CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION

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MULTIPLE CHOICES
1. What is the Executive Department that
supervises and controls the numerous
Correctional Institutions nationwide?
a.Department of Justice
b.Department of Interior and Local Government
c.Department of Social Welfare and Development
d. Department of National Defense
2. Articles 1706 – 1727 of the revised
Administrative Code as amended is known as –
a.Correction Law
b.Prison Law
c.Jail Management Law
d. Parole and Probation Law
3. The Head of the Bureau of Corrections is
known as –
a.Chie of the Bureau of Corrections
b.Director of the Bureau of Corrections
c.Superintendent of the Bureau of Corrections
d. None of these
4. What Bureau under the DILG is responsible
for the supervision and control of Jails?
a.BJMP
b.Provincial Jail
c.Bureau of Corrections
d. City/Municipalities
5. What are the type of Jails under the
Supervision of the BJMP?
a.Provincial and Sub – provincial Jails
b.City and Municipal Jails
c.District Jails
d. Insular Jails
6. Provincial Jails were first established in
1910 under the American Regime. At present,
who supervises and controls the said Jails?
a.BJMP
 b.DOJ
c.Provincial Government
d. LGU
7. Who is the Head of the Provincial Jail?
a.Provincial Jail Director
b.Provincial Jail Warden
c.Provincial Administrator
d. Governor
8. What is the primary purpose of
imprisonment?
a.Rehabilitation and Reformation
b.Punishment
c.To stand trial
d. Socialization
9. A place of confinement for persons awaiting
trial court action and where the convicted
offenders serve short sentences or penalty of
the imprisonment is known as
a.Jail
b.Penitentiary
c.Lock – up
d. Detention Cells
10. 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.Fraternization
c.Initiation
d. Inducement
11. A warrant issued by the court bearing its
seal and signature of the judge directing the jail
or prison authorities to receive the convicted
offender for service of sentence or detention is
known as –
a.Mittimus
b.Sentence Mittimus
c.Detention Mittimus
d. Detention Warrant
12. The entrusting for confinement or an
offender to a jail by competent court or authority
for investigation, trial and or service of sentence
is referred to as
a.Commitment
 b.Imprisonment
c.Detention
d. Recognizance
13. The mechanical device or contrivance, tools
or implement used to hold back, keep in check
or under control is the
a.Instrument of Restraint
b.Handcuffs
c.Iron leg Lock
d. Metallic chains
14. The maintenance of care and protection
accorded to people who by authority of law are
temporarily incarcerated for violation of laws and
also those who were sentenced by the court to
serve judgment is called –
a.Custody
b.Classification
c.Safe – keeping
d. Caring
e.Protection
15. Which of these refers to the assigning or
grouping of offenders according to their
 sentence, gender, age, nationality, health, criminal
record, etc.?
a.Classification
b.Security
c.Custody
d. Safe keeping
16. Where a newly committed insular prisoner
undergoes diagnosis and treatment as part of
the classification process?
a.Reception and diagnostic center (RDC)
b.Medical center
c.Treatment center
d. Diagnostic and Treatment Center
17. Who is tasked with the gathering and
collecting or information and other data of every
prisoner into a case study to determine the work
assignment, the type supervision and degree of
custody and restriction under which an offender
must live in jail?
a.Classification board
b.Diagnostic board
c.Board of custody
d. Treatment board
18. The open institution usually a penal farm or
camp is known as the
a.NBP
b.Maximum Security Institution
c.Medium Security Institution
d. Minimum Security Institution
19. The Bureau of Correction has an admission
program for newly committed offenders to
remain in the reception and diagnostic center for
a period of –
a.30 days
b.60 days
c.20 days
d. 10 days
e.45 days
20. The penalty imposed for offenders must be
certain. This means that:
a.The guilty one must be the one to be punished,
no proxy.
b.No one must escape its affect
c.It must be equal for all persons
 d. The consequences must be in accordance
with law
21. The duration of arresto menor as a penalty is
from _________ imprisonment.
a.1 day to 1 month
b.1 day to 30 days
c.1 day to 31 days
d. Either A or C
22. Mr. Cruz was completed of the crime of
murder. After 10 days from the promulgation of
the sentence, he escaped from his place of
confinement. He has
a.Liable for evasion of service of sentence
b.Not liable for evasion or service of sentence
c.Considered as an escaped prisoner
d. None of these
23. Ms. Banta was convicted for the crime of
infanticide. After serving her sentence she
committed again the same crime. Ms. Banta is a:
a.Recidivist
b.Habitual delinquent
c.Quasi – recidivist
 d. Mentally retarded person
24. Mr. Manny was convicted for the crime of
homicide. While serving his sentence, he
committed the crime of rape. Many is considered
a:
a.Recidivist
b.Habitual delinquent
c.Quasi - recidivist
d. Mentally retarded person
25. Ms. Tipan was convicted for the crime of
adultery for three times and with in a period of
ten years. Tipan is considered as;
a.Recidivist
b.Habitual delinquent
c.Quasi – recidivist
d. Mentally retarded person
26. Mr. Pande is a barangay tanod in their
barangay. He arrested Mike for some legal
ground but he failed to file a complaint against
the latter within the prescribed period of filing.
What crime did Pande committed?
a.Arbitrary detention
 b.Illegal arrest
c.Illegal detention
d. No crime committed
27. Mr. Santos is a private individual. He
conspired with PO1 Juan in detaining X. What
crime did Santos committed?
a.Arbitrary detention
b.Illegal arrest
c.Illegal detention
d. None of these
28. PO1 Juan arrested Dino Santos by virtue of
a warrant of arrest. He failed to deliver latter to
the proper judicial authorities within the
prescribed hours of delivery. What crime did the
policeman committed?
a.Arbitrary detention
b.Delaying in the delivery of detained person
c.Illegal arrest
29. The Camp Sampaguita in Muntinlupa houses:
a.Super maximum Security Prisoners
b.Medium Security Prisoners
c.Maximum Security Prisoners
 d. Minimum Security Prisoners
30. The only early Roman place of confinement
which is built under the main sewer of Rome in
64 B.C.
a.Bridewell Workhouse
b.Burgundian House
c.Wulnut Street Jail
d. None of these
31. The punishment should be provided by the
state whose sanction is violated, to afford the
society or individual the opportunity of imposing
upon the offender suitable punishment as might
be enforced. Offenders should be punished
because they deserved it. This is one justification
of punishment called:
a.Atonement
b.Deterrence
c.Incapacitation
d. Retribution
e.A or B
32. The penalty imposed for offenders must be
certain. This means that:
 a.The guilty one must be the one to be punished,
no proxy.
b.No one must escape its effect
c.It must be equal for all persons
d. The consequence must be in accordance with
law
33. The purpose of commutation of sentence is
to:
a.Do away with the miscarriage of justice
b.Break the rigidity of the law
c.Restore the political and civil rights of the
accused
d. All of the above
34. The following are the aims of diversification
in prison or jail except:
a.More effective execution of treatment
programs
b.To prevent physical communication of one
group another
c.To prevent unnecessary custodial risk
d. None of the above
35. The following are the duties of the custodial
force in prison, except:
a.Censor offender’s inmate
b.Escort inmates
c.Inspect security devices
d. Conduct disciplinary hearing
36. One of the following is an admission
procedure which involves the frisking of the
prisoner.
a.Identification
b.Briefing/Orientation
c.Searching
d. Minimum security prisoners
37. When a jailbreak, escape or riot is in
progress or has just been perpetrated in the jail,
the officer at the control centers shall
immediately:
a.Sound the alarm
b.Notify the nearest police precinct
c.Locked prisoners in their respective cells
d. Call the warden of the director
 38. In case of mass jailbreak, all members of the
custodial force shall be immediately issued
firearms and assigned to critical posts to:
a.Plug off the escape routes
b.Protect the other inmates
c.To shoot the escape
d. To give warning shots
39. If the warden is taken as the hostage, for all
intents and purposes, he ceases to exercise
authority and the next in command or the
__________ officer present shall assume the
command.
a.Veteran
b.Assistant
c.Most senior
d. Custodian
40. Responsible for locking the inmates in his
brigade and conducting the correct count.
A. yard guars
B. keepers
C. commander of the guards
D. inspector of the guards
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