The Prisoner World MCQs

The Prisoner World MCQs

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1: According to Gordon Hawkins, who are “the other prisoners” in correctional institutions?

A.   Family members of inmates

B.   Prison wardens

C.   The surrounding community

D.   Correctional officers

2: Which rank of correctional officer oversees a certain number of line officers who have close daily contact with inmates?

A.   Lieutenants

B.   Sergeants

C.   Officers

D.   Supervisors

3: Which individual is likely to be incarcerated in a jail?

A.   Alice is serving 3 years for a drug conviction.

B.   Sam is serving time for a felony conviction.

C.   Michelle has been convicted of murder and is serving a 10-year sentence.

D.   Gavin has been formerly charged with a crime and is awaiting trial.

4: What types of challenges do mentally ill offenders pose to prison officials?

A.   They are more emotionally needy than other inmate populations.

B.   They account for over half of all prison problems.

C.   They are in need of heavy sedation in order to be considered manageable.

D.   They are often violent and serving a lengthy sentence.

5: In which case did the Supreme Court conclude that “lawful incarceration brings about the necessary withdrawal or limitation of many privileges and rights?”

A.   Estelle v. Gamble

B.   Wolff v. McDonnell

C.   Price v. Johnston

D.   Procunier v. Martinez

6: The number of inmates serving time in solitary confinement has coincided with ______.

A.   The concept of supermax prisons

B.   The rising crime rate

C.   Capital punishment

D.   Inmate litigation

7: Institutions have traditionally dealt with gangs in prisons by using segregation and isolation.

A.   True

B.   False

8: Which court case gave prisoners the right to get advance written notice of charges?

A.   Estelle v. Gamble

B.   Wolff v. McDonnell

C.   Price v. Johnston

D.   Procunier v. Martinez

A.   Deliberate indifference

B.   Slave of the state

C.   Prisonization

D.   Iron curtain

10: In inmate culture, “don’t break your word” pertains to the informal rule of don’t ______.

A.   Trust the corrections officers

B.   Weaken

C.   Quarrel with fellow inmates

D.   Exploit other inmates

11: Which correctional officers would monitor inmates engaged in physical exercise and socialization outside?

A.   Yard officers

B.   Field officers

C.   Tower guards

D.   Cell-block officers

12: Under the inmates’ informal code, what does it mean when an inmate cautions, “don’t be a sucker” they mean “don’t interfere with other inmates’ business.”

A.   True

B.   False

13: What is considered the “big bitch” of correctional officers?

A.   Inmates do not give officers the level of respect they deserve.

B.   Shiftwork and working weekends and holidays

C.   Inmates seem to be gaining power while officers are losing power.

D.   Officer pay is substantially below that of police officers.

14: Which of the following includes prison therapeutic communities, vocational training, and behavioral treatment?

A.   Correctional programming

B.   Prisoners’ constitutional rights

C.   Halfway houses

D.   Capital punishment

15: An inmate’s involuntary loss of freedom is considered to be which “pain of imprisonment?”

A.   Deprivation of liberty

B.   Deprivation of autonomy

C.   Deprivation of security

D.   Deprivation of volition

16: _____ is defined as one who works in a prison or jail and supervises correctional inmates.

A.   Correctional Officer

B.   Reliability

C.   All of these

D.   None of these

17: _____ is known as inmates age 55 and up.

A.   Geriatric Inmates

B.   Has used alcohol

C.   Is fatigued

D.   None of these

18: Is hands-Off Doctrine the notion held by courts that prison administrators should be given free rein to run their prisons as they deem best?

A.   True

B.   False

19: _____ is the belief by courts that inmates have certain constitutional rights that the courts must see are upheld and that prison administrators must obey.

A.   Hands-On Doctrine

B.   Human trafficking

C.   All of these

D.   None of these

20: _____ is defined as in Wolff v. McDonnell (1973), the Supreme Court stated that there is no iron curtain between the Constitution and the prisons of the United States; in sum, inmates have rights.

A.   “Iron Curtain” Speech

B.   Preventive patrols

C.   Officer-initiated contacts

D.   All of these

21: _____ is known as in prison jargon, the sense that things “just don’t look right.”

A.   JDLR

B.   Criminal

C.   Civil

D.   None of these

22: Is prisoners’ Rights the collective body of rights given to inmates by the courts, in such areas as conditions of confinement, communications (mail and letters), access to law library and medical facilities, and so on?

A.   True

B.   False

23: _____ is the process whereby an inmate becomes socialized into the culture and social life of prison society so that adjusting to the norms of outside society becomes difficult.

A.   Prisonization

B.   Warrant

C.   Arraignment

D.   All of these

24: _____ is defined as providing services to, and supervision for, paroled inmates who are about to reintegrate into the community.

A.   Reentry And Aftercare

B.   Lashing

C.   Amputation

D.   All of these

A.   “Slave Of The State”

B.   Illegal Violation

C.   Purposeful Violation

D.   None of these

26: Is solitary Confinement a form of imprisonment in which an inmate is isolated from any human contact (except for members of prison staff)?

A.   True

B.   False