INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTION 📝

1. A deduction of sentence given to prisoner in recognition of his good conduct or good behavior.

A. Parole

B. Good Conduct Time Allowance✔

C. Good Conduct Pass

D. All of these

2. A person convicted and sentenced to serve for not more than six months is classified as –

A. Municipal prisoner✔

B. City prisoner

C. Insular prisoner

D. Colonist

3. A continuing application of the treatment program.

A. Diversification

B. Execution of the treatment program

C. Reclassification✔

D. None of these

4.A finally convicted able–bodied inmates maybe required to work for at least how many hours in a day?

A. 4 hours

B. 6 hours

C. 8 hours ✔

D. none of these

5. An inmate maybe excused from mandatory labor if he or she is...

A. over 55 years of age

B. over 60 years of age✔

C. over 65 years of age

D. over 70 years of age

6. An open institution usually a penal farm or camp

A. Minimum Security Institution✔

B. Medium Security Institution

D. None of these

7. First to use punitive imprisonment

A. England✔

B. United States of America

C. Germany

D. None of these

8. A prisoner sentenced for more than three years is under the jurisdiction of the

A. City Jail

B. District Jail

C. Provincial Jail

D. Bureau of Corrections✔

9. Detention prisoners who are awaiting judgment or trial of their case are under the supervision and
control of

A. Provincial Jails

B. National Bilibid Prisons

C. Bureau of Corrections

D. Bureau of Jail Management and Penology✔

10. It is an institution intended to detain or house political offenders.

A. Iwahig Penal farm

B. Sablayan Prison Farm

C. Davao Penal Farm

D. San Ramon Prison and Penal farm✔

11. Intelligence and personality test are administered by

A. Psychologist ✔

B. Psychiatrist

C.Correctional officer

D. Social worker

12. For security purposes, what is the minimum required ratio in escorting an offender when in transit?
A. 12+2

B. 12+1

C. 11+1✔

D. 11+2

13. It exercise supervision and control over provincial jails.

A. BJMP

B. Bureau of Corrections

C. Provincial Government✔

D. Parole and Probation Administration

14. It insures a more careful selection of the institution in which the prisoner is to be confined.

A. Courts

B. Quarantine Unit

C. Correction

D. Reception and Diagnostic Center✔

15. The ideal ratio on escort is ____ prison guard for every ____ number of inmates.

A. 12

B. 14

C. 17✔

D. 112

16. The basis of this old school of penology is the human free will.

A. Penology School

B. Classical School✔

C. Neo classical

D. Positivist

17. It is the primary objective of custodial and security division.

A. To prevent riots

B. To implement discipline

C. To help in reformation of prisoners✔

D. Security
18. How long is the duration of stay in the viewing of the deceased relative of an inmate?

A. 2 hours

B. 3 hours✔

C. 6 hours

D. 12 hours

19. A municipal warden must have the minimum rank of.

A. SJO1

B. J/INSP✔

C. J/SINSP

D. J/CINSP

20. A person who is detained for the violation of law or ordinance and has not been convicted is a -

A. Detention Prisoner ✔

B. Provincial Prisoner

C. Municipal Prisoner

D. City Prisoner

21. A person who is sentenced to serve a prison term of over three

(3) years is a _________________.

A. Municipal prisoner

B. Detention prisoner

C. City prisoner

D. National or Insular prisoner✔

22. Clinical services geared toward improving inmates behavior are administered by

A. Psychiatrist

B. Social Worker

C. Psychologist ✔

D. None of these

23. How many times counting of prisoner be made within 24-hours?

A. At least 3 times

B. At least 4 times✔
C. At least 2 times

D. At least 5 times

24. Ideal number of days for proper classification of newly convicted offenders at the RDC?

A. 45 days

B. 30 days

C. 55 days✔

D. 15 days

25. Prisoners whose sentences are more than three years to capital punishment are considered

A. municipal prisoners

B. provincial prisoners

C. city prisoners

D. insular prisoners✔

26. Refers to those who are confined in correctional facilities awaiting verdict in their cases

A. Prisoner

B. Detainees✔

C. Probationer

D. Offender

27. The law creating the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) is

A. RA 8551

B. RA 9165

C. RA 6975✔

D. RA 4890

28. An_____ program employs prisoners in various product or good producing tasks.

A. Agricultural

B. Industrial

C. Operational ✔

D. Administrative

29. Force is used only by correctional institution to:

A. exact respect
B. perform assignments

C. enforce discipline✔

D. show physical strength and power

30. An inmate maybe transferred by the Prison Director upon the recommendation of the ____
concerned to another prison facility to bring said inmate closer to family or as part of his rehabilitation
program.

A. President

B. Superintendent✔

C. Prison Guard

D. DOJ Secretary

31. In admission process of the inmates, several procedures will be followed including the registration of
all information of about the inmate. The register shall contain the following except?

A. date of admission

B. reason for commitment

C. sentence

D. name of the authority✔

32. The punishment which affords the society or the individual who was wronged, the opportunity to
impose upon the offender such suitable punishment as may be enforced

A. Reformation

B. Retribution✔

C. Expiation

D. Deterrence

33. Giving punishment to a person so to serve as an example to others is the theory of

A. Self-defense

B. Social defense

C. Exemplary ✔

D. Equality

34. Infant born in prison may be allowed to stay with sentenced serving mother for-

A. 1 year ✔

B. 2 year
C. 3 years

D. 4 years

35. It prison management, force is used only by correctional institutions or correctional officers in order
to,

A. Exact respect

B. Enforce discipline during mass jailbreaks or riots✔

C. Show physical strength and power

D. Perform assignments

36. Operation conducted by the BJMP where a prisoner maybe checked at anytime.

A. Search and seizure

B. Confiscation

C. Inspection

D. Operation greyhound✔

37. Person who are deemed instrumental on the reformation of prisoners due to their daily contact with
inmates?

A. Chaplain

B. Warden

C. Psychologist

D. Prison guards✔

38. A person convicted to serve 6 years imprisonment would be classified as what kind of prisoner?

A. Municipal prisoner

B. Insular prisoner✔

C. Provincial prisoner

D. Detention prisoner

39. He was the first superintendent of Elmira Reformatory.

A. John Howard

B. Zebulon Brockway✔

C. John Augustus

D. Teodulo Natividad
40. It is given to prisoners who have returned to their places of confinement within 48 hours after a
calamity.

A. Good conduct time allowance

B. Special time allowance for loyalty✔

C. Visitation privileges

D.Good treatment allowance

40. It is given to prisoners who have returned to their places of confinement within 48 hours after a
calamity.

A. Good conduct time allowance

B. Special time allowance for loyalty✔

C. Visitation privileges

D.Good treatment allowance

41. One of the following is an admission procedure which involves the frisking of the prisoner.

A. Identification

B. Searching✔

C. Briefing/Orientation D. Minimum security prisoners

42. The features of the prison system were confinement of the prisoners in these is cells days and night.

A. Pennsylvania ✔

B. Mammertime

C. Auburn

D. Alcatraz

43. Pending the submission of the investigation report, the defendant may be allowed on temporary
liberty through.

A. Release on recognizance ✔

B. Bail

C. Manifestation

D. Cash bond

44. The Bureau of Corrections which is headed by the Director of Corrections is under the

A. Department of Justice✔

B. Department of Interior and Local Government

D.None of these

45. If you have committed a crime and found guilty with it, then the court decided that you will be
serving a sentence of six months and one day. According to your sentence, on what category of prisoner
do you belong?

A. Municipal prisoner

B. City jail prisoner

C. Provincial prisoner✔

D. Sentenced prisoner

46. Institution for the confinement of persons who are awaiting final disposition of their criminal cases
and also for the service of those convicted and punished with shorter sentences, usually up to three
years.

A. Lock-up

B. Ordinary Jail

C. Jail ✔

D. Work house

47. Introduces profit margin and religion congregate loan with efficient discipline permitted to set up
factory style working conditions and become the first prison to achieve a profitable work program.

A. Pennsylvania

B. Auburn✔

C. Walnut street jail

D. Sins sing prison

48. A security camp that houses prisoners whose sentence are 20 years and above, life termers or those
under capital punishment, those with pending cases, those under disciplinary punishment, those whose
cases are on appeal, and those under detention;

A. Maximum Security Camp✔

B. Medium Security Camp

C. Minimum Security Camp

D. None of these

49. A correctional institution that has the authority to detain convicted offenders for longer or extended
period of time, including those who are waiting their death sentence.

A. Halfway house
B. Farm house

C. Jail

D. Prison✔

50. A satellite unit of NBP that houses the Mediums Security Risk prisoner located near the Reception
and Diagnostic Center (RDC) and Youth Rehabilitation Center.

A. Camp Sampaguita ✔

B. Camp Bukang Liwayway

C. Camp Abelon

D. Camp Abubakar

51. A ___, also called a 'block' or 'isolation cell', used to separate unruly, dangerous, or vulnerable
prisoners from the general population, also sometimes used as punishment.

A. Segregation Unit ✔

B. Reception Unit

C. Quarantine Unit

D. Cell 45

52. It is regarded as the most important program that aids in the rehabilitation or prisoners

A. Recreational program

B. Religious program

C. Educational program ✔

D. Employment of prisoners

53. Classification of an inmate as to entitlement who has served imprisonment with good conduct for a
period equivalent to 1/5 of the maximum term or of his prison sentence or those who served 7 years in
the case of those who was meted with the penalty of life sentence.

A. First class inmates

B. Second Class inmates

C. Third class inmates

D. Colonist✔

54. Elmira Correctional Facility, known otherwise as ___, is a maximum security prison located in New
York in the USA. The prison is located in Chemung County, New York in the City of Elmira.

A. “The school”
B. “The hill”✔

C. “The rock”

D. “The dungeon”

55. Formerly it is a fortress of defense in Paris France and it was a symbol of absolutism before the
French revolution but in 17th century it was converted as prisons on where hundreds of political
prisoners are tortured and died.

A. Gulag of Russia

B. Bastille Prisons✔

C. Toul Sleng Prisons

D. Insein Prisons

57. A correctional institution that has the authority to detain persons awaiting trial or adjudication or
confine convicted offenders for a short period of time.

A. Halfway houses

B. Penal colonies

C. Jails✔

D. All of these

58. If the color of the maximum Security prisoner is Tangerine, Medium Security Prisoner is Blue, What
color is the uniform for the Minimum Security?

A. Brown✔

B. Gray

C. Orange

D. Stripe White and Orange

59. It involves supervision of prisoners to insure punctual and orderly movement from the dormitories,
place of work, hospital and churches in accordance with the daily schedules.

A. Control ✔

B. Custody

C. Discipline

D. Inspection

60. It is amendment and penitence model of prison built in 1820’s were communication among the
prisoners was next to impossible, prisoners are individually isolated.

A. Pennsylvania system ✔
B. Auburn Prison

C. Mammertime Prison

D. Justinian Prison

61. It is a method whereby a prisoner has been released from correctional facilities either temporary or
absolute to which acceptance of the members of the society is expected.

A. Community participation

B. Community Participation

C. Reintegration ✔

D. Community backing

62. The act of prisoner trying to convert or induce another to change his religious beliefs, sect or the like
to another while under confinement is referred to as

A. Proselytizing✔

B. Initiation

C. Fraternization

D. Inducement

63. The decree that formally opened the Old Bilibid Prison which was constructed as the main
penitentiary on Oroquieta Street, Manila and designed to house the prison population of the country.
This prison became known as the “Carcel y Presidio Correccional” and could accommodate 1,127
prisoners.

A. Royal Decree of 1865✔

B. Revised Administrative Code

C. Royal Decree of 1905

D. Royal Decree of 1869

64. The Director of Prison at Valencia, Spain in 1835 who divided prisoners into companies and
appointed them as petty officers; also, he allowed the reduction of inmate’s sentence by 1/3 for good
behavior.

A. John Howard

B. Dometz of France

C. Alexander Macanochie

D. Manuel Montesimos✔

65. The idea that re-entry of an offender should be in the mainstream of society rather than the usual
abrupt re-entry at the end of a prison sentence.
A. Reintegration✔

B. Deterrence

C. Incapacitation

D. Rehabilitation

66. The procedure in the admission of prisoners the purpose of which is to make sure that documents
contains the signature of the judge or the signature of the clerk of court, and the seal of the court is
termed as:

A. Receiving

B. Checking of commitment papers✔

C. Searching

D. Identification

67. The putting of offenders in prison for the purpose of protecting the public and at the same time
rehabilitating them by requiring the latter to undergo institutional treatment program is referred to as:

A. Imprisonment✔

B. Trial

C. Conviction

D. Detention

68. These refers to information concerning an inmate’s personal circumstances, such as the offense
committed, imposed sentence, criminal case number in the trial, date of the commencement of the
service of sentence and other analogous information.

A. Prison Record✔

B. Carpeta

C. Prisoner’s record

D. Inmate’s Record

69. The prisoners who cannot be trusted in open condition and maybe allowed to work outside the
fence or walls of the penal institution but under guards or escorts are known as:

A. Medium Security Prisoners✔

B. Maximum Security Prisoners

C. Minimum Security Prisoners

D. Maximum Security Prisoners

A. Sunlight

B. Morning

C. AftTop of Formernoon

D. Daylight✔

71. The procedure in admitting prisoners which purpose is to insure that the person being committed is
the same as the person being named in the commitment order.

A. Receiving

B. checking of commitment papers

C. Searching

D. Identification✔

72. The imprisonment a convicted offender may serve, at the rate of PhP8.00 a day subject to certain
rules, for failure to pay a fine and if ordered to do so by the judgment is referred to as

A. Subsidiary imprisonment ✔

B. Secondary imprisonment

C. Preventive imprisonment

D. None of the above

73. The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in
1785. The concept of the design was derived from the word meaning of “pan” and “opticon”. “Opticon’
means:

A. To allow an observer to observe✔

B. Without the prisoner

C. Avoid watching

D. To walk in military manner

74. The period of deducted sentence granted to a prisoner who escaped on the occasion of disorder
arising from conflagrations, earthquakes or catastrophe where he voluntarily surrender within 48 hours
following the issuance of a proclamation announcing the termination such disorder.

A. 1/5 period of sentence✔

B. 1/3 period of the sentence

C. ½ period of the sentence

75. The society is protected from the further depredations of criminals if they are all imprisoned
immediately after committing a crime”. This justification of penalty is known as

A. Expiation

B. Reformation

C. Deterrence

D. Protection.✔

76. This group consists of chronic troublemakers but not as dangerous as the super security prisoners.
They are not allowed to work outside the institution.

A. Maximum security prisoners ✔

B. Super security prisoners

C. Minimum security prisoners

D. Mediu security prisoners

77. This is group of prisoners who may be allowed to work outside the fence of the institution under
guard escorts. Generally they are employed as agricultural workers.

A. Medium security prisoners ✔

B. Minimum Security Prisoners

C. Maximum Security Prisoners

D. None of the above

78. What Prison system that is consisted in the solitary confinement of the prisoners in their own cells
day and night where they lived, slept, received religious instruction or read the bible, and given the work
and also known as separate system?

A. Pennsylvania Prison System✔

B. Auburn Prison System

C. Walnut Street

D. Auburn System

79. Which of the following is a maximum security prison in Ossining, New York, USA? It is located
approximately 30 miles (48 km) North of New York City on the banks of the Hudson River which the
Auburn Prison system was applied

A. Alcatraz prison

B. Sing Sing Prison✔

D. Silver Mine Farm

80. Which of these authorizes the release of a detainee who has undergone preventive imprisonment
equivalent to the maximum imposable sentence for the offense he is charged with

A. B.P. Blg. 85

B. PD 29✔

C. B.P. 22

D. PD 968

81. In terms of service of sentence of a prisoner, his case may be reviewed by BPP for possible
communication of sentence if he has served:

A.One-third (1/3) of the definite or aggregate prison term✔

B. One-half (1/2) of the maximum of his prison sentence.

C. One-third (1/3) of the minimum of his indeterminate sentence.

D. One-half (1/2) of the minimum of his definite prison sentence.

82. The end purpose of classification is –

A. To orient new inmates for prison life

B. To prepare inmates for prison life

C. To develop integrated and realistic program for prison✔

D. All of these

83. The following procedures of admission is undertaken by the staff for every prisoner entrusted to
their custody except:

A. Checking of commitment papers

B. Establishing the identity of the prisoner

C. Searching the prisoner

D. Diversifying✔

84. The infamous gulag prison in Germany was the place where thousands of Jews were slaughtered
during the reign of Adolf Hitler.

A. Gulag of Russia

B. Gulag Prison of Aleksandr Solzhenisyn✔

C. Gulag of Germany
D. The gulag of Banaue

85. The special group of prisoners composed of incorrigibles and highly dangerous persons are also
known as:

A. Maximum Security Prisoners

B. Medium Security Prisoners

C. Super maximum security prisoners✔

D. None of the above

86. An inmate shall be transferred to a separation center for adjustment process from life in prison to
life in free community within –

A. 60 days prior to release

B. 30 days prior to release✔

C. 90 days before release

D. 15 days prior to release

87. A prison model which sought penitence (hence the term penitentiaries) through total individual
isolation and silence.

A. Pennsylvania Prison Model✔

B. Auburn Prison Model

C. Work Release

D. Halfway Houses

88. Except one, joined the June 1962 Alcatraz escape was a prison escape attempt by American
criminalsusing an inflatable raft.

A. Clarence Anglin,

B. John Anglin

C. FrankMorris

D. David Gilmour✔

89. How many years of service of sentence for a first time offenders meted with life imprisonment may
be classified as Medium Security.

A. 2 years

B. 3 years

C. 4 years
D. 5 Years✔

90. If the inmate agrees to abide by the same disciplinary rules upon convicted prisoners, he shall be
asked to manifest his

A. Certification

B. Certification in writing

C. Agreement in writing ✔

D. None of the above

91. In prison, it is commonly through of a procedure to prevent escapes, riots and disorders and the
punishment of those involved.

A. Preventive discipline✔

B. Negative discipline

C. Positive discipline

D. Harsh discipline

92. Is that kind of prisoners discipline applied after an offense has been committed, in these that may
cases, and punishment does not enter.

A. Negative discipline ✔

B. Positive discipline

C. Harsh discipline

D. All of the above

93. The following personal effect of inmates that can be brought by him into the prison facilities for
common use with other inmates, Except:

A. Cassette

B. Electric Fan

C. Television

D. Air conditioners✔

94. The systems of prison were the confinement of the prisoners in single cells at night and congregate
work in stop during the day.

A. Pennsylvania prison

B. Auburn prison✔

C. Elmira reformatory
D. Alcatraz prison

95. This refers to the manner or practice of managing or controlling the rehabilitation and reformation
of prisoners.

A. Penal Management ✔

B. Corrections Administration

C. Penal Justification

D. Corrections Justification

96. Use of telephone of inmate in prison after showing a good behavior is earned after 90 days. In such
case an inmate is entitled to:

A. 5 minutes

B. 3 minutes

C. Not exceeding 5 minutes ✔

D. Not exceeding 3 minutes

97. Who is the Director of the Irish Prison who introduced the Irish system that modified the
Maconochies Mark System?

A. Manuel Montesimus

B. Walter Crofton✔

C. Domets of France

D. Zebulon Brockway

98. A prison model where incarcerated persons are allowed to work outside the institution that houses
them.

A. Pennsylvania Prison Model

B. Auburn Prison Model ✔

C. Work Release

D. Halfway Houses

99. Are prisoners who cannot be trusted in open conditions and pose less danger to society if they
escape;

A. Medium security prisoner ✔

B. Minimum Security Prisoner

C. Maximum Security Prisoner

100. Which is called the finest penal farm in the world?

A. Davao penal farm

B. Sablayan penal colony

C. San Ramon prison and penal farm

D.Iwahig penal colony ✔