Exam 10: Correctional Administration and Prison Programming

The head administrator of a prison is the warden.

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

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.

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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.

Which of the following is true regarding requesting religious diets?

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?

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

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

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