Question 1

What is the Zimmer Amendment?

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Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 7

Describe the Mothers and Infants Nursing Together (MINT) program.

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Question 8

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

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Question 9

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

Why are many drug interventions called peer support?

Accepted Answer

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 14

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

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Question 15

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 19

Religion has never played a significant role in American prisons.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

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

Exam 10: Correctional Administration and Prison Programming

What is the Zimmer Amendment?

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

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

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

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

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

Describe the Mothers and Infants Nursing Together (MINT) program.

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

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.

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?

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

Why are many drug interventions called peer support?

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

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?

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

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?

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

Religion has never played a significant role in American prisons.

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