Deck 10: Correctional Administration and Prison Programming

Question 1

What serves as the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) headquarters and is overseen and managed by the director of the BOP?

A) Administrative Office
B) Division Office
C) Federal Office
D) Central Office

Answer 1

Central Office

Question 2

What division is responsible for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) financial and facility management and is responsible for budget development and execution, finance, procurement and property, and the inmate trust fund program?

A) Central
B) Administration
C) Headquarter
D) Executive

Answer 2

Administration

Question 3

Which division coordinates the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) personnel matters, including pay and leave administration, incentive awards, retirement, work-life programs, background investigations, adverse and disciplinary actions, and performance evaluations?

A) Executive Management
B) Human Resource Management
C) Occupational Review Board
D) Examination Management

Answer 3

Human Resource Management

Question 4

Which division manages the Federal Bureau of Prisons literacy and occupational training programs, parenting programs, and adult continuing education activities, which are formal instructional classes designed to increase inmates' general knowledge in a wide variety of subjects, such as writing and math?

A) Industries, Education, and Vocational Training
B) Office of General Counsel
C) Human Resource Management
D) Information, Policy, and Public Affairs

Question 5

What division of the Federal Bureau of Prisons oversees Federal Prison Industries (FPI), one of the most important correctional programs operated by the BOP?

A) Correctional Programs
B) Industries, Education, and Vocational Training
C) Human Resource Management
D) Information, Policy, and Public Affairs

Question 6

Who appoints a director to head the National Institute of Corrections (NIC)?

A) U.S. Attorney General
B) President of the United States
C) U.S. Intelligence Director
D) Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Question 7

What provides training, technical assistance, information services, and policy/program development assistance to federal, state, and local corrections agencies?

A) Central Office
B) UNICOR
C) National Institute of Corrections
D) Federal Prison Industries

Question 8

What type of prisons can be considered more local in their orientation, though they are, in fact, a unique model of correctional system unto themselves?

A) private
B) public
C) federal
D) juvenile

Question 9

Which of the following is true regarding the Philadelphia Prison System (PPS)?

A) Today it offers a full range of services to offenders in its care system.
B) This system formally developed as a city-run prison system during the 1930s.
C) It has its roots in the initial Quaker movements when the Walnut Street Jail was established.
D) all of these

Question 10

What type of warden will require assistant wardens and other high-ranking staff to attend at least one meal a day with or around inmates in the facility?

A) decentralized
B) centralized
C) reactive
D) proactive

Question 11

Tight forms of control in the communication process that ensure that decision-making power is reserved for only a small group of people is characteristic of what kind of management?

A) centralized
B) decentralized
C) participative
D) holding pattern

Question 12

What type of management occurs when the authority and responsibility of management personnel are divided and distributed among various levels of the supervisory chain so that each level of supervision may make decisions that correspond to the problems that confront it at its particular level of management?

A) holding pattern
B) participative
C) decentralized
D) centralized

Question 13

What type of management is best used in situations of serious emergency when institutional safety and security are under grave threat or danger, but directly involves the decision makers in the immediate response that is necessary?

A) decentralized
B) participatory
C) centralized
D) transparent

Question 14

The use of what type of decision-making is more appropriate to strategic planning?

A) centralized
B) decentralized
C) participatory
D) transparent

Question 15

What type of planning involves long-term goals and objectives, usually spanning a period of 1 year or more?

A) transparent
B) tactical
C) strategic
D) calculated

Question 16

What type of management is best utilized in situations where routine decision-making takes place and where there is more direct interaction between a particular level of management and the frontline staff who do the work of the agency?

A) centralized
B) transparent
C) decentralized
D) strategic

Question 17

What type of management approach is the best when attempting to maximize input from informal groups as well as the prison subculture (both inmate and staff subculture)?

A) decentralized
B) participatory
C) centralized
D) strategic

Question 18

Which entity advocated for the professionalization of correctional officers, and states began to adopt the standards set by that organization?

A) Federal Bureau of Prisons
B) American Correctional Association
C) American Prison Society
D) American Bar Association

Question 19

What is the active process of administrators to circumvent faulty information that is disseminated among staff or inmates and has the potential to cause unrest or disharmony throughout the facility?

A) planning control
B) disturbance control
C) armed disturbance control
D) rumor control

Question 20

Which of the following are specialized teams trained to respond to, contain, and neutralize inmate disturbances in prisons?

A) disturbance control
B) special operations response
C) armed disturbance control
D) mediation control

Question 21

Which of the following are teams designed to deal with disturbances that have escalated to matters of life and death?

A) disturbance control
B) rumor control
C) armed disturbance control
D) special operations response

Question 22

During times of crisis, prison administrators must be sure that emergency response plans include mutually agreed-upon cooperative plans with outside agencies, particularly ______.

A) probation agencies
B) local law enforcement
C) parole agencies
D) federal law enforcement

Question 23

Which view claims that society has saved untold millions due to the lack of recidivism of inmates who have obtained employment and/or education?

A) reformed work services
B) minimal services
C) work/education reform
D) service reform

Question 24

Which view contends that inmates are entitled to no more than the bare minimum that is required by law?

A) minimal services
B) work/education reform
C) reduced reform
D) minimal work

Question 25

Which of the following is not a common medical issue of female inmates?

A) tuberculosis
B) diabetes
C) HIV/AIDS
D) cancer

Question 26

As per federal law, the BOP is not allowed to use government funds to facilitate the performance of ______.

A) dialysis
B) an abortion
C) biopsies
D) chemotherapy

Question 27

What early religious group were largely behind the availability of education to inmates?

A) Quakers
B) Catholics
C) Mormons
D) Christians

Question 28

During the 1960s and 1970s, what act was the primary impetus behind correctional education becoming a priority within many prison systems?

A) Title IV of the Higher Education Act
B) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
C) College Opportunity and Affordability Act
D) Adult Education Act of 1964

Question 29

What entity was created to provide national leadership on issues related to correctional education, and offers technical assistance to states, local schools, and correctional institutions and shares information on correctional education?

A) Windham School District
B) Department of Education
C) National Office of Educational Standards
D) Office of Correctional Education

Question 30

______ Grants are need-based federal monies set aside for persons who pursue a college education.

A) Pell
B) Bell
C) Zimmer
D) Will

Question 31

The two most common routes to achieving a basic secondary (high school level) education in prison are the completion of the GED or the ______.

A) College Bound Exam (CBE)
B) High School Equivalency Test (HiSET)
C) High School Diploma Test (HSDT)
D) College Entry Exam (CBE)

Question 32

What type of orientation is the second type of prison work for inmates?

A) maintaining social skills
B) keeps inmates productive
C) maintaining the function of the prison itself
D) industrial or vocational

Question 33

During which decade did Federal Prison Industries (FPI) change its name to UNICOR Inc. as a means of creating a new civilian and corporate-based identity?

A) 2000s
B) 1990s
C) 1980s
D) 1970s

Question 34

What study demonstrated that UNICOR successfully prepared inmates for release and provided long-term benefits to society?

A) Post-Release Employment Project
B) UNICOR Release Project
C) FPI Employment Release Study
D) Post-Release UNICOR Project

Question 35

In ______, the prison system continues to operate under a directive to be as self-sufficient as fiscally possible while meeting all constitutional requirements.

A) Florida
B) California
C) Texas
D) New York

Question 36

Which Texas entity provides offenders with marketable job skills to help reduce recidivism?

A) Work Against Recidivism (WAR) Program
B) Windham School District
C) Texas Correctional Industries
D) Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) Certification Program

Question 37

Which of the following entity is a secondary education program in Texas prisons?

A) Work Against Recidivism (WAR) Program
B) Windham School District
C) Texas Correctional Industries
D) Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) Certification Program

Question 38

Which of the following is a partnership between the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a private company that allows the company to employ offenders?

A) Work Against Recidivism (WAR) Program
B) Windham School District
C) Texas Correctional Industries
D) Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) Certification Program

Question 39

Which of the following is a Texas program specifically targeted to successfully reintegrate offenders into society?

A) Work Against Recidivism (WAR) Program
B) Windham School District
C) Texas Correctional Industries
D) Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) Certification Program

Question 40

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) estimate that 60% to ______ of inmates in the nation's correctional population have used drugs at some point in their lives.

A) 99%
B) 90%
C) 69%
D) 83%

Question 41

Why are many drug interventions called peer support?

A) in many cases, facilitators are former friends of the offenders
B) in many cases, facilitators are former therapists
C) in many cases, facilitators are also prior alcohol or drug abusers
D) all of these

Question 42

In many prisons, ______ are facilitated by other inmates who have progressed to an advanced or senior level of involvement in the program.

A) peer support groups
B) detoxification
C) intensive inpatient treatment
D) therapeutic communities

Question 43

Aside from education and employment, what is perhaps the most commonly needed form of inmate programming?

A) religion
B) recreation
C) effective drug treatment
D) alternative therapy

Question 44

The ______ Amendment restricted the purchase of several types of weight lifting equipment within the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

A) Anderson
B) Williams
C) Martin
D) Zimmer

Question 45

Due to ______ problems within many states, recreational opportunities in many prisons are largely funded by the inmates themselves.

A) safety
B) confidence
C) budgetary
D) regulatory

Question 46

Which of the following are unique activities used in therapeutic recreation programs?

A) relaxation therapy
B) animal-assisted therapy
C) humor therapy
D) all of these

Question 47

Which of the following is true regarding requesting religious diets?

A) Legitimate requests based on recognized religious tenets must be accommodated.
B) Any requests based on recognized religious tenets must be accommodated.
C) All requests based on any form of religious tenet must be accommodated.
D) Religious requests do not have to be accommodated and are solely up to the discretion of prison administration.

Question 48

Professionals who provide pastoral care to those who are imprisoned as well as to correctional facility staff and their families when requested are known as ______.

A) specialized priests
B) correctional bishops
C) correctional chaplains
D) correctional deities

Question 49

According to a preliminary evaluation of the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, a faith-based prisoner reform program, results showed that program graduates were______ less likely to be rearrested and ______ less likely to be reincarcerated during a 2-year follow-up period.

A) 20%; 30%
B) 30%; 40%
C) 40%; 50%
D) 50%; 60%

Question 50

The head office of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is known as the Northern Office.

Question 51

The Administration Division is responsible for the Federal Bureau of Prisons's (BOP) financial and facility management. This division is responsible for budget development and execution, finance, procurement and property, and the inmate trust fund program.

Question 52

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) heads the National Institute of Corrections (NIC).

Question 53

The head administrator of a prison is the warden.

Question 54

Centralized management occurs when the authority and responsibility of management personnel are divided and distributed among various levels of the supervisory chain so that each level of supervision may make decisions that correspond to the problems that confront it at its particular level of management.

Question 55

Prior to the 1980s, prisons tended to be in rural regions and hire staff from within the local area.

Question 56

The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals (1973) has indicated that all new correctional staff members should have at least 100 hr of orientation during their first week on the job and at least 120 hr additional training during their first year.

Question 57

Armed disturbance control teams are specialized teams trained to respond to, contain, and neutralize inmate disturbances in prisons.

Question 58

According to the BOP, female inmates should have access to medical and social services related to pregnancy, birth control, child placement, and abortion.

Question 59

The BOP provides a community residential program called Mothers and Infants Nurturing Together (MINT) for women who are pregnant at the time of commitment.

Question 60

The origin of labor in prisons can be traced back to Australian penal colonies of the 11th and 13th centuries.

Question 61

In Texas, the prison system continues to operate under a directive to be as self-sufficient as fiscally possible while meeting all constitutional requirements.

Question 62

In Texas, the Work Against Recidivism (WAR) program is a partnership between the TDCJ and a private company, which allows the company to employ offenders who have volunteered to be a part of the program.

Question 63

Every state correctional system offers some variety of drug treatment programming.

Question 64

Of the 20 states that admit the most people to treatment per 100,000, 19 had incarceration rates below the national average.

Question 65

In America's early colonial jails as well as the Pennsylvania and Auburn system prisons, physical exercise was provided to inmates as part of the daily regimen.

Question 66

The Zimmer Amendment restricted the purchase of several types of weight lifting equipment within the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Question 67

Religion has never played a significant role in American prisons.

Question 68

Prisons around the United States do not accommodate any dietary modifications based on religion.

Question 69

Correctional chaplains are now recognized as integral professionals in the field of corrections.

Question 70

What is the Health Services Division of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) responsible for?

Question 71

What is the National Institute of Corrections (NIC)?

Question 72

Why is having a separate department of corrections that oversees prisons is seen as a more effective means of managing prison systems?

Question 73

What is rumor control?

Question 74

What is the rationale and findings for providing funding for inmate educational pursuits developed from a Rand Corporation study that was commissioned by the Department of Justice?

Question 75

What is the purpose of the Work Against Recidivism program?

Question 76

What is the best-known drug treatment peer support group program? What is this program based on?

Question 77

Discuss the recreational programming of Washington State's Department of Corrections.

Question 78

What is the Zimmer Amendment?

Question 79

What is the American Correctional Chaplains Association (ACCA)? What do they provide?

Question 80

Describe the eight service divisions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).