their sentence after final conviction by any competent court is referred to as:Answer: Sentenced Prisoners

Q What is refers to a non-criminal offender who is detained in order to protect the community against his harmful behavior? Ex. Mentally deranged individuals, insane person.Answer: Prisoners who are on Safekeeping

Q What is the classification of sentenced prisoner who sentenced to suffer a term of sentence of 3 years and 1 day to life imprisonment? Answer: Insular or National Prisoners

Q What is the classification of sentenced prisoner who sentenced to suffer a term of imprisonment from 6 months and 1 day to 3 years a fine not more than 1,000 pesos, or both; or those detained therein waiting for preliminary investigation of their cases cognizable by the RTC?Answer: Provincial Prisoners


Q What is the classification of sentenced prisoner who sentenced to suffer a term imprisonment from 1 day to 3 years or a fine of not mere than 1,000 pesos or both. Those detained therein whose cases filed with the MTC?Answer: City Prisoner

Q What is the classification of sentenced prisoner who confined in Municipal jails to serve an imprisonment from 1 day to 6 months or those detained therein whose trials of their cases are pending with the MTC. Answer: Municipal Prisoners

Q The group of prisoners whose movements are restricted and they are not allowed to work outside the institution but rather assigned to industrial shops within the prison compound.Answer: Maximum Security Prisoners

Q Those who cannot be trusted in open conditions and pose lesser danger than maximum-security prisoners in case they escape.Answer: Medium Security Prisoners

Q It consists of groups of prisoners who may be allowed to work outside the fence or walls of the penal institution under guards or with escorts.Answer: Medium Security Prisoners

Q They occupy the Medium Security Prison (Camp Sampaguita) and they wear blue color of uniforms.Answer: Medium Security Prisoners

Q Generally, these prisoners are employed as agricultural workers. It includes prisoners whose minimum sentence is less than 20 years or life-sentenced prisoners who served at least 10 years inside a maximum-security prison.Answer: Medium Security Prisoners

Q A group of prisoners who can be reasonably trusted to serve sentence under “open conditions”. This group includes prisoners who can be trusted to report to their work assignments without the presence of guards. They occupy the Minimum Security Prison (Camp Bukang Liwayway) and wear brown color uniforms.Answer: Minimum Security Prisoners

Q How a criminal offender is committed in jail or prison?Answer: (1) By virtue of a commitment order issued by the court which may either be in the forms of a detention or standard mittimus, (2) By order of a competent authority, and (3) By an arresting officer.


Q This is an administrative device of correctional institutions of providing varied and flexible types of physical plants for the more effective central control of the treatment programs of its diversified population.Answer: Diversification

Q What are the factors considered in diversification?Answer: (1) age, (2) sex, (3) medical or mental condition, and (4) degree of custody

Q A method by which diagnostic treatment, planning and execution of treatment program are coordinated in the individual case. Answer: Classification

Q It is a process of determining the needs and requirements of those for whom correction has been ordered and for assigning them to programs according to their needs and existing resources.Answer: Classification

Q What is the END-PURPOSE of classification?Answer: to develop integrated and realistic program for prison life where rehabilitation program of the prisoner is carried out.

Q This is a procedure of classification wherein the prisoner’s case history is taken and his personality studied. Through examination and observations, the RDC’s staff determines the nature and extent of the person’s criminality and the extent to which he may be rehabilitated.Answer: Diagnosis

Q This is a procedure of classification wherein there is a formulation of a tentative treatment program best suited to the needs and interest of an individual prisoner, based on the findings of the RDC’s staff. Answer: treatment planning

Q This is in the application of the treatment program and policies by the classification committee. Answer: execution of treatment program

Q The treatment program is kept current with the inmates changing needs and with new analysis, based on any information not available at the time of the initial classification committee meeting of the inmate’s case, which continues form the time of the first classification until the inmates is released. This is referred to as: Answer: re-classification


Q It involves safety measures to maintain orderliness and discipline within the jail or prison.Answer: Security

Q The state of good order and behavior. It includes maintenance of good standards of works, sanitation, safety, education, health and recreation. It aims at self-reliance, self control, self respect and self discipline.Answer: Prison Discipline

Q The prompt correction of minor deviations committed by prisoners before they become serious violations.Answer: Preventive Discipline

Q Involves supervision of prisoners to ensure punctual and orderly movement from one place work program or assignment to another.Answer: Control

Q What are the aims of Institutional Security and Control:Answer:

1 Prevention of Escapes, 2 Control of Contrabands, and 3 Maintenance of good order.

Q This is anything that is contrary to prison/jail rules and regulation. Answer: Contraband

Q The guarding or penal safekeeping. It involves security measures to insure security and control within the prison. The Prison Custodial Division carries it out.Answer: Custody

Q They are in charge of all matters pertaining to the custody of the Prisoners and security of the institution.Answer: Prison Custodial Division

Q Who headed the Prison custodial Division?Answer: Chief Security Officer

Q They are supervising groups of guard’s details at several posts.Answer: Supervising Prison Guards

Q Who take charge of squad or escort guards assigned to important post such as the control gates?Answer: Senior Prison Guards

Q They are the lowest in rank assigned to sentinel post such as guard houses and gates.Answer: Prison Guards


Q What are the functions of the Custodial Division?Answer:

1. Supervision of prisoners2. Maintain order and discipline3. Inspection and security4. Escort5. Keep records

Q What are the operational plans in Jails or Prisons (Security and Controls) in case of Jailbreaks and Escapes?Answer: 1. When a jailbreak, escape or riot is in progress or has just

been perpetrated, the officer at the control center shall immediately sound the alarm.

2. At the first sound of the alarm, all prisoners shall be locked in their respective cells while those in work details shall marched in orderly manner to their cells.

3. All jail personnel, custodial or non-custodial, shall make themselves available for emergency deployment. The desk officer or shall issue firearms to members of the custodial force who shall be immediately dispatched to strategic posts according to plans.

4. Personnel assigned to essential maintenance posts such as the powerhouse, kitchen, hospitals, fire station, maybe required to help in the counting of inmates.

5. A simultaneous institution wide count shall be made to determine the number of inmates who escaped and their identity.

6. If the identities of the escapes have been established, their names and other personal circumstances shall immediately flashed to all units of the district, station or sub-station and the police HQ notified.

7. Radio stations, TV stations and other news media shall also be notified for public information in order to gain possible help in capturing the fugitives.

8. Recovery teams shall be formed to proceed to all possible hideouts, residence and houses of relatives and friends for immediate recapture.

9. In case of mass jailbreak, all members of the custodial force shall be immediately issued firearms and assigned to critical posts to plug off the escapees’ route.

10. If any officer or member shall be held as hostage, reasonable caution to insure the safety of the hostage. It is better to give into the demands of the jail breakers if possible than to place the lives of the personnel in jeopardy.

11. If the warden is taken as the hostage, for all intents and purposes, he ceases to exercise authority and the next in command or the most senior officer present shall assume the command.


12. If there are no hostages and the prisoners who are still inside the jail compound continue to defy orders by the prison authorities, the basic plans for riots or disturbances shall be made.

13. When information is received that escapees are in a certain area, it is well to maintain groups in that area to apply continuous pressure in order to force the escapes in movements.

14. An investigation shall be conducted to determine any flaws in the security plan for possible correction to be submitted to higher authorities.

Q What are the operational plans in Jails or Prisons (Security and Controls) in case of Violent Disturbances and Riots?Answer1. Lock inmates to proper quarters.2. If during visitor’s period, all visitors shall immediately

ushered out for security.3. All members of the security group shall be available for

necessary actions.4. Control Center and communication lines for emergency calls

shall be checked for readiness.5. Armorer should make immediate preparation for anti-riot

equipments.6. Custodial Force are groped into three teams namely:7. Conduct Post – Riot Procedures:

Q What board is organized and maintained in local jails for the purpose of hearing disciplinary cases involving violation of jail rules and regulations by the inmates?Answer: Disciplinary Board

Q What are the disciplinary punishments imposed by the Disciplinary Board? ReprimandAnswer:

1 Temporary or permanent cancellation of privileges in jails (visiting privileges, recreational privileges and other privileges).

2 Extra-fatigue duty or assignment to a disciplinary squad for manual labor.

3 Close confinement in a cell or solitary confinement, which shall not exceed seven days in any calendar month. This punishment shall be imposed only in the case of incorrigible inmate when other disciplinary measures had been proven ineffective.

4 Transfer to other penal institutions.5 Los of good conduct time allowance.

Q What are the limitations of punishments imposed to offenders?


Answer: 1. No female offender shall be subjected to any disciplinary

punishment that may affect her unborn or nursing child.2. No handicapped offender shall be made to suffer a punishment

that might affect his health or physical well being.3. Corporal punishment, confinement in dark, ill-ventilated

cells and any other form of cruel, unusual, inhumane or degrading punishment are absolutely prohibited.

4. Whenever the penalty of extra-fatigue duty or solitary confinement imposed affect the health of the offender, medical examination shall be conducted to determine his physical fitness to serve his punishment.

5. The jail physician shall visit the inmate undergoing punishment when necessary and shall advise the warden if he recommends the termination of the punishment on grounds of physical and mental health.

Instrument of restraint such as handcuffs, leg iron and straight jacket are not to be applied as form of punishment. They shall only be used as a precaution against escape or on the ground of medical precautions to prevent the offender from injuring himself or others.

Breaches of Discipline must be handled with out anger or emotionalism and decisions must be executed firmly and justly.

Q Who are the so called special offenders?Answer: Special Offenders includes women offenders, drug addicts, alcoholics, mentally ill persons, and sex deviates.

Q What are the treatments of special offenders?Answer: A. Female Offenders:

1. The women’s quarter should be fully separated from the men quarters and no men shall be allowed to enter the women’s quarter.

2. Female jail staff members must do all handling and supervision of female prisoners

3. Only works suitable to their sex, age and physical conditions should be assigned to them.

B. Drug Addicts/Alcoholics/Sex Deviates and Mentally-ill inmates:

1. Segregation2. Close supervision3. Special treatment/medications shall be made by the

medical officer4. Measures should be taken to enable the offender to

follow strictly the physician’s advice5. Constant search must be conducted to the quarters or

cells for seizure of narcotics and other dangerous drugs and liquor.


6. Transfer of the inmate to the appropriate government or private authority for their special treatment

7. All other measures of supervision and control of these offenders

Q What are the pre-release programs of jail or prison?Answer: 1. Special information sessions2. Granting the prisoner a greater freedom inside the

institution3. Group and individual counseling4. Transfer of prisoner from close to an open institution 5. Minimum degree of supervision

Q What are the two fold purposes of committing a prisoner to prison?Answer:

1 To segregate from society a person who by his acts has proven himself a danger to the free community

2 To strive at the correction or rehabilitation of the prisoner with the hope that upon his return to society he shall be able to lead a normal well adjusted and self supporting life as a good and law abiding citizen

Q Who administer the affairs of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP)?Answer: Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)

Q What Executive Department that supervises and controls the numerous Correctional Institutions nationwide?Answer: Bureau of Correction under the Department of Justice

Q When does punishment have deterrent effect?Answer: if a punishment gives lesson to the offender by showing to others what would happen to them if they violate the law.

Q What branch in the prison management that takes charge of financial matters especially in programming, budgeting and other activities related to financial services?Answer: Budget and Financial branch

Q Articles 1706 – 1727 of the revised Administrative Code as amended is otherwise known as:Answer: Prison Law

Q What administrative device is referred to by separating homogenous type of prisoners that requires special treatment and custody?


Answer: Diversification

Q What process of determining the needs and requirements of prisoners before assigning them to programs according to their existing resources?Answer: Classification

Q Who is the Head of the Bureau of Correction?Answer: Director of the Bureau of Correction

Q Who introduced the progressive or mark system of penal management which granted the privileges and good-conduct-time allowance gradually for the prisoners release and an improvement of the ticket of leave?Answer: Alexander Machonochie

Q When pardon cannot be extended?Answer: Before conviction; cases of impeachment; convicted of election offenses; legislative contempt.

Q What is the lowest in rank in the BJMP assigned to sentinel post such as guard houses and gates?Answer: Prison guards

Q What Bureau under the DILG is responsible for the supervision and control of Jails?Answer: Bureau of Jail Management and Penology BJMP

Q What service provides the most intensive diagnostic treatment activities which generally include the functions of psychiatrists, psychologist, social workers and auxiliary personnel, particularly to offenders with deep seated emotional problems?Answer: Medical service

Q The Custodial Division is charged with the security of prisoners, who is considered as the commanding officers?Answer: Senior prison guards

Q What referred to the commission of another crime during the time of carrying the penalty imposed for another various offenses?Answer Quasi-recidivism

Q What are the types of Jails under the Supervision of the BJMP?Answer: City and Municipal Jails

Q What are the functions of the Custodial Division?Answer: Supervision of prisoners, Keep records, and Escort


Q What referred to a person who is detained for the violation of law or ordinance and has yet been convicted? Answer: Detention Prisoner

Q What is the most used factor for diversification?Answer: degree of custody

Q Provincial Jails were first established in 1910 under the American Regime. At present, who supervises and controls the said Jails?Answer: Provincial Government

Q The putting of offenders in prison for the purpose of protecting the public and the same time rehabilitating them by requiring the latter to undergo institutional treatment program is referred to as:Answer: imprisonment

Q Prisoners sentenced from one day to three years or a fine of not more than one thousand pesos are categorized as:Answer: City Prisoners

Q Who is the Head of the Provincial Jail?Answer: Provincial Jail Warden

Q Public humiliation or public exhibition is a punishment in a form of:Answer: social degradation

Q What branch of the Criminal Justice System charged with the responsibility for the custody, supervision, and rehabilitation of the convicted offenders?Answer: Corrections

Q The features of this prison system were confinement of the prisoners in their cells day and night.Answer: Pennyslvania system

Q What is the primary purpose of imprisonment?Answer: Rehabilitation and Reformation

Q This prison system was considered more advantageous because it had been observed that prisoners could finish more articles when they work in group than working along in their individual cells.Answer: Auburn System

Q This code represented the earliest codification of Roman law which incorporated into the Justinian Code. Answer: The Twelve Tables (XII Tabulate), (451-450 BC)


Q What kind of prison discipline applies after an offense has been committed, in many cases, punishment does not deter?Answer: Leniency

Q What is a place confinement for persons awaiting trial or court action and where the convicted offenders serve short sentences or penalty of imprisonment? Answer: Jail

Q What is the term of imprisonment for Municipal prisoner?Answer: 1 day to 6 months

Q What is refers to an act of prisoner trying to convert or induce another to change his religious beliefs, sect or the like to another while under confinement?Answer: Proselytizing

Q What are the justifications of punishment?Answer: Retribution; Deterrence; expiation or atonement; correction; and rehabilitation

Q Who are prisoners that cannot be trusted in open conditions and pose less danger to society if they escape?Answer: Medium Security prisoners

Q What warrant is issued by the court bearing its seal and signature of the judge directing the jail or prison authorities to receive the convicted offender for service of sentence or detention is known as –Answer: Mittimus

Q In determining whether an offender may be placed on probation the court shall consider all information relative to:Answer:

1 Character; 2 antecedents and environment; 3 mental and physical conditions of the offender

Q What technique is used to discover and put into service other sources in the community in order to supplement the effort of the probation officer?Answer: Neighborhood technique

Q The generic term that includes all government agencies, facilities, programs, procedures, personnel and techniques concerned with the investigation, intake, custody, confinement, supervision, or treatment of alleged offenders refers to:Answer: Correction


Q The entrusting for confinement of an offender to a jail by the competent court or authority for investigation, trial and/or service of sentence is referred to asAnswer: Commitment

Q What is the condition before amnesty will be granted?

Answer: There must be a concurrence of the congress

Q In Babylon, about 1990 BC, what Code is credited as the oldest prescribing savage punishment?Answer: Hammurabi’s Code

Q What mechanical device or contrivance, tools or implement used to hold back, keep, check or control a prisoner?Answer: Instrument for Restraint

Q In 1936, the City of Manila exchanges its Muntinlupa property with the Bureau of Prisons originally intended as a site for boys’ training school. Today, the old Bilibid Prison is now being used as the Manila City Jail, famous as the:Answer: “May Halique Estate”

Q Who is the highest official of the Bureau of Corrections?Answer: Director

Q What is the purpose of the waiting period in granting absolute pardon to restore the political and civil rights of the offender released from prison?Answer: To give the offender an opportunity to demonstrate that he has established a new pattern of good conduct

Q He is the first leader to prescribe imprisonment as correctional treatment for major offenders.Answer: William Penn

Q This plays a unique role in the moral and spiritual regeneration of man.Answer: Religion

Q The sheriff of Bedsfordshire in 1773 who devoted his life and fortune to prison reform. After his findings on English Prisons, he recommended the following: single cells for sleeping, segregation of women, segregation of youth, provisions of sanitation facilities, abolition of fee system by which jailers obtained money from prisonersAnswer: John Howard

Q What referred to a penalty wherein a convicted person shall not be permitted to enter the place designated in the sentence, or within the radius therein specified, which shall not be more


than 250 and not less than 50 kilometers from the place designated.Answer: Destierro

Q Which of these referred to the assigning or grouping of offenders according to their sentence, gender, age, nationality, health, criminal record, etc?Answer: Classification

Q The penalty imposed for offenders must be certain. This means that:Answer: no one must escape its effect

Q What law can be considered the second probation law in the Philippines, which is intended only for minors?Answer: PD 603/RA 9344

Q What century may be considered as the period of transition from corporal punishment to imprisonment?Answer: 16th century

Q The duration of arresto menor as a penalty is from _____ imprisonment.Answer: 1 day to 30 days

Q Where a newly committed insular prisoner undergoes diagnosis and treatment as part of the classification process?Answer: Reception and diagnostic center

Q It is the redress that the state takes against an offending member of society that usually involves pain and suffering. It is also the penalty imposed on an offender for a crime or wrongdoing.Answer: Punishment

Q What theory punishing a criminal to served as an example to others?Answer: Exemplary theory

Q What crime is committed by Mr. Alex Cruz who was convicted and escaped from his place of confinement?Answer: liable for evasion of service

Q What action is aimed to prevent moral or physical contamination of one group by another and to prevent unnecessary custodial risk?Answer: Segregation of prisoners

Q Who is tasked with the gathering and collecting of information and other data of every prisoner into a case study to determine


the work assignment, the type supervision an degree of custody and restriction under which an offender must live in jail?Answer: Classification Board

Q Mr. Manny Killip was convicted for the crime of homicide. While serving his sentence, he committed the crime of rape. Manny Killip is a:Answer: Quasi – recidivist

Q What is the purpose of commutation?Answer: To reduce the penalty imposed by law

Q What period should be deducted from the sentence of a prisoner who escaped on the occasion of disorder arising from conflagration, earthquake or catastrophes and he voluntarily surrendered himself within 48 hours following the announcing the termination of such disorder?Answer: 1/5 period of sentence

Q The Bureau of Corrections has an admission program for newly committed offenders to remain in the reception and diagnostic center for a period of:Answer: 60 days

Q Mr. Val Pande is a Baranagy Tanod in their barangay. He arrested Mike Manipon for some legal ground but he failed to file a complaint against the latter with in the prescribed period of filing. What crime did Val Pande committed?Answer: illegal detention

Q What is the purpose of the decree of probation?Answer: Promote the correction and rehabilitation of an offender by providing him with individualized treatment.

Q What is the most common problem of the national prison?Answer: Overcrowding

Q PO1 Juan arrested Dino Santos by virtue of a warrant of arrest. He failed to deliver the latter to the proper judicial authorities with the prescribed hours of delivery. What crime did the policeman commit?Answer: Arbitrary detention

Q How many days that a national offender be confined at the Separation Center before the actual release?Answer: 15 days

Q The Camp Sampaguita in Muntinlupa houses:Answer Medium Security Prisoners


Q What are the factors considered in diversification?Answer: Age of offender; sex of offenders; and medical condition

Q The punishment should be provided by the state whose sanction is violated, to afford the society or individual the opportunity of imposing upon the offender suitable punishment as might be enforced. Offenders should be punished because they deserve it. This is one jurisdiction of punishment called:Answer: Retribution

Q Under the prison service manual, what is the prescribed color of prison uniform for maximum security prison?Answer: Orange

Q What branch takes charge of the preparation of the daily menu, makes foodstuff purchases, prepares and cooks the food and serves it to the inmates. It maintains a record of daily purchases and consumption and submits a daily report to the warden?Answer: Mess service branch

Q These are programs conducive to change behavior in morale by training prisoners for a useful education. It is purposely to eliminate idleness on the part of prisoners, which may contribute to “Prison stupor”, and it affects the incidence of Prison riot.Answer: Work Programs

Q What is the end purpose of classification?Answer: to develop integrated and realistic program for prison life where rehabilitation program of the prisoner is carried out.

Q This refers to the temporary stay in the execution of sentence.Answer: Reprieved

Q What refers to penitence model of prison built in 1820’s were communication among the prisoners was next to impossible, prisoners were individually isolated?Answer: Pennsylvania system

Q When an inmate is given a “shakedown” before admission it meant Answer: Examination for contraband

Q What admission procedure is involves by frisking of the prisoner and searching his personal things? Answer: searching

Q What is built in 1904 by Pope Clement XI for incorrigible boys and youth under 20


Answer: Hospice of San Michelle

Q Within what period an inmate is transferred to a separation center prior to his release for adjustment process from life in prison to life in free community?Answer: 30 days prior to release

Q What is referred to a group of chronic troublemakers but not as dangerous as the upper security prisoners? They are not allowed to work outside of the institution.Answer: Maximum security prisoners

Q When jailbreak, escape or riot is in progress or has just been perpetrated in the jail, what is the necessary action to be made by the officer at the control centers? Answer: sound the alarm

Q What is the factor used mostly for the diversification of correctional institution?Answer: Degree of custody

Q What refers to a prisoner who is sentenced to serve imprisonment for not more than 3 years?Answer: Provincial prisoners

Q When an inmate maybe granted parole?Answer: upon serving the minimum of his sentence

Q What procedure that permits a jail prisoner to pursue his normal job during the week and return to the jail to serve his sentence during the weekend or non-working hours?Answer: Delayed sentence

Q What is the primary reason why in case of mass jailbreak, all members of the custodial force shall be immediately issued firearms and assigned to critical posts?Answer: to plug off the escape routes.

Q Who is liable when an inmate commits suicide?Answer: The jail administration is liable.

Q Who grants amnesty?Answer: Chief executive or president with the concurrence of congress.

Q If the warden is taken as the hostage, for all intents and purposes, he ceases to exercise authority and the next in command shall assume the authority. In case the next in command is not available, who will assume the command in that particular situation?


Answer: the most senior that is present

Q Who coined Borstal Prison, which considered as the best reformatory institutions for young offenders?Answer: Sir Evelyn Rugges Brise

Q What is an earliest devise for softening brutal severity of punishment through the compromise with the church?Answer: Benefits of the clergy

Q Aside from the protecting the public, what is the latest objective of imprisonment?Answer: reformation of offenders

Q A recipient of absolute pardon is____ from civil liability imposed upon him by the sentence.Answer: Not exempted

Q What is the Republic Act that fully deducts the period of the offender’s preventive detention from the sentence imposed by the court?Answer: RA 6127

Q Which of these is known as the release on Recognizance Law providers for the release of offender charged with the offense whose penalty is not more than six (6) months and/or a fine of P2, 000.00 or both, to the custody of a responsible person in the community, instead of a bail bond –Answer: RA 6036

Q Who is charged for the hearing of disciplinary cases in prison?Answer: Disciplinary Board

Q The imprisonment of convicted offender may serve at the rate of PhP 8.00 a day, subject to certain rules, for failure to pay a fine and ordered to do so by the judgment is referred to as:Answer: Subsidiary imprisonment

Q Upon the assumption of the IPPC’s work, the United Nations preferred to identify its activities and programs under the broader concept of:Answer: Social justice

Q When the court may grant probation?Answer: only after conviction

Q Placing a person to custodial coercion is to place him into physical jeopardy, thus drastically narrowing his access to sources of personal satisfaction and reducing his self – esteem. This is true in:


Answer: Humanitarian aspect

Q All persons in custody shall be entitled to bail as a matter of: Answer: Right

Q What are manners which will relieve inmates feeling of insecurity about his situation; it is likewise essential in effecting new changes, which affect the masses or inmate population?Answer: Good communication; conjugal leaves; food; and recreation.

Q What department belong the Bureau of Corrections?Answer: Department of justice

Q Those who have been once probation under the Probation Law:Answer: are disqualified to apply for probation

Q Upon receipt of the probation officer investigation report, when the court shall resolve the application for probation? Answer: 15 days

Q What is the quasi- judicial body which was created under Act No. 4103 otherwise known as the Indeterminate Sentence Law?Answer: Board of Pardon and Parole

Q A private person who, in 1669, established a workhouse in Hamburg at his own expense because he had observed that thieves and prostitutes were made worse instead by better by the pillory and he hoped that they might be improved by work and religious instruction in the workhouse. He isAnswer: Peter Rentzel

Q What refers to a person who is sentenced to serve a prison term of over 3 years?Answer: National prisoners or insular prisoners

Q What model underscores the assumption that criminal behavior is caused by biological or psychological conditions that require treatment?Answer: Medical model

Q When forced is used only by correctional institution?Answer: only to Enforce discipline

Q When the Supreme Court automatically review the cases of convicted criminals? Answer: Death; Reclusion Perpetua; and Life Sentence


Q What theory in crime causation focuses on the criminal disorder, chromosome irregularity; and abnormal brain activity?Answer: Biological theory

Q Changing criminals through non punitive means is referred to as:Answer: Reformation

Q Alfonso Mata was sentenced to imprisonment on September 30, 2007. on October 5, 2007 the judge who promulgated the decision died. What is the effect of the judge’s death to the service of Alfonso’s sentence?Answer: He will have to serve his sentence

Q What was the system of money compensation in which harm could be atoned for by a money payment to the injured party?Answer: Fine

Q Prison work assignments are given to prison usually:Answer: At early morning hours

Q What should be developed in order to enhance corrections in the country?Answer: Management of correction efficient

Q What law renamed the Bureau of Prison to Bureau of Correction during the Aquino Administration in the Philippines?Answer: E.O. 292

Q What theory in penal science which maintains that punishment gives lesson to the offender?Answer: Deterrence

Q The Sablayan Penal Colony and Farm, a National Penitentiary in the Philippines under the BUCOR is located in:Answer: Occ. Mindoro

Q In the history of correction, thinkers during the reformatory movement were the major influences of today’s correctional system. Alexander Mochanochie was the one who introduce the:Answer: Marked System

Q Retaliation is the earliest remedy for a wrong act to any one (in the primitive society). The concept follows that the victim’s hence “blood feuds” was accepted in the early primitive societies. Retaliation means:Answer: Personal Vengeance

Q The penalty imposed for offenders must be certain. This means that:


Answer: No one must escape its effect

Q What is the duration period of arresto menor as a penalty? Answer: 1 day to 30 days

Q Mr. Alex Cruz was convicted of the crime of murder. After 10 days from the promulgation of the sentence, he escaped from his place of confinement. He is:Answer: Not liable for evasion of service of sentence (the finality of his sentence is after 15 days, wherefore his penalty does not yet ripen to convict him of evasion)

Q Ms. Ines Banta was convicted for the crime of infanticide. After serving her sentence she committed again the same crime. Ms. Ines Banta is a:Answer: recidivist

Q Mr. Manny Killip was convicted for the crime of homicide. While serving his sentence, he committed the crime of rape. Manny Killip is a:Answer: Quasi-recidivist

Q Mr. Val Pande is a barangay tanod in their barngay. He arrested Mike Manipon for some legal ground but failed to file a complaint against the latter in the prescribed period of filing. What crime did Val Pande committed?Answer: illegal detention

Q Mr. Dino Santos is a private individual. He conspired with PO1 Juan in detaining , without legal ground, Mr. Tim Mc Keyak, Japanese turned Filipino. What crime did Dino committed?Answer: illegal detention

Q PO1 Juan arrested Dino Santos by virtue of a warrant of arrest. He failed to deliver the latter to the proper judicial authorities within the prescribed hours of delivery. What crime did the policemen commit?Answer: There is no crime committed because there is no time limit specified except that the return must be made within a reasonable time. The period fixed by law under Article 125 does not apply because the arrest was made by virtue of a warrant of arrest.


Q The punishment should be provided by the state whose sanction is violated, to afford the society or individual the opportunity of imposing upon the offender suitable punishment as might be enforced. Offenders should be punished because they deserve it. This is one justification called:Answer: Retribution

Q One of the following is an admission procedure which involves the frisking of the prisoner.Answer: Searching

Q When a jailbreak, escape or riot is in progress or has just been perpetrated in the jail, what is the action of the officer at the control centers? Answer: Immediately Sound the alarm

Q In case of mass jailbreak, all members of the custodial force shall be immediately issued firearms and assigned to critical posts to:Answer: Plug off the escape routes

Q If the warden is taken as the hostage, for all intents and purposes, he ceases to exercise authority and the next in command or the _____ officer present shall assume the command.Answer: most senior

Q An amount of money specified by a judge to be posted as a condition for pre-trial release for the purpose of ensuring the appearance of the accused in court as required:Answer: Bail

Q The right to be tried in an ecclesiastical court, where punishments were less severe than those meted out by civil court, given religious focus on penance and salvation. The original purpose of this practice was to protect person who were under church authority, such as monks, nuns, priest etc. from the awesome punitive power of the state represented by the king’s law.Answer: Benefit of the clergy

Q Punishment inflicted on the body of the offender with the whips or the other devices that causes pain is referred to as:Answer: Corporal Punishment


Q The aggregate or programs, services, facilities and organizations responsible for the management of people who have been accused or convicted of criminal offense.Answer: Correction

Q What model of a correctional institution that emphasizes security, discipline and orders?Answer: Custodial Model

Q A sentence of a fixed period of incarceration imposed by a court. This type of sentence is associated with the concept or retribution or deserved punishment.Answer: DETERMINATE SENTENCE

Q Refers to a reduction of time to be served in correctional institutions awarded at the discretion of correctional officials to inmates whose behavior conforms to the rules or whose activities deserve to be rewarded.Answer: good conduct time allowance

Q A judicial policy of noninterference in the internal administration of prisons.Answer: HANDSOFF POLICY

Q A period of incarceration set by a judge as a minimum term that must be served before a decision on parole eligibility is made and a maximum term at the conclusion of which the sentence has been completed. This type of sentence is closely associated with the rehabilitation concept, which holds that the time necessary for treatment cannot be predetermined.Answer: INDETERMINATE SENTENCE

Q A set of rules of conduct that reflect the values and norms of the prison system and help to define for inmates the characteristics associated with the model prisoner.Answer: INMATE CODE

Q A model of the criminal sanction that emphasizes deserved punishment; criminals should be punished because they have infringed the rights of others; the severity of the sanction should fit the seriousness of the crime.Answer: JUST DESERT MODEL

Q Law of retaliation; the principle that punishment corresponds in degree and kind with the offense, as an eye for an eye or tooth for a tooth.Answer: LEX TALIONIS


Q A facility authorized to hold persons to court appearance for periods of up to forty-eight hours. Most of them are administered by local police agencies.Answer: LOCK-UP

Q The required release of an inmate form incarceration upon the expiration of a certain time period, as stipulated by a determinate sentencing law or parole guidelines.Answer: MANDATORY RELEASE

Q A sentence required by statute to be imposed and executed upon certain offender.Answer: MANDATORY SENTENCE

Q A model of corrections based on the assumption that criminal behavior is caused by biological or psychological conditions that require treatment.Answer: MEDICAL MODEL

Q Refers to a warrant issued by a court bearing it seal and signature of the judge, directing the jail or prison authorities to receive the convicted offender or detainee for the service of sentence or for detention.Answer: MITTIMUS

Q A written order issued by the judge directing the jail officer or custodian to confine a convicted person of a crime for the purpose of serving sentence.Answer: SENTENCED MITTIMUS

Q A written order by the judge directing the jail custodian to confine a detainee for an offense.Answer: DETENTION MITTIMUS

Q Detention of an accused person in jail for the purpose of protecting the community from crime because the accused is considered likely to commit if he or she is set free pending trial.Answer: PREVENTIVE DETENTION

Q The process by which new inmates absorbs the customs of the society and learns to adopt to the environment.Answer: PRISONIZATION

Q A model of correctional institution that emphasizes the provision of treatment programs designed to reform the offender.Answer: REHABILITATION MODEL

Q Rehabilitation of the offender by supervision in the community, undertaken in the belief that criminal behavior results from a


lack of opportunity to succeeded legitimately in the community and therefore such opportunities must be made available.Answer: REINTEGRATION

Q A model of correctional institution that emphasizes maintenance of the opportunities to the family and the community as a method of reform, in recognition of the fact that the offender will be returning to the community.Answer: REINTEGRATION MODEL

Q Compensation for financial, physical or emotional loss caused by an offender, in the form of either a payment for money to the victim or work at a service project in the community, as stipulated by the court.Answer: RESTITUTION

Q Deserved punishment. Punishment inflicted on a person who has infringed the rights of others and so deserves to the penalized to a degree commensurate with the crime.Answer: RETRIBUTION

Q A penitentiary system developed in Pennsylvania in accordance with which each inmate was held in isolation from other inmates. All activities, including craftworks, were carried on in the cells.Answer: SEPARATE CONFINEMENT

Q The division of authority among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government.Answer: SEPARATION OF POWER

Q A penitentiary system developed in Auburn, New York, where each inmate was held in isolation during the night but worked with fellow prisoners during the day under a rule of silence.Answer: SILENT (CONGREGATE) SYSTEM

Q The doctrine that the aim of all actions should be the greatest possible balance of pleasure over pain; hence, the belief that a punishment inflicted on an offender must achieve enough good to outweigh the pain inflicted.Answer: UTILITARIANISM

Q Increasing the scope of corrections by applying a diversion program to persons charged with offenses less serious than those of the person’s the program was originally intended to serve.Answer: WIDENING THE NET

Q Release of sentenced inmate from a correctional institution for work during the day, the inmate must spend nights and weekends in the facility.


Answer: WORK RELEASE

Q A written order of the court or any other competent authority consigning an offender to a jail or prison for confinement.Answer: COMMITMENT ORDER

Q Any article; item or thing prohibited by law and/ or forbidden by jail or prison rules.Answer: CONTRABAND

Q An act of getting out unlawfully from confinement or custody by an inmate.Answer: ESCAPE

Q A device, contrivance, tool or instrument used to hold back, keep-in, check or control an inmate; e.g. handcuffs.Answer: INSTRUMENT OF RESTRAINT

Q A place of confinement for inmates under investigation, awaiting or undergoing investigation or service of sentence.Answer: JAIL

Q A branch of criminology which deals with management and administration of inmates.Answer: PENOLOGY

Q The temporary custody of a person for his own protection, safety or care and/or his custody from harm, injury or danger for the liability he has committed.Answer: SAFEKEEPING

Q Either a prisoner or detainee confined in jail.Answer: INMATE

Q A person accused before a court or competent authority who is temporarily confined in jail while undergoing investigation, awaiting final judgment.Answer: DETAINEE

Q An inmate who is convicted by final judgment and classified as insular, provincial city or municipal prisoner.Answer: PRISONER

Q A marching step originated at Auburn, New York, in which prisoners march one behind another as closely as possible.Answer: LOCK – STEP

Q Is the systematic measures taken in ensuring that the movement of inmates are in accordance with standing policies, rules and


regulations granted by the court, authorities or administrators at all times.Answer: CONTROL

Q The law governing BJMP.Answer: RA 7659

Q The process or result of a formal training in school or classrooms intended to shape the mind and attitude of prisoners towards good living upon their release.Answer: prison education

Q The purpose of this program is to change the attitude of inmates by calculating religious values of beliefs.Answer: religious services

Q These are programs that are intended to treat criminal offenders within the free community as alternative to confinement.Answer: community based treatment programs

Part II

SET A

Practice test

1 What office of the BJMP undertakes the development of a systematic process of treatment?

a Wardenb asst. wardenc administrative groupd jail guards

2 Which of the following has the responsibility of direction, coordination and control of the jail?

a wardenb asst. wardenc regional directord jail guards


3 What office takes charge of all administrative function of the jail bureau?

a.b. Wardenc. asst. wardend. regional directore. jail guards

4 What branch of the administrative group prepares individual record and files of the Jail Bureau employees?

a personnel mgmt.b general servicec records and statisticsd mitimus computing branch

5 What branch of the administrative group that keeps and maintain sheets and arrests reports?


6 Administrative branch task to receive court decisions and compute full completion of penalty.

a budget and finance b mess service branchc mittimus computing branchd property and supply branch

7 Administrative branch which is responsible for all repairs and maintenance.


8 What group provides a system of sound custody and control of inmates?

a escort platoonb subpoena sectionc security groupd security platoon

9 What group is responsible for all overall security of jail compound?

a escort platoonb subpoena section


c security groupd security platoon

10 Who among the given choices is responsible in bringing inmates into other jail or prison?

a escort platoonb subpoena sectionc security groupd security platoon

11 The group which provides assistance to prisoners and their families in solving their individual needs.

a administrative groupsb rehabilitation groupc security groupsd general services group

12 What examines, treats, and medical and physical examination of inmates?

a health serviceb socio-cultural servicec chaplaincy serviced work therapy services

13 It takes charge of the job and educational rehabilitation programs for the inmates.


14 It takes charge of the moral upliftment of the inmates which caters to all religious sects.


15 It gives free legal services and liaison works for the inmates.a health serviceb socio-cultural servicec chaplaincy serviced work therapy services

16 This is the special unit of the prison where new prisoners undergo diagnostic examination.

a rehabilitation purposes unitb reception and diagnostic centerc camp sampaguitad None


17 Who is responsible for the examination of the prisoners mental and emotional make-up?

a sociologistb psychiatrist c psychologistd medical officer

18 Who refers to the transfer and type custody of prisoners?a vocational counselorb chaplainc correction officerd educational counselor

19 Who conducts physical examination and recommends medical treatment of prisoners


20 Who encourages prisoners to participate in religious activities?a vocational counselorb chaplainc correction officerd educational counselor

21 Who is responsible to conduct study on the character and behavior of the prisoner?


22 Who recommends and orients the prisoner on educational matter?a sociologistb psychiatrist c psychologistd medical officer

23 Who studies the social cases situation of the individual prisoner?


24 Who test the prisoners’ individual prisoner?a vocational counselorb chaplainc correction officerd educational counselor


25 A type of jail that provides full employment of prisoners and constructive leisure time activities

a jail farmb jailc lock-up jaild ordinary jail

26 The following are different forms of execution of death penalty except:

a hangingb stoningc flyingd disemboweling

27 During the reign of Henry II in 13th cent. It originated in a compromise with the church which had maintained that a member of the clergy brought to trial in a Kind’s court might be claimed from that jurisdiction by the bishop or chaplain representing him or the ground that he, the prisoner, was subject to the authority of the ecclesiastical courts only.

a benefit of the clergyb securing sanctuary c benefit of the kingd none

28 An older method of suspending or deferring judgment, the direct ancestor of probation, was binding over good behavior.

a banishmentb degradationc transportationd release on recognizance

29 These are programs conducted to change the behavior by training prisoners for useful occupation.

a work programsb rehabilitation programc program disciplined none of the above

30 What Executive Department supervises and controls the numerous Correctional Institutions nationwide?

a Department of Justiceb Department of Interior and Local Governmentc Department of Social Welfare and Developmentd Department of National Defense

31 What is the primary purpose of imprisonment? a Rehabilitation and Reformationb to stand trial


c Punishmentd Socialization

32 The act of prisoner trying to convert or induce another to change his religious beliefs, sect or the like to another while under confinement is referred to as

a Proselytizingb Initiationc Fraternizationd Inducement

33 The mechanical device or contrivance, tools or implement used to hold back, keep in check or under control is the

a Instrument of Restraintb Iron leg Lockc Handcuffsd metallic chains

34 The maintenance of care and protection accorded to people who by authority of law are temporarily incarcerated for violation of laws and also those who were sentenced by the court to serve judgment is called

a custody b Safe-Keeping c Protectiond Classification

35 Which of these refers to the assigning or grouping of offenders according to their sentence, gender, age, nationality, health, criminal record, etc?

a Classificationb Custodyc Securityd Safe Keeping

36 Where a newly committed insular prisoner undergoes diagnosis and treatment as part of the classification process?

a Reception and diagnostic center (RDC)b Medical Centerc treatment Centerd Diagnostic and Treatment Center

37 Who is tasked with the gathering and collecting of information and other data of every prisoner into a case study to determine the work assignment, the type supervision and degree of custody and restriction under which an offender must live in jail?

a Classification Boardb Board of Custodyc Diagnostic Boardd Treatment Board


38 The open institution usually a penal farm or camp is known as the

a NBPb Maximum Security Institutionc Medium Security Institutiond Minimum Security Institution

39 The Bureau of Correction has an admission program for newly committed offenders to remain in the reception and diagnostic center for a period of –

a 30 daysb 20 days c 45 daysd 60 days

40 How many days that a national offender be confined at the Separation Center before the actual release?

a 30 b 10 c 15d 45

41 Under the prison service manual, the prescribed color of prison uniform for maximum security prison is-

a Orangeb Yellow c Strife Oranged Blue

42 Who is the executive officer in charge of each correctional institution?

a Correctional or custodial officerb Warden or Superintendent c Commissioner or Directord Chief Warden

43 The end purpose of classification is -a To orient new inmates for prison lifeb To prepare inmates for prison lifec To develop integrated and realistic program for prison d all of these

44 When an inmate is given a "shakedown" before admission it meanta Process of identification, record, fingerprint and

photographb Examination for contrabandc His commitment paper are delivered to record clerkd All of these

45 Who prescribes minimum standard of security, hygiene, recreational, work program to provincial and/or city jails?


a Secretary of Justice b Custodial Officerc Director of Prison d Director for Good Behavior

46 Aside from protecting the public, imprisonment has for its latest objective, the -

a reformation of offendersb Deterrencec Segregation of offenderd Confinement of Offenders

47 In the New Bilibid Prison, the medium security prisoners are confined at –

a NBP main prisonb Camp Bukang Liwaywayc Camp Sampaguitad Medium Security Prison

48 Who is charged for the hearing of disciplinary cased in prison?a Classification Boardb Parole Boardc Administrative Boardd Disciplinary Board

49 The imprisonment a convicted offender may serve, at the rate of PhP8.00 a day subject to certain rules, for failure to pay a fine and if ordered to do so by the judgment is referred to as

a Subsidiary imprisonmentb Secondary Imprisonmentc Preventive Imprisonmentd None of the above

50 Placing a person to custodial coercion is to place him into physical jeopardy, thus drastically narrowing his access to sources of personal satisfaction and reducing his self –esteem. This is true in:

a Managerial aspect b Restorative aspectc Humanitarian aspectd None of the above is correct

51 The Bureau of Correction is under the Department of:a Interior and Local Government b Bureau of Jail Management and Penologyc Justiced National Security

52 The meaning of the word oblivion is a forgetting completelyb class of persons


c abolishd community based treatment

53 The principle of separating homogeneous type of prisoners that requires special treatment and custody is called:

a classification b distinctionc diversificationd quarantine

54 The process of determining the needs and requirements of

prisoners for assigning them to programs according to their existing resources is called:

a classification b quarantinec diversificationd quality control

55 The formulation of tentative treatment program suited for the prisoner is known as :

a medical officerb treatment planning c classification boardd treatment program

56 The lowest in rank assigned to sentinel post such as guard houses and gates are:

a Prison guardsb PO1c Senior prison guardsd NUP

57 The Custodial Division is charged with the security of prisoners, which of the following is considered as the commanding officers?

a security officers b senior prison guardsc supervisor prison guardsd prison guards

58 Which of the following is the function of the Custodial Division?

a supervision of prisonersb escortc keep recordsd all of the above

59 The most used factor for diversification is:a degree of custodyb minimum securityc maximum security


d graveness of crime

60 The putting of offenders in prison for the purpose of protecting the public and at the same time rehabilitating them by requiring the latter to undergo institutional treatment program is referred to as:

a imprisonmentb convictionc Triald Detention

61 Prisoners sentenced from one day to three years or a fine of not more than one thousand pesos are categorized as-

a Insular Prisonerb City Prisonerc Provincial Prisonerd none of these

62 Public humiliation or public exhibition also mean:a public execution b social degradationc banishmentd public trial

63 During the 16th up to the 18th century, a criminal may be sent away from a place carried out by prohibition to coming against a specified territory. This is an ancient form of punishment called:

a exileb transportationc banishmentd public trial

64 The theory in penal science which maintains that punishment gives lesson to the offender and the would be criminals is called:

a deterrenceb reformationsc incapacitationd public safety

65 One of the following represents the earliest codification of the Roman law, which was incorporated into the Justinian Code.

a Twelve Tables b Burgundian Codec Code of Dracod Hammurabic code

66 Municipal prisoners are those sentenced to suffer a term of imprisonment from _____.

a 1 day to 3 years


b 1 day to 30 daysc 1 day to 6 monthsd none of these

67 The Sablayan Penal Colony and Farm, a National Penitentiary in the Philippines under the BUCOR is located in:

a Palawanb Davaoc Zamboangad Occ. Mindoro

68 The generic term that includes all government agencies, facilities, programs, procedures, personnel, and techniques concerned with the investigation, intake, custody, confinement, supervision, or treatment of alleged offenders refers to:

a Correction b Penologyc criminal Justiced base pillar

69 Retaliation is the earliest remedy for a wrong act to any one (in the primitive society). The concept follows that the victim’s family or tribe against the family or tribe of the offender, hence “blood feuds” was accepted in the early primitive societies. Retaliation means:

a Personal Vengeanceb Tooth for a toothc Eye for an Eyed all of these

70 In 1936, the City of Manila exchanges its Muntinlupa property with the Bureau of Prisons originally intended as a site for boys’ training school. Today, the old Bilibid Prison is now being used as the Manila City Jail, famous as the :

a “ May Halique Estate”b “Tandang Sora State”c New Bilibid Jaild Muntinlupa Jail

71 He is the first leader to prescribe imprisonment as correctional treatment for major offenders.

a Charles Montesiquieu b Jeremy Benthamc William Pennd Cesare Beccaria

72 The sheriff of Bedsfordshire in 1773 who devoted his life and fortune to prison reform. After his findings on English Prisons, he recommended the following: single cells for sleeping, segregation of women, segregation of youth, provision of sanitation facilities, abolition of fee system by which jailers obtained money from prisoners.


a John Howardb Robert Peelc William Pennd Manuel Montesimos

73 The penalty imposed for offenders must be certain. This means that:

a the guilty one must be the one to be punished, no proxyb no one must escape its effectc it must be equal for all persond the consequences must be in accordance with law

74 Mr. Manny was convicted for the crime of homicide. While serving his sentence, he committed the crime of rape. Manny is considered a:

a recidivistb quasi-recidivistc habitual delinguent d mentally retarded person

75 The only early Roman place of confinement which is built under the main sewer of Rome in 64 B.C.

a Bridewell Workhouseb Wulnut Street Jailc Burgundian Housed none of these

76 The punishment should be provided by the state whose sanction is violated, to afford the society or individual the opportunity of imposing upon the offender suitable punishment as might be enforced. Offenders should be punished because they deserve it. This is one justification of punishment called:

a Atonementb Incapacitationc Deterrenced Retribution

77 The program which is conducive to change behavior and moral by changing prisoner’s attitude for a useful education refers to:

a Vocational educationb Prison educationc Work programsd Recreational Programs

78 The following are the aims of diversification in prison or jail, except:

a more effective execution of treatment programb to prevent physical contamination of one group anotherc to prevent unnecessary custodial riskd none of the above


79 The following are the duties of the custodial force in prison, except:

a Censor offender’s inmateb Escort inmatesc Inspect security devicesd Conduct disciplinary hearing

80 One of the following is an admission procedure which involves the frisking of the prisoner.

a Identificationb Searchingc Briefing/Orientationd minimum security prisoners

81 When a jailbreak, escape or riot is in progress or has just been perpetrated in the jail, the officer at the control centers shall immediately:

a sound the alarmb notify the nearest police precinctc locked prisoners in their respective cellsd call the warden or the director

82 In case of mass jailbreak, all members of the custodial force shall be immediately issued firearms and assigned to critical posts to:

a plug off the escape routesb to shoot the escapec protect the other inmatesd to give warning shots

83 If the warden is taken as the hostage, for all intents and purposes, he ceases to exercise authority and the next in command or the _______ officer present shall assume the command.

a Veteranb assistantc most seniord custodian

84 A private person who, in 1669, established a workhouse in Hamburg at his own expense because he had observed that thieves and prostitutes were made worse instead by better by the pillory and he hoped that they might be improved by work and religious instruction in the workhouse. He is:

a August Vollmer b Peter Rentzelc Bishop Ridleyd Garofalo

85 During the 16th up to the 18th century, a criminal may be sent away from a place carried out by prohibition to coming against a


specified territory. This is an ancient form of punishment called:

a exileb transportationc banishmentd public trial

86 The correctional principle that “the basis of all social action must be the utilitarian conception of the greatest happiness for the greatest number” was set forth by.

a Monstesquieub Beccariac Locked Voltaire

87 Female prison reform during the 19th century had the following principles EXCEPT:

a separation of women prisoners from maleb suspension of sentencec control of women’s prison by female management and staffd provision for differential feminine care

88 Which of the following factors are considered in petition for executive clemency?1. age of the petitioner2. gravity of the offense3. manner in which offenses was committed4. petitioner’s institutional conduct of behavior5. previous criminal record, if any

a 2, 3, 4 and 5b all these listedc 1, 2, 3 and 4d 3, 4, 5 and 1

89 Joan was convicted of the crime of theft at age 10. What law provides that she should be released to her family?

a Presidential Decree No. 1184b Presidential Decree No. 968c Presidential Decree No. 603d Presidential Decree No. 448

90 Who among the prisoners is a national prisoner?1. One who is sentenced to a maximum term of imprisonment of

more than three (3) yeas or to a fine or more than P5,000.002. Regardless of length of sentence, one sentenced for violation

of Customs Law or other laws within the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Customs

3. Regardless of length of sentence, one sentenced for violation of Immigration Laws and Election Law


4. One sentenced to serve two (2) or more prison sentences in the aggregate exceeding the period of three (3) years

a 3, 4 and 1b 2, 3 and 4c all those listedd 1, 2 and 3

91 One of the following criminologists espoused the idea that the certainty of punishment outweighs its severity as a deterrent against crime?

a Cesare Beccariab Charles Goringc Jeremy Benthamd William Sheldon

92 Which office evaluates the prisoners’ fitness and qualification for the grant of pardon and parole?

a Department of Justiceb Parole and Probation Administrationc National Prosecution Serviced Board of Pardon and Parole

93 Force is used only by correctional institutions to a exact respectb enforce disciplinec show physical strength and powerd perform assignments

94 What correctional institution houses accused persons awaiting trial?

a Rehabilitation centerb Jailc Half-way housed Prison

95 The following are identified as correctional dilemmas EXCEPT:a ambivalent correctional strategies and techniquesb unclear statement of correctional missionc government support for finding requirementsd inadequacy of correctional personnel

96 The ________ theory in crime causation focuses on the criminal disorders, chromosome irregularity, and abnormal brain activity.

a Psychological theoryb Sociological theoryc Biological theoryd Political theory

97 Who said the “criminal acts are signals of distress, signals of failures, the spasms of struggles and convulsions of a sub-


marginal human being trying to make it in our complex society with inadequate equipment and preparation?”

a John Howardb James Wilsonc Karl Menningerd Jeremy Bentham

98 The Parole and Probation Administration administers a _______ corrections program.

a institutional b integrated c community basedd traditional

99 Changing criminals through non-punitive means is referred to as:a retributionb restitutionc reformationd rehabilitation

100 Alfonso Mata was sentenced to imprisonment on September 30, 2002. On October 5, 2002 the judge who promulgated the decision died. What is the effect of the judge’s death to the service of Alfonso’s sentence?

a he will have to serve his sentenceb his sentenced will be suspendedc his sentenced will not be binding anymored his sentenced will be reduced

SET B

1 Placido was convicted to a prison term of prison correctional will be qualify for probation.

a. Yes, his sentence is three (3) years and one (1) dayb. No, his sentenced is three (6) years and one (1) dayc. Yes, his sentence is less than six (6) years and one (1)

dayd. No, his sentence is more than six (6) years and one (1)

day

2 What was the system of money compensation in which a harm could be atoned for by a money payment to the injured party?

a. lex talionesb. wergildc. wited. fine


3 It is an arrangement where a prisoner goes out of the institution to attend educational classes.

a. Vocational Program b. Work Furloughc. Guidance Counselingd. Study Release

4 What the right to be tried in an ecclesiastical court during the middle age?

a. Inquisitionb. social contractc. benefits of the clergyd. secular prosecution

5 Prison work assignments are given to prisoners usually:a. at early morning hoursb. after recreational hoursc. before sleeping hoursd. during the middle hours of the day

6 Which among the following strategies should be developed in order to enhance corrections in the country?

a. development of clear vision, mission, objectivesb. management of correction efficientlyc. integration of correctional serviced. encouragement of private sector to assist corrections

7 This was period when concepts of liberalism, nationality, equality and individualism dominated social and political thinking in the 18th century in England.

a. Age of Reformb. Age of Discernmentc. Age of Rehabilitationd. Age of Reason

8 What was the classical theory provide?a. Criminal behavior is inherited and therefore could be

controlled by regulating the reproduction of familiesb. Criminal behavior us learned interaction with other

persons in a process of communicationc. Crime and delinquency are symptoms of social and penalty

disordersd. The basis for criminal liability is human free will and

the purpose of penalty is retribution

9 What correctional goal is referred to when the offender is rendered physically unable to commit crime in the future?

a. deterrence b. rehabilitationc. incapacitation d. retribution


10 Under the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of Prisoners which of the following are two (2) basic principles under rules of general application to prisoners?1. There shall be no discrimination on grounds of race, color,

sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, birth or other status

2. It is necessary to respect that religious beliefs and moral precepts of the group to which a prisoners belongs

3. The treatment of prisoners should emphasize not their exclusion from the community, but their continuing part in it.

4. Unconvicted prisoners are presumed to be innocent and shall be treated as such

a. 2 and 3b. 1 and 2c. 3 and 4d. 4 and 1

11 When does the punishment have a deterrent effect?a. punishment reduces the capacity of an individual to commit

a crimeb. Punishment is serious compared with the nature of offensec. Punishment disgraces the offender before the publicd. Punishment serves as an example to the public thus,

discouraging the commission

12 Who espoused the idea that criminality increases in proportion as one approach the equator?

a. Lombrosob. Ferric. Garofalod. Montesquieu

13 This is an investigation of behavior based on subjects’ responses to questions concerning activities in which they have engaged.

a. victimization studyb. social studyc. self-report studyd. criminological research

14 Antonio Lava was sentenced to serve a maximum term of imprisonment of not more than sic (6) years. He applied for probation but his application will not be considered if:1. he was convicted of subversion of any crime against

national security or public order2. he was previously convicted by final judgment of an offense

punished by imprisonment of not less than one (1) month and one (1) day and/or a fine of not less than P200.00

3. he was previously granted probation


4. he was previously granted parole

a. 1, 2 and 3b. 2, 3 and 4c. any of those listedd. 3, 4 and 1

15 Which of the following is an open correctional institution known to be the best and “prison without walls”

a. Sablyan Penal Colonyb. Iwahig Penal Colony c. San Ramon Prison and Penal Farmd. Davao Penal Farm

16 Among the following factors, which would be best determine the extent to which prison functions are subdivided?

a. operating programsb. adequacy of resourcesc. inmate population and size of the prison/jaild. number of prison staff

17 Who espoused four (4) correctional principles as follows: security and sanitary structure; systematic inspection, abolition of fees; and reformatory regime?

a. Jeremy Benthamb. John Howardc. Cesare Beccariad. James Wilson

18 Aside from the name, offense committed and the court imposing the sentence, what information about the alien offender should be reported to the Commissioner of Immigration?

a. his educational background and professionb. name of his wife and childrenc. his age, weight and heightd. his nationality and number of Alien Certificate of

Registration 19 What theory provides that criminal behavior is learned in

interaction with other persons in the process of communications?a. strain theoryb. psychoanalytic theoryc. social disorganization theoryd. differential association theory

20 How are habitual offenders who have been involved is prostitution, drugs, numbers and shoplifting called?

a. “Punk”b. “Cool”c. “The Life”d. “Square”


21 Who said the punishment should not be more secure than necessary to deter crime because excessive punishment is unjustified?

a. Chrales Goringb. Raffaeli Garafaloc. Robert Peeld. Jeremy Bentham

22 What idea was advocated by John Howard?a. Corporal punishment is more effective than corporal

punishmentb. Prisons should be under the control of the policec. Public labor by offenders should be abolishedd. Reformation will not occur inside penitentiaries

23 When can some prisoners have disciplinary authority over their co-inmates?

a. when they show :macho” imageb. when they are of senior age over those to be supervisedc. when they are good behavior, more technically skilled and

properly trainedd. when their length of actual prison stay is longer than the

others

24 How are inmates called when they are low intelligence or afflicted with psychological or physical disabilities and who have difficulty functioning within the prison society?

a. psychotic criminalsb. adult criminalsc. disorganized criminalsd. juvenile offenders

25 A convict is in a ________ if he is placed inside one (1) cell alone and without anybody to talk to or be seen with.

a. individual confinementb. corporal punishmentc. capital punishmentd. solitary confinement

26 After release from the jail pr prison, when does the parolee present himself to the Parole and Probation Officer.

a. at least one (1) month from releaseb. within three (3) months from releasec. at least three (3) weeks from released. within the period prescribed in the Release Document

27 One of the purposes of the Adult Probation Law is toa. promote the correction and rehabilitation of an offender

by providing him with personalized community based program

b. place of offender outside the [police power of the state


c. coordinate the workings of the agencies of t he criminal justice system

d. foster closer relationship between the offender and the judge who promulgated the probation officer

28 Is Mario qualified for probation id his prison term is arresto mayor?

a. Yes, his sentence is less than 6 years and 1 dayb. No, his sentence is 12 yearsc. No, his sentence is 8 yearsd. Yes, his sentence is 6 months

29 Under this correctional goal, the criminal is rendered physically unable to commit crime in the future.

a. retributionb. incapacitationc. deterrenced. rehabilitation

30 Who among the following is a provincial prisoner?a. a prisoner serving a term below six (6) yearsb. a prisoner serving a term of six (6) years and upc. a prisoner serving a term of six (6) months and one (1)

day to three (3) years d. prisoner serving a term of three (3) years and (1) day and

up

31 What theory in criminology states that criminals are totally responsible for their behaviors. The stress is more in the effect of their felonious act than upon the criminal himself?

a. classical theoryb. biological theoryc. positivist theoryd. physiological theory

32 Which two (2) of the following unusual offenders should be under the close supervision o f the Jail Physician?

1. mentally ill2. sex deviates3. infirm or sick4. escape-prone prisoners

a. 1 and 2 c. 3 and 4b. 1 and 3 d. 2 and 3

33 This theory in criminology states that criminals are totally responsible for their behaviors and the stress is more on the effect of their felonious act than upon the criminal himself.

a. positivist theoryb. physiological theoryc. biological theoryd. classical theory


34 What is the action of the court in case a probationer violated his/her probation conditions?

a. court revokes probation and probationer goes to prisonerb. court directs probationer to re-apply for probationc. court releases the probationer to the communityd. court orders the continuation of probation

35 You are legislator who would like to help in the resolution of the labeling problem of ex-convicts. Which of the following is the best legislative proposal to prepare?

a. to bill that would expunge all criminal records pertaining to all released prisoners

b. a bill that would penalize business establishments of offices which will not accept release prisoners as long as they qualify to the vacant position

c. a bill that would grant automatic absolute pardon to those who have served at least 90% of their sentenced

d. a bill that would grant automatic parole to those who have serves at least 80% of their sentence

36 These are four (4) concepts of lifestyle in prison. What concept is referred to when inmates aspire for leadership within the prison subculture and such positions and power in the prison society?

a. disorganized criminalsb. doing timec. jailingd. gleaning

37 How do inmates know that they have letters?a. an inmate-trustee delivers the letters to addresseesb. a list of mails for inmates is postedc. inmates with letters are called to the Jail Warden’s

Officed. A jailguard delivers the letters personally

38 Who introduces the Silent System in 1831 at the Auburn Prison?

a. James Wilsonb. Jeremy Benthamc. Elam Lyndsd. John Howards

39 Which model underscores the assumption that criminal behavior is caused by biological or psychological conditions that require treatment?

a. Medical modelb. Rehabilitation modelc. Reform modeld. Community model


40 Which office evaluates the prisoners’ fitness and qualification for the grant of pardon and parole

a. Department of Justiceb. Parole and Probation Administrationc. National Prosecution Serviced. Board of Pardon and Parole

41 Force is used only by correctional institutions to a. exact respectb. enforce disciplinec. show physical strength and powerd. perform assignments

42 The Supreme Court automatically reviews the cases of criminals convicted and meted out the penalty of

a. 12 years and 6 months and one dayb. life imprisonmentc. deathd. 6 years, one moth and one day

43 Presidential Decree No. 968 established the _______ System.a. Civilian Policeb. juvenile Justicec. Family Welfared. Adult Probatio


a. Rehabilitation centerb. Jailc. Half-way housed. Prison

45 The following are identified as correctional dilemmas EXCEPT:a. ambivalent correctional strategies and techniquesb. unclear statement of correctional missionc. government support for finding requirementsd. inadequacy of correctional personnel

46 The ________ theory in crime causation focuses on the criminal disorders, chromosome irregularity, and abnormal brain activity.

a. Psychological theoryb. Sociological theoryc. Biological theoryd. Political theory

47 Who said the “criminal acts are signals of distress, signals of failures, the spasms of struggles and convulsions of a sub-marginal human being trying to make it in our complex society with inadequate equipment and preparation?”


a. John Howardb. James Wilsonc. Karl Menningerd. Jeremy Bentham

48 The Parole and Probation Administration administers a _______ a corrections program.

a. institutional b. integrated c. community basedd. traditional

49 Changing criminals through non-punitive means is referred to as:a. retributionb. restitutionc. reformationd. rehabilitation

50 Alfonso Mata was sentenced to imprisonment on September 30, 2002. On October 5, 2002 the judge who promulgated the decision died. What is the effect of the judge’s death to the service of Alfonso’s sentence?

a. he will have to serve his sentenceb. his sentenced will be suspendedc. his sentenced will not be binding anymored. his sentenced will be reduced

51 Placido was convicted to a prison term of prison correctional will be qualify for probation.

a. Yes, his sentence is three (3) years and one (1) dayb. No, his sentenced is three (6) years and one (1) dayc. Yes, his sentence is less than six (6) years and one (1)

dayd. No, his sentence is more than six (6) years and one (1)

day

52 What was the system of money compensation in which a harm could be atoned for by a money payment to the injured party?

a lex talionesb wergildc wited fine

53 It is an arrangement where a prisoner goes out of the institution to attend educational classes.

a Vocational Program b Work Furloughc Guidance Counselingd Study Release


54 What the right to be tried in an ecclesiastical court during the middle age?

a. Inquisitionb. social contractc. benefits of the clergyd. secular prosecution

55 Prison work assignments are given to prisoners usually ________.a. at early morning hoursb. after recreational hoursc. before sleeping hoursd. during the middle hours of the day

56 Which among the following strategies should be developed in order to enhance corrections in the country?

a. development of clear vision, mission, objectivesb. management of correction efficientlyc. integration of correctional serviced. encouragement of private sector to assist corrections

57 This was period when concepts of liberalism, nationality, equality and individualism dominated social and political thinking in the 18th century in England.

a. Age of Reformb. Age of Discernmentc. Age of Rehabilitationd. Age of Reason

58 What was the classical theory provide?a. Criminal behavior is inherited and therefore could be

controlled by regulating the reproduction of familiesb. Criminal behavior us learned interaction with other

persons in a process of communicationc. Crime and delinquency are symptoms of social and penalty

disordersd. The basis for criminal liability is human free will and

the purpose of penalty is retribution

59 What correctional goal is referred to when the offender is rendered physically unable to commit crime in the future?

a. deterrence b. rehabilitationc. incapacitation d. retribution

60 Under the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of Prisoners which of the following are two (2) basic principles under rules of general application to prisoners?

1. There shall be no discrimination on grounds of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, birth or other status


2. It is necessary to respect that religious beliefs and moral precepts of the group to which a prisoners belongs

3. The treatment of prisoners should emphasize not their exclusion from the community, but their continuing part in it.

4. Unconvicted prisoners are presumed to be innocent and shall be treated as such


61 When does the punishment have a deterrent effect?a. punishment reduces the capacity of an individual to commit

a crimeb. Punishment is serious compared with the nature of offensec. Punishment disgraces the offender before the publicd. Punishment serves as an example to the public thus,

discouraging the commission

62 Who espoused the idea that criminality increases in proportion as one approach the equator?

a. Lombrosob. Ferric. Garofalod. Montesquieu

63 This is an investigation of behavior based on subjects’ responses to questions concerning activities in which they have engaged.

a. victimization studyb. social studyc. self-report studyd. criminological research

64 Antonio Lava was sentenced to serve a maximum term of imprisonment of not more than sic (6) years. He applied for probation but his application will not be considered if:

1. he was convicted of subversion of any crime against national security or public order

2. he was previously convicted by final judgment of an offense punished by imprisonment of not less than one (1) month and one (1) day and/or a fine of not less than P200.00

3. he was previously granted probation4. he was previously granted parole

a. 1, 2 and 3b. 2, 3 and 4c. any of those listed


d. 3, 4 and 1

65 Which of the following is an open correctional institution known to be the best and “prison without walls”

a. Sablyan Penal Colonyb. Iwahig Penal Colony c. San Ramon Prison and Penal Farmd. Davao Penal Farm

66 Among the following factors, which would be best determine the extent to which prison functions are subdivided?

a. operating programsb. adequacy of resourcesc. inmate population and size of the prison/jaild. number of prison staff

67 Who espoused four (4) correctional principles as follows: security and sanitary structure; systematic inspection, abolition of fees; and reformatory regime?

a. Jeremy Benthamb. John Howardc. Cesare Beccariad. James Wilson

68 Aside from the name, offense committed and the court imposing the sentence, what information about the alien offender should be reported to the Commissioner of Immigration?

a. his educational background and professionb. name of his wife and childrenc. his age, weight and heightd. his nationality and number of Alien Certificate of

Registration 69 What theory provides that criminal behavior is learned in

interaction with other persons in the process of communications?a. strain theoryb. psychoanalytic theoryc. social disorganization theoryd. differential association theory

70 How are habitual offenders who have been involved is prostitution, drugs, numbers and shoplifting called?

a. “Punk”b. “Cool”c. “The Life”d. “Square”

71 Who said the punishment should not be more secure than necessary to deter crime because excessive punishment is unjustified?

a. Chrales Goringb. Raffaeli Garafalo


c. Robert Peeld. Jeremy Bentham

72 What idea was advocated by John Howard?a. Corporal punishment is more effective than corporal

punishmentb. Prisons should be under the control of the policec. Public labor by offenders should be abolishedd. Reformation will not occur inside penitentiaries

73 When can some prisoners have disciplinary authority over their co-inmates?

a. when they show :macho” imageb. when they are of senior age over those to be supervisedc. when they are good behavior, more technically skilled and

properly trainedd. when their length of actual prison stay is longer than the

others

74 How are inmates called when they are low intelligence or afflicted with psychological or physical disabilities and who have difficulty functioning within the prison society?

a. psychotic criminalsb. adult criminalsc. disorganized criminalsd. juvenile offenders



76 After release from the jail pr prison, when does the parolee present himself to the Parole and Probation Officer.

a. at least one (1) month from releaseb. within three (3) months from releasec. at least three (3) weeks from released. within the period prescribed in the Release Document

77 One of the purposes of the Adult Probation Law is toa. promote the correction and rehabilitation of an offender

by providing him with personalized community based programb. place of offender outside the [police power of the statec. coordinate the workings of the agencies of t he criminal

justice systemd. foster closer relationship between the offender and the

judge who promulgated the probation officer


78 Is Mario qualified for probation if his prison term is arresto mayor?

a. Yes, his sentence is less than 6 years and 1 dayb. No, his sentence is 12 yearsc. No, his sentence is 8 yearsd. Yes, his sentence is 6 months

79 Under this correctional goal, the criminal is rendered physically unable to commit crime in the future.

a. retributionb. incapacitationc. deterrenced. rehabilitation

80 Who among the following is a provincial prisoner?a. a prisoner serving a term below six (6) yearsb. a prisoner serving a term of six (6) years and upc. a prisoner serving a term of six (6) months and one (1)

day to three (3) years d. prisoner serving a term of three (3) years and (1) day and

up

81 What theory in criminology states that criminals are totally responsible for their behaviors. The stress is more in the effect of their felonious act than upon the criminal himself?

a. classical theoryb. biological theoryc. positivist theoryd. physiological theory

82 Which two (2) of the following unusual offenders should be under the close supervision o f the Jail Physician?

5. mentally ill6. sex deviates7. infirm or sick8. escape-prone prisoners


83 This theory in criminology states that criminals are totally responsible for their behaviors and the stress is more on the effect of their felonious act than upon the criminal himself.

a. positivist theoryb. physiological theoryc. biological theoryd. classical theory


84 What is the action of the court in case a probationer violated his/her probation conditions?

a. court revokes probation and probationer goes to prisonerb. court directs probationer to re-apply for probationc. court releases the probationer to the communityd. court orders the continuation of probation

85 You are legislator who would like to help in the resolution of the labeling problem of ex-convicts. Which of the following is the best legislative proposal to prepare?

a. to bill that would expunge all criminal records pertaining to all released prisoners

b. a bill that would penalize business establishments of offices which will not accept release prisoners as long as they qualify to the vacant position

c. a bill that would grant automatic absolute pardon to those who have served at least 90% of their sentenced

d. a bill that would grant automatic parole to those who have serves at least 80% of their sentence

86 These are four (4) concepts of lifestyle in prison. What concept is referred to when inmates aspire for leadership within the prison subculture and such positions and power in the prison society?

a. disorganized criminalsb. doing timec. jailingd. gleaning

87 How do inmates know that they have letters?a. an inmate-trustee delivers the letters to addresseesb. a list of mails for inmates is postedc. inmates with letters are called to the Jail Warden’s

Officed. A jailguard delivers the letters personally

88 Who introduces the Silent System in 1831 at the Auburn Prison?

a. James Wilsonb. Jeremy Benthamc. Elam Lyndsd. John Howards

89 What agency of the government has the general supervision and control of all national prisons?

a. Correctionb. Bureau of correctionc. Bureau of prisonsd. None of the above



a. Rehabilitation centerb. Jailc. Half-way housed. Prison



92 What is the most extensive and severe law that prescribes harsh punishment in the Philippines promulgated in 1433?

a. Hammurabi’s codeb. Revised penal codec. Code of kalantiaod. Maragtas code

93 What is refers to a brutal punishment or employing physical force to intimidate a delinquent inmate?

a. Corporal punishmentb. Solitary confinementc. Death penaltyd. Human degradation

94 What is the color designation of uniform in the minimum security prison located at new bilibid prison?

a. blueb. redc. brownd. orange

95 What is the classification of prisoner, whose sentenced is from one day to three years?

a. insular prisonerb. provincial prisonerc. city prisonerd. municipal prisoner

96 What group of prisoners can be reasonably trusted and work without the presence of guard?

a. super maximum securityb. maximum security c. medium securityd. minimum security


97 What special group of prisoners is incorrigible and highly dangerous according to the degree of security?


98 What group of insular prisoners that can be trusted in open conditions?


99 What is refers to the offender who is committed to prison and serve a penalty after conviction.

a. detention prisonb. prisoner for safekeepingc. sentenced prisonerd. insular prisoner

100 Persons who are kept for investigation or awaits trial and preliminary hearings is referred to as:

a. detention prisonerb. prisoner for safekeepingc. sentenced prisond. insular prisoner

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