Republic of the Philippines

JOSE RIZAL MEMORIAL STATE UNIVERSITY

Corr. Ad. CA-31 (INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTIONS)

Instructions. Encircle the letter of the correct answer. Strictly no ERASURES, encircling/marking two or
more letters will be automatically considered incorrect.

1. It is putting the offender in prison for the purpose of protecting the public against criminal
activities and at the same time rehabilitating the prisoners by requiring them to undergo
institutional treatment programs.
a. Punishment b. Imprisonment
c. Banishment d. Rehabilitation
2. This prison system is based on the concept of solitary confinement where prisoners are
confined to their cells day and night and required to read the Bible.
a. Auburn System b. Pennsylvania System
c. Bridewell System d. Elmira System
3. This prison system also known as The Congregate System.
a. Pennsylvania System b. Auburn System
c. Bridewell System d. Elmira System
4. A facility that houses minimum custody offenders who are serving short sentences or those
who are undergoing constructive work programs.
a. ordinary jails b. workhouses/jail farms
c. lock-up d. prisons
5. He was the one who devise a prison that consists of a large circular building containing
multi cells around the periphery.
a. William Penn b. Cesare Beccaria
c. Voltaire d. Jeremy Bentham
6. The sheriff of Bedsfordshire in recommended the - segregation of prisoners and the
abolition of fee system by which jailers obtained money from prisoners.
a. Walter Crofton b. John Howard
c. James Howard d. Immanuel Kant
7. He is the Superintendent of the penal colony at Norfolk Island in Australia (1840) who
introduced the “Mark System”.
a. Sir Evelyn Ruggles Brise b. Walter Crofton
c. Alexander Maconochie d. William Penn
8. The Director of the English Prison who opened the Borstal Institution for young offenders.
a. Walter Crofton b. Alexander Maconochie
c. Sir Evelyn Ruggles Brise d. Zebulon Brockway
9. A system in which a prisoner is required to earn a number of marks based on proper
department, labor and study in order to entitle him for a ticket for leave or conditional
release which is similar to parole.
a. Irish System b. Elmira System
c. Pennsylvania System d. Progressive or Mark System
10. He is the Director of the Irish Prison in 1854 who introduced the Irish system that was
modified from the Mocanochie’s mark system. Ticket of leave or Irish System.
a. Zebulon Brockway b. Alexander Maconochie
c. Walter Crofton d. Sir Evelyn Ruggles Brise
11. He gave a definite expression to the concept of retribution as philosophy. He argued that
there is no reasons for imposing punishments against offenders save for the fact that they
have broken the law
a. Imanuel Kant b. Manuel Montesinos
c. Immanuel Kant d. Sir Evelyn Ruggles Brise
12. He was the Director of the Elmira Reformatory in New York (1876) who introduced certain
innovational programs like the following: training school type - compulsory education of
prisoners - casework methods - extensive use of parole - indeterminate sentence.
a. Voltaire b. Walter Crofton
c. Evelyn Brise d. Zebulon Reed Brockway
13. It is the type of jail commonly used to detain a convicted criminal offender to serve
sentence less than three years.
a. Lock-up b. workhouses/jail farm
c. detention cell d. ordinary jails
14. It is a security facility, common to police stations, used for temporary confinement of an
individual held for investigation.
a. Lockup b. workhouses/jail farm
c. ordinary jails d. lock-up
15. A place to allow convicted criminals to begin the process of reintegration with society, while
still providing monitoring and support.
a. halfway house b. hallway house
c. detention house d. rehab centers
16. It is a penitentiary or institution for the imprisonment of persons convicted of major/serious
crimes.
a. Jail b. Lockup
c. Detention cell d. Prison
17. This prison is originally constructed as a detention jail in Philadelphia. It was converted into
a state prison and became the first American Penitentiary.
a. Mamertine Prison b. St. Michael Prison
c. Walnut Street Prison d. Alcatraz prison
18. This Bureau oversees city, district and provincial jails.
a. Bureau of Corrections b. Board of Pardons and Parole
c. Bureau of Prisons d. Bureau of Jail Management and Penology
19. This agency recommends to the President the prisoners who are qualified for Executive
Clemency and grants parole.
a. BUCOR b. BPP c. PPA d. DOJ
20. This agency has the principal task of rehabilitating national/insular prisoners and supervises
all national prisons/penitentiaries.
a. BUCOR b. BPP c. BJMP d. DOJ
21. A facility inside the New Bilibid New where prisoners undergo diagnostic examination, study
and observation for the purpose of determining the programs of treatment.
a. Classification unit b. Diversification unit
c. Quarantine Facility d. Reception and Diagnostic Center
22. A penal facility that houses maximum security convicts.
a. NBP (Main Hall) b. Camp Bukangliwayway
c. Camp Sampaguita d. RDC
23. It is famously known as the “May Haligue Estate”.
a. Old Bilibid Prison b. Manila City Jail
c. New Bilibid Prison d. Correctional Institution for Women
24. It is an administrative device of correctional institutions of providing varied and flexible
types of physical plants for the more effective custody, security and control of the treatment
programs of its diversified population.
a. diversification b. control
c. preventive discipline d. classification
25. It is known as “inmate record or jacket”, contains the personal and criminal records of
inmates, documents related to his/her incarceration such as but not limited to: commitment
order, subpoenas, personal identification, orders from the court, and all other papers
necessarily connected with the detention of an inmate.
a. mittimus order b. commitment order
c. carpeta d. court warrant
26. A written order of the court, or any other agency authorized by law to issue, entrusting an
inmate to a jail for the purpose of safekeeping during the pendency of his/her case.
a. commitment order b. carpeta
c. court warrant d. mittimus order
27. It refers to the visit by the wife for a short period, usually an hour, more or less, to her
incarcerated husband during which they are allowed privacy and are generally understood
to have sexual contact.
a. jail visitation b. conjugal visitation
c. conjugal right d. right of visit
28. It is a facility or a place of confinement for inmates coming from a city or clustered
municipalities who are waiting or undergoing trial or serving sentence of one (1) day to
three (3) years.
a. city jail b. district jail
c. municipal jail d. provincial jails
29. The study and practice of a systematic management of jails or prisons and other institutions
concerned with the custody, treatment, and rehabilitation of criminal offenders.
a. prison management b. correctional administration
c. jail and prison administration d. correctional management
30. A branch of the Criminal Justice System concerned with the custody, supervision and
rehabilitation of criminal offenders.
a. penology b. prison management
c. corrections d. prison system
31. It is the study of punishment for crime or of criminal offenders. It includes the study of
control and prevention of crime through punishment of criminal offenders.
a. corrections b. penology
c. correction process d. penal management
32. It is also known as Penal Science. It is actually a division of criminology that deals with
prison management and the treatment of offenders, and concerned itself with the
philosophy and practice of society in its effort to repress criminal activities.
a. penal management b. penal institution
c. penal administration d. penology
33. The school which maintains the “doctrine of psychological Hedonism” or “free will”, and that
punishment should be equal and commensurate to the seriousness of the crime committed.
a. Positivist/Italian School b. Classical School
c. Neo-Classical School d. Chicago School
34. The school that denied individual responsibility and reflected non-punitive reactions to crime
and criminality it also adheres that crimes, as any other act, is a natural phenomenon, and
that criminal is considered sick person and needs to be treated.
a. Chicago School b. Neo-Classical
c. Classical d. Italian/Positivist School
35. The school that maintained that while the classical doctrine is correct in general, it should
be modified in certain details (there should be separate punishment for children and
lunatics)
a. Positivist/Italian School b. Positivist School
c. Neo Classical School d. Chicago School
36. It is the dishonoring showcase of a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a
public place.
a. public execution b. public mutilation
c. public humiliation d. public shaming
37. It was also a wooden or metal device with holes to lock the convicted individual's head and
hands in place.
a. pillory b. stocks
c. furca d. cane
38. A mode of punishment by which a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of
a living person, with the intention that the resulting scar makes it permanent.
a. banishment b. branding
c. flogging d. marking
39. The systematic transfer of offenders to colonized land which was carried out either by
prohibition against coming into a specified territory such as an island to where the offender
has been removed.
a. banishment b. branding
c. flogging d. caning
40. It is an amount given as a compensation for a criminal act.
a. fine b. restitution
c. payment d. reparation
41. The first formal laws dealing with the imposition of justice and has the core principle a
concept of justice known as lex taliones or “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
a. Mosaic Code b. Hammurabic Code
c. King Ur Nammu’s Code d. Code of Maragtas
42. It is the infliction of a punishment of an offender in the hope that the particular offender will
be discouraged from committing future crimes.
a. incapacitation b. retribution
c. expiation d. deterrence
43. This concept of correction implies that offenders committing a crime should be punished in
a like in a manner or the proportionality of punishments to the seriousness of the crime
committed.
a. incapacitation b. retribution
c. deterrence d. atonement
44. It deprives the offender of their liberty and removes them from society with the intent of
ensuring that society cannot be further victimized by that offender
a. incapacitation b. retribution
c. deterrence d. expiation
45. It is punishment in the form of group vengeance where the purpose is to appease the
offended public or group.
a. expiation b. atonement
c. deterrence d. both a and b
46. It is helping the prisoner to become law abiding citizen and productive upon his return to
the community by requiring him to undergo intensive program of rehabilitation in prison.
a. Reintegration b. Restoration
c. Transformation d. Rehabilitation
47. It is the redress (remedy) that the state takes against an offending member of society that
usually involves pain and suffering.
a. retaliation b. punishment
c. retribution d. penalty
48. A method in which a criminal could avoid punishment by claiming refugee in a church for a
period of 40 days at the end of which time he has compelled to leave the realm by a road or
path assigned to him.
a. sanctuary b. banishment
c. exile d. transportation
49. It is also the penalty imposed on an offender for a crime or wrongdoing.
a. Punishment b. Retaliation
c. Retribution d. Penalty
50. This punishment is affected by maiming, mutilation, whipping and other inhumane or
barbaric forms of inflicting pain.
a. physical torture b. death penalty
c. transportation d. banishment
51. A device, contrivance, tool or instrument used to hold back, keep in, check or control
inmates; e.g., handcuffs.
a. instrument of restraint b. instrument of restriction
c. instrument of constraint d. locking instrument
52. These are those considered as highly dangerous or with high probability of escaping or
being rescued because of the gravity of the crimes they are accused of or have a propensity
for being troublemakers or initiators of jail riots and disturbance and who require a high
degree of control and supervision. Particularly included herein are those charged with
heinous crimes, such as murder, terrorism, kidnap for ransom, violation of R.A. No. 9165,
the imposable penalty for which is from life imprisonment to death, etc
a. escape prone inmates b. high risk inmates
c. high profile inmates d. high value targets
53. It is any untoward or uncommon actions, events, or conditions such as jail break, riot, noise
barrage, stabbing or assault upon personnel that occurs in jail and perpetrated by any
person, which may or may not have followed or depended upon another action of grave or
serious consequences such as escape, injury, death, fire, flood, earthquake, or other
calamity which affects the jail.
a. jail incident b. jail escape
c. jail break d. jail riot
54. The escape from jail by more than two (2) inmates by the use of force, threat, violence or
deceit or by breaching security barriers such as by scaling the perimeter fence, by tunneling
and/or by other similar means or by burning or destructing of the facility or a portion of the
facility with or without the aid of jail officer or any other person.
a. jail break b. jail escape
c. jail incident d. jail riot
55. It is an act of leaving from jail of an inmate through unofficial and illegal ways or without
any legal order from the authorities.
a. jail break b. jail escape
c. jail incident d. jail breaking
56. It refers to the delivery, notwithstanding his/her or their appeal, of an inmate or inmates
sentenced to more than three (3) year imprisonment, from any BJMP manned jail to any of
the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) prisons or penal farms or the delivery of an inmate/s
from BJMP-manned jail to another jail facility.
a. escort b. transfer
c. transport d. transmittal
57. It refers to the temporary custody of a person for his/her own protection from the
community he or she comes from, and for the community he or she comes from.
a. safekeeping b. imprisonment
c. confinement d. detention
58. An operation conducted by the B.J.M.P. wherein the prisoner maybe checked at any time.
His beddings, lockers and personal belongings may also be opened at anytime, in his
presence, whenever possible.
a. Checking and Head count b. Operation Greyhound
c. Standard Operating Procedure d. Standard rules
59. Any article, item, or thing prohibited by law and/or forbidden by jail rules that would pose
as security hazards or endanger the lives of inmates.
a. risk b. contraband
c. illegal imports d. unlawful hazards
60. A person who is accused before a court or competent authority and is temporarily confined
in jail while undergoing or awaiting investigation, trial, or final judgment.
a. detainee b. prisoner
c. inmate (persons deprived of liberty or PDL) d. convict
61. It is the generic term used to refer to a detainee or prisoner.
a. prisoner b. PDL (persons deprived of liberty) PDL
c. convict d.detainee
62. It refers to a person who is accused of violating or transgressing laws and ordinances
passed by competent authorities in the Philippines.
a. inmate b. prisoner
c. offender d. detainee
63.An inmate or person deprived of liberty (PDL) who is convicted by final judgment.
a. offender b. inmate
c. prisoner d. detainee
64. It is a facility or a place of confinement for inmates who are sentenced with imprisonment
from six (6) months and (1) one to three (3) year imprisonment
a. city jail b. district jail
c. provincial jail d. municipal jails
65. It is a facility or a place of confinement for inmates coming from a city or clustered
municipalities who are waiting or undergoing trial or serving sentence of one (1) day to
three (3) years.
a. provincial jail b. municipal jail
c. district jail d. city jail
66. A person whose political or religious ideologies are considered far outside the mainstream
attitudes of the society or who violates common moral standards and who has adopted an
increasingly extreme ideals and aspirations resorting to the employment of violence in the
furtherance of his/her beliefs.
a. Violent Extremist Offender b. Medium Risk Inmates
c. Minimum Risk Inmates d. High Value Target
67. Those who require increased security based on intense media coverage or public concern
as a result of their offense such as but not limited to those who have been involved in a
highly controversial or sensationalized crime or those who became prominent for being a
politician, government official, multi-million entrepreneur, religious or cause-oriented group
leader and movie or television personality.
a. High Value Target b. High Profile Inmate
c. High Risk Inmate d. Subversive Group
68. Those who are considered highly dangerous and who require a greater degree of security,
control and supervision because of their deemed capability of escape, of being rescued, and
their ability to launch or spearhead acts of violence inside the jail.
a. High Risk Target b. High Value Inmate
c. High Profile Inmate d. Terrorist Group
69. A target, either a resource or a person, who may either be an enemy combatant, high
ranking official or a civilian in danger of capture or death, typically in possession of critical
intelligence, data, or authority marked as an objective for a mission and which a
commander requires for the successful completion of the same.
a. High Value Target b. High Risk Inmate
c. High Profile Inmate d. High Profile Inmate
70. Any formal or informal ongoing inmates’ group, gang, organization or association consisting
of three or more members falling into one of the following basic categories: street gangs,
prison gangs, outlaw gangs, traditional organized crime, aboriginal gangs, subversive
groups, terrorist groups.
a. high risk inmates b. subversive group
c. terrorist group d. security threat group
71. A group of persons that commits any of the following: piracy and mutiny in the high seas or
in the Philippine waters, rebellion or insurrection, coup d’état, murder, kidnapping and
serious illegal detention, crimes involving destruction, arson, hijacking, violation of laws on
toxic substances and hazardous and nuclear waste control, violations of atomic energy
regulations, anti-piracy and anti-highway robbery, illegal and unlawful possession,
manufacture, dealing in, acquisition or disposition of firearms, ammunitions or explosives.
a. violent extremist groups b. high value target
c. terrorist groups d. subversive groups
72. Those inmates who have lesser tendencies to commit offenses and generally pose the least
risk to public safety. In most cases, they may be first time offenders and are charged with
light offenses.
a. high profile inmates b. medium risk inmates
c. high risk inmates d. ordinary inmates
73. Those who represent a moderate risk to the public and staff. These inmates still require
greater security, control and supervision as they might escape from and might commit
violence inside the jail.
a. ordinary inmates b. medium risk inmates
c. high risk inmates d. violent offenders
74. It means amending or improving by changing inmate's behavior or removing his or her
faults or abuse and removing or correcting an abuse a wrong or error.
a. rehabilitation b. altercation
c. reformation d. transformation
75. Are those that are unlawful in themselves and not because of some extraneous
circumstances (i.e. dangerous drugs, weapons, potential weapons, explosives).
a. nuisance contraband b. illegal contraband
c. unlawful contraband d. contraband