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A ____________ is a place that erects barriers to social interchange with the world at large. |
| | A) | Open Institution |
| | B) | Closed Institution |
| | C) | Total Institution |
| | D) | Outside cells |
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Escape through the window or wall of ___________ would place an inmate in the prison yard. |
| | A) | Outside Cells |
| | B) | Inside Cells |
| | C) | Maximum-security prison |
| | D) | Cell Block |
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The most recent innovation in high-security facilities, a highly restrictive, high-custody housing unit that isolates inmates from the general population and from each other is known as: |
| | A) | Medium-security Prison |
| | B) | Supermax Prison |
| | C) | Inside Cells |
| | D) | Maximum-security Prison |
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A variation of the minimum-security plan that serves as a “prison without walls” is known as: |
| | A) | Open Institution |
| | B) | Closed Institution |
| | C) | Inside Cells |
| | D) | Outside Cells |
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The top of the administrative hierarchy of any department of corrections is the _______________, who works directly under the governor to establish policy, shape institutional procedures, negotiate annual budgetary allotments, and make major personnel decisions. |
| | A) | Warden |
| | B) | Correctional Officer |
| | C) | Deputy Warden |
| | D) | Commissioner of Corrections |
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____________ is the process through which the educational, vocational, treatment and custodial needs of the offender are determined. |
| | A) | Orientation |
| | B) | Diagnostics |
| | C) | Classification |
| | D) | Reception |
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The central receiving institution where all felony offenders sentenced to a term of imprisonment are committed for orientation and classification are known as: |
| | A) | Classification Center |
| | B) | Treatment Team |
| | C) | Vocational Program |
| | D) | Reception Center |
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_______________ serve many of the humanitarian and rehabilitative needs of the offender, and are also related to the successful economic functioning of the institution. |
| | A) | Recreational Programs |
| | B) | Work Programs |
| | C) | Academic Programs |
| | D) | Treatment Programs |
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Any item that can be used to break a rule of the institution or to assist in escape is commonly known as: |
| | A) | Prison contraband |
| | B) | “keeplock” |
| | C) | Disturbances |
| | D) | None of these |
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Which of the following is NOT a reason that conjugal visits are promoted in prisons. |
| | A) | A means of reducing same-gender sexual contacts in prison |
| | B) | Reduction of the spread of HIV/AIDS within the prison population |
| | C) | Raising inmate morale |
| | D) | Maintaining healthy family ties |
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The socializing process by which the inmate learns the rules and regulations of the institution and the informal rules, values, customs, and general culture of the penitentiary is known as: |
| | A) | Social interaction |
| | B) | Prison community |
| | C) | Socialization |
| | D) | Prisonization |
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The “inmate code” refers to: |
| | A) | The unwritten rules of the prison subculture |
| | B) | The formal rules enforced by the prison personnel |
| | C) | Informal rules suggested by the warden |
| | D) | None of these |
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An in-depth report, written in 1975 by ___________, implied that, with few and isolated exceptions, “nothing works” in the effort to rehabilitate convicted offenders. |
| | A) | James Robison |
| | B) | Gerald Smith |
| | C) | Robert Martinson |
| | D) | Governor’s Special Committee on Criminal Offenders |
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As a first-time offender, convicted of a nonviolent crime such as burglary or a drug sale, the judge may decide to impose one of the more recent innovations in correctional treatment. A _______________ is a 3-6 month regimen of military drill, drug treatment, physical exercise, hard labor, and academic work in lieu of a formal prison sentence. |
| | A) | Shortened Sentence |
| | B) | Parole |
| | C) | Probation |
| | D) | Shock Incarceration |
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