Correctional & Non Correctional Administration

By: Jaypee L. Teraza R.Crim.

Criminology board exam lecturer/rationalizer

Instructions: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each
item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED.

1. It is regarded as the most important program that 9. Utilized as method in searching the prisoner for
aides in the rehabilitation of prisoners possession of contrabands inside the prison cell
a. Recreational program and compound
b. Religious program a. Frisking
c. Educational program b. Body search
d. Employment of prisoners c. Greyhound operations
2. Minimum number of times in counting the inmates d. Body search
on daily basis 10. A person who sentenced to serve imprisonment
a. Two for more than six months
b. Three a. Municipal prisoners
c. Four b. City prisoners
d. Five c. Provincial prisoner
3. Person who are deemed instrumental in the d. Insular prisoner
reformation of prisoners due to their daily contact 11. Which among the following is not among the
with the inmates classification of prisoners under presidential
a. Chaplain decree 29?
b. Warden a. Municipal prisoners
c. Psychologist b. Provincial prisoners
d. Prison guards c. Insular prisoners
4. It is continuing state of good order d. Detention prisoners
a. Discipline 12. What particular country utilized transportation of
b. Morale prisoners?
c. Communication a. Spain
d. Loyalty b. Portugal
5. It is a relationship in which one endeavors to help c. England
another understand and solve his problems of d. France
adjustment 13. It has been noted as the best reform institutions
a. Preventive discipline for young offenders
b. Communication a. Pennsylvania system
c. Counseling b. Auburn system
d. All of the above c. Elmira reformatory
6. It is a method of punishing resorted to extreme d. Borstal institutions
cases when lighter penalties are ineffectual. 14. It is given to prisoners who have returned to their
a. Bartolina places of confinement within 48hours after a
b. Solitary confinement calamity
c. Close confinement a. Good conduct time allowance
d. All of these b. Special time allowance
7. He opened the borstal prison, considered as one c. Visitation privilege
of the best reformatory institutions for young d. All of the above
offenders. 15. It is an institution originally intended to detain or
a. Sir Evelyn Ruggles brise house political offenders
b. Sir Walter Crofton a. Iwahig penal colony
c. ZR Brockway b. Davao penal colony
8. It prescribes the means to be utilized in carrying c. San Ramon Prison and Penal farm
out the treatment programs for convicted criminal d. Sablayan Prison and Farm
offenders 16. A prison convicted to serve a sentence for 5 years
a. Admissions summary of imprisonment would be classified as what kind
b. Admissions procedure of prisoner
c. Classification meeting a. Municipal prisoners
d. Case summary b. Provincial prisoners
c. National prisoners
d. Detention prisoner
 d. All of the above
17. It is considered as the highest income eamer the 26. It enables the prisoner to roam outside the prison
Philippine Correction Institution for minimum period per day to make work out
a. Iwahig Penal colony arrangement for his release
b. Davao Penal Colony a. Pre-license leave
c. San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm b. Individual or group counseling
d. Sablayan Prison and Farm c. Leave for work
18. This states that incarceration should in the d. Granting greater freedom
convicts the will to lead law abiding and self 27. If the scientific method is utilized in the
supporting lives after their release in prison segregation, what is the method employed in the
a. United Nations Standard Minimum diagnosis and treatment of the convicts?
b. Inderminate sentence law a. Individualized method
c. Prison law b. Casework method
d. Probation law c. Scientific method
19. Nobody can assume the suffering for a crime d. Individual therapy
committed by others 28. Considered as the most persistent problem in
a. Justice almost all prison facilities which contribute to
b. Expiation failure of the reformation programs.
c. Deterrence a. Idleness
d. Personal b. Deplorable conditions
20. The most common problem for national c. Riots
penitentiaries d. Escapes
a. Excessive number of inmates (over crowding) 29. All persons in custody shall, before final
b. Lack of funding conviction, be entitle to bail as a matter of______
c. Sex problems a. Right
d. Discipline of inmates b. Privilege
21. It is the primitive justification of punishment in the c. Preference
since that it is in the form of personal vengeance d. Choice
or putting the law into one’s own hand. 30. The bureau of corrections is under the_____
a. Retribution a. Department of social welfare and development
b. Deterrence b. Development of the interior and local
c. Expiation government
d. Reformation c. Department of justice
22. This theory emphasized that punishment has a d. Department of health
redemptive purpose 31. Place wherein a newly convicted prisoner is
a. Judean Christian theory housed for at least a minimum period of one week
b. Classical theory to ten days for the conduct of medical
c. Neo classical theory examination, vaccinations, x ray to prevent
d. Positivist theory physical contaminations
23. Who among the Italian advocates of the positive a. Reception diagnostic center
theory wrote the book “theory of the imputability b. Medical center
and denial of the free will” c. Infirmary
a. Ferri d. Quarantine unit
b. Garafalo 32. An advocate of the classical school of penology
c. Lombroso who claimed that society must reward those who
d. Becaria accept responsibility and punish those who do not
24. It refers to anything which is against or contrary to a. Bentham
the rules and regulation of a prison or jail facility? b. Becarria
a. Jewelry c. Lombroso
b. Dangerous drug d. Ferri
c. Deadly weapons 33. It starts from the admission report of individual
d. Contrabands inmates and serves as the basis in granting parole
25. It is one of the forerunners of modern correctional a. Admissions summary
system wherein they confine the prisoners from b. Behavior report
single cells at night but allow them to work in c. Misconduct report
congregate shops during the day? d. Cumulative class summary
a. Auburn system
b. Pennsylvania system
c. Elmira Reformatory
34. Issued by the court to a correctional facility 43. It is a change in the court’s verdict made by the
indicating the basis for the confinement of a president which lowers the degree of the penalty
prisoner. imposed by the court
a. Mittimus a. Amnesty
b. Detention order b. Pardon
c. Bail c. Commutation
d. Probation order d. Reprieve
35. School of thought advocated by Dr, Lombroso, 44. Suspension of sentence of convict after serving
Ferri and Garofalo. the minimum term of indeterminate penalty without
a. modern clinical school granting pardon
b. Italian school a. Parole
c. Neo classical school b. Reprieve
d. Neo classical school c. Commutation
36. Country wherein the last recorded burning at stake d. Fine
was made 45. It refers to a sentence of imprisonment for the
a. Germany minimum period.
b. USA a. Indeterminate sentence
c. England b. Good time conduct allowance
d. France c. Parole
37. A nations who pioneered banishment as a form of d. Probation
punishment 46. Deduction of the term in the imprisonment due to
a. England the convict’s exemplary behavior while I prison.
b. Spain a. Indeterminate sentence
c. France b. Good time conduct allowance
d. Rome c. Parole
38. A code which adopted the principle an eye for an d. Probation
eye a tooth for a tooth. 47. A law which mandated in the offenders as
a. Code of Kalantiaw punishment would have serve a portion of their
b. Hammurabi’s code sentence in institutions and thereby released to
c. Bible undergo probation.
d. French code a. Huber law
39. Year when the League of Nations adopted the b. Split Sentence Law
“Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of c. PD 968
prisoners d. Indeterminate sentence law
a. 1932 48. A method allow to undertaken to allow prisoners
b. 1934 opportunity for normal sex life
c. 1936 a. Visitation
d. 1938 b. Masturbation
40. Year when the first international prison congress c. Sodomy
was held in London d. Conjugal visit
a. 1870 49. Most common form of sexual perversion in prison
b. 1872 and jail facilities.
c. 1876 a. Homosexuality
d. 1880 b. Masturbation
41. It refers to an act of grace of the chief executive c. Pseudo marriages
grabs general pardon to certain class of offenders, d. Sodomy
but requires concurrence of congress. 50. An writ issued by the court ordering the
a. Amnesty confinement of person so named in penal
b. Pardon institutions
c. Commutations a. Probations order
d. Reprieve b. Bail
42. The temporary stay in the execution of the court, c. Detention order
ordered by the president verdict to enable review d. Commitment order
of the merits of the case 51. For a maximum security facility how high should
a. Appeal the walls be constructed?
b. Pardon a. 8 to 12 feet
c. Reprieve b. 12 to 14 feet
d. Commutations c. 18 to 20 feet
d. 18 to 25 feet
52. This type of institutions is usually constructed 61. Its main objective is to prevent unnecessary
without a fence? custodial risk and prevent and moral
a. Minimum security institutions contaminations from one group to another.
b. Medium security institutions a. Diversification
c. Maximum security institutions b. Segregations
d. Open institutions c. Discipline
53. What is the main objective of segregation? d. Classifications
a. Diversification by age 62. Ideal number of days for proper classification of
b. Diversification by sex newly convicted offenders at the RDC.
c. Diversification by degree of imprisonment a. 15days
d. Prevention of physical and moral b. 30days
contaminations c. 45days
54. It is original intention of imposing prison labor? d. 60days
a. Punitive 63. Sometimes referred to as case conference or
b. Afflictive Guidance conference wherein the tentative
c. Reformatory formulation of rehabilitations program is conducted
d. Business with the inmate concerned.
55. It refers to the formulation for the tentative a. Staff conference
rehabilitations program of the convict b. Admissions classification meeting
a. Diagnosis c. Classification meeting
b. Treatment planning d. Staff interview
c. Execution of treatment program 64. Calls the attentions of inmates fpr certain
d. Re-classifications misconduct or positive traits manifested while
56. It is mainly responsible for the implementation of a serving sentence
prisoners treatment program? a. Post sentence report
a. RDC b. Behavior report
b. Warden c. Misconduct report
c. Classification committees d. Admissions summary
d. All of the above 65. A written repot detaining particular inmate and the
57. It is part of the classification wherein the prisoners violations incurred with reference to the rule book.
are examined and tests are administered to check a. Post sentence report
on the physical and mental condition b. Behavior report
a. Diagnosis c. Misconduct report
b. Treatment d. Admissions summary
c. Execution 66. The most challenging problem that confronts the
d. Re-classifications administrators of penal institutions worldwide.
58. This forerunner of penology considered and made a. Over crowding
emphasis on physical characteristics as basis for b. Unsanitary conditions
atavism. c. Sex
a. Lombroso d. Lack of funding
b. Becarria 67. A means of social control
c. Ferri a. Penalty
d. Garofalo b. Punishment
59. What particular country first utilized prison as c. Retribution
distension facilities? d. Atonement
a. United states of America 68. Group vengeance as a justification for imposition
b. England of punishment.
c. France a. Retribution
d. Spain b. Expiation
60. Credited for introducing the use of jails c. Deterrence
a. Europeans d. Protection
b. Americans 69. Primitive punishment of the transgressor carried
c. Asians out trough personal vengeance
d. Cavemen a. Retribution
b. Expiation
c. Deterrence
d. Protection
70. It paved the way for exempting law violators from 79. Type of prison labor where products from the
their criminal liability by reason prison are mainly used by the government
a. People Vs. De Vera a. Public account system
b. M’nathan Case b. Lease system
c. Sursis c. Price per piece system
d. Furlough d. State use system
71. Golden age of penology 80. What division is in charge of personnel recruitment
a. 1880 to 1870 and training and procurement of supplies?
b. 1870 to 1880 a. Business management division
c. 1880 to 1890 b. Custodial division
d. 1890 to 1900 c. Classification and treatment division
72. Upon the assumption of the IPPC’s work, the d. Medical division
United Nations preferred to identity its activities 81. It was made as an alternative for corporal
and programs under the broader concept of punishment and death penalty
a. Social offense a. Transportation of prisoners
b. Social defense b. Imprisonment
c. Social justice c. Parole
d. Juvenile justice d. Probation
73. Oldest penal institutions operated under the 82. This activity is undertaken to minimize the anxiety
bureau of corrections of the offender in returning to the free society
a. Iwahig penal colony a. Pre-release leave
b. Davao penal colony b. Individual or group counseling
c. San Ramon Prison and penal Farm c. Granting greater freedom
d. Sablayan penal colony d. Leave for work
74. An inherent responsibility of the warden in seeing 83. It is the primary objective of custodial and security
to it that he continually motivates his staff and division?
personnel to perform at their best a. To prevents riots
a. Control of prison operation b. To prevents escapes
b. Decision making c. To implements discipline
c. Personnel program d. To help in the reformation of prisoners
d. Executive leadership 84. It is regarded as one of the finest open penal
75. First juvenile court in 1899 institution in the world
a. Chicago a. Iwahig penal colony
b. England b. Davao penal colony
c. Massachusetts c. San Ramon Prison and penal farm
d. Valencia, Spain d. Sablayan Prison and Farm
76. He advocated the progressive system or irish 85. Held in custody for the violation of a law or
system which is considered by many as one of the ordinance and has yet not been convicted is a;
most famous contributor to the reformatory a. Detention prisoner
movement? b. National prisoner
a. Alexander Macanochie c. Provincial prisoner
b. Walter Crofton d. Insular prisoner
c. Z.R Brockway 86. A person who is sentenced to serve a prison term
d. Evelyn ruggles brise of over three (3) years is a
77. It has been regarded as the forerunner of modern a. City prisoner
penology due to its extensive use of parole, social b. Detention prisoner
case work and training school type of institutions. c. National prisoner
a. Pennsylvania system d. Municipal prisoner
b. Auburn system 87. They are prisoners who may be allowed to work
c. Elmira reformatory outside the fence of the institutions under guard
d. Borstal institutions escorts, generally they are employed as a
78. Pardon exercised when a person is____________ agricultural workers
a. Already convicted a. Super security prisoners
b. About to be convicted b. Maximum security prisoners
c. Under custodial investigation c. Medium security prisoners
d. Under trial d. Minimum security prisoners
88. The BJMP is under the administrations 97. The form of Executive Clemency which reduces
of___________ the sentence of a convicted person to shorter term
a. DILG is referred to as -
a. Amnesty c. Probation
b. Executive department
c. PNP b. Commutation d. shortening
d. DOJ
98. An inmate maybe granted parole if he -
89. The basis in school of penology is human free will.
a. earned good conduct time allowance credit
a. Classical school b. serve minimum sentence
b. Neo classical school c. earned good behavior while serving prison term
c. Positivist school d. all of these
d. Italian school 99. Who is charged for the hearing of disciplinary
90. Pardon cannot be extended to one of the following cased in prison?
instance a. Classification Board c. Parole Board
a. Murder b. Administrative Board d. Disciplinary Board
b. Arson
c. Rape 100. The form of conditional release that is granted
after a prisoner has served a portion of his
d. Impeachment
sentence in a correctional institution is known as:
91. What is the Executive Department that supervises a. conditional pardon c. probation
and controls the numerous Correctional
Institutions nationwide? b. parole d. commutation
101. The Bureau of Correction is under the
a. Department of Justice
Department of:
b. Department of Interior and Local Government
a. Interior and Local Government
c. Department of Social Welfare and
Development b. Bureau of Jail Management and Penology
d. Department of National Defense
92. The Head of the Bureau of Corrections is known c. Justice
as -
a. Chief of the Bureau of Corrections d. National Security
b. Director of the Bureau of Corrections 102. The kind of pardon under which the convict is
c. Superintendent of the Bureau of Corrections required to comply with certain requirements is
d. none of these referred to as the
93. What are the types of Jails under the Supervision a. conditional pardon c. amnesty
of the BJMP?
a. Provincial and Sub-Provincial Jails b. probation d. parole
b. City and Municipal Jails 103. The meaning of the word oblivion is
a. forgetting completely c. class of persons
c. District Jails
b. abolish d. community based treatment
d. Insular Jails
104. The principle of separating homogeneous type of
94. What is the primary purpose of imprisonment? prisoners that requires special treatment and
a. Rehabilitation and Reformation custody is called:
b. to stand trial a. classification d. distinction

c. Punishment b. diversification e. differentiation

d. Socialization 105. The process of determining the needs and

requirements of prisoners for assigning them to
95. A place of confinement for persons awaiting trial or programs according to their existing resources is
court action and where the convicted offenders called:
serve short sentences or penalty of imprisonment a. classification c. quarantine
is known as
a. Jail c. Lock-up b. diversification d. quality control

b. Penitentiary d. Detention Cells 106. During the 16th up to the 18th century, a criminal
may be sent away from a place carried out by
96. What is the act of grace from a sovereign power prohibition to coming against a specified territory.
inherent in the state which exempts an individual This is an ancient form of punishment called:
from the punishment which the law imposes or a. exile c. transportation
prescribes for his crime, extended by the
President thru the recommendation of the Board of b. banishment d. public trial
Parole and Pardon?
a. Amnesty c. Parole
b. Pardon d. Probation
107. The theory in penal science which maintains that 117. It is considered as the highest income eamer
punishment gives lesson to the offender and the the Philippine Correction Institution
would be criminals is called: a. Iwahig Penal colony
a. deterrence c. reformations
b. Davao Penal Colony
b. incapacitation d. public safety c. San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm
d. Sablayan Prison and Farm
108. Retaliation is the earliest remedy for a wrong act
118. This states that incarceration should in the
to any one (in the primitive society). The concept
follows that the victim’s family or tribe against the convicts the will to lead law abiding and self
family or tribe of the offender, hence “blood feuds” supporting lives after their release in prison
was accepted in the early primitive societies. a. United Nations Standard Minimum
Retaliation means: b. Inderminate sentence law
a. Personal Vengeance c. Tooth for a tooth c. Prison law
b. Eye for an Eye d. all of these d. Probation law
119. Nobody can assume the suffering for a crime
109. In Babylon, about 1990 BC, credited as the oldest committed by others
code prescribing savage punishment but in fact. a. Justice b. Expiation
a. Hammurabic code c. Sumerian Code
c. Deterrence d. Personal
b. Justinian code d. Code of Draco 120. The most common problem for national
penitentiaries
110. Mr. Cruz was convicted of the crime of murder.
After 10 days from the promulgation of the a. Excessive number of inmates
sentence, he escaped from his place of b. Lack of funding
confinement. He is: c. Sex problems
a. liable for evasion of service of sentence d. Discipline of inmates
121. It is the primitive justification of punishment in
b. not liable for evasion of service of sentence
the since that it is in the form of personal
c. considered as an escaped prisoner vengeance or putting the law into one’s own hand.
a. Retribution b. Deterrence
d. none of these
c. Expiation d. Reformation
111. Which of the following does not belong to the 122. . This theory emphasized that punishment has
common law practices to which the emergence of a redemptive purpose
probation is attributed? a. Judean Christian theory
a. Recognizance c. Reprieve
b. Classical theory
b. Benefit of the Clergy d. Penance c. Neo classical theory
d. Positivist theory
112. Is the country who first legally established
123. . Who among the Italian advocates of the
probation?
a. Germany b. England positive theory wrote the book “theory of the
imputability and denial of the free will”
c. Rome d. USA a. Ferri b. Garafalo
113. Who is the Father of Philippine Probation? c.Lombroso d. Becaria
a. Jose Lacson c. Juan Ponce Enrile 124. . It refers to anything which is against or
contrary to the rules and regulation of a prison or
b. Teodulo Natividad d. Antonio Torres
jail facility?
114. The court may grant probation only - a. Jewelry b. Dangerous drug
a. After arraignment b. After conviction c. Deadly weapons d. Contrabands
125. It is one of the forerunners of modern
c. Before conviction d. all of these
correctional system wherein they confine the
115. Which of these is known as the Adult Probation prisoners from single cells at night but allow them
Law, which grants probation to prisoner to work in congregate shops during the day?
sentenced to term in prison of not more than six a. Auburn system b. Pennsylvania
(6) years -
system
a. PD 603 b. PD 869
c. Elmira Reformatory d. All of the above
c. RA 6127 d. PD 698 e. PD968 126. . It enables the prisoner to roam outside the
prison for minimum period per day to make work
116. A prison convicted to serve a sentence for 5
years of imprisonment would be classified as what out arrangement for his release
kind of prisoner a. Pre-license leave
a. Municipal prisoners b. Provincial prisoners b. Individual or group counseling
c. National prisoners d. Detention prisoner c. Leave for work
d. Granting greater freedom
127. . If the scientific method is utilized in the 137. . A nations who pioneered banishment as a
segregation, what is the method employed in the form of punishment
diagnosis and treatment of the convicts? a. England b. Spain
a. Individualized method b. Casework method c. France d. Rome
c. Scientific method d. Individual therapy 138. 138. A code which adopted the principle an
128. . Considered as the most persistent problem in eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth.
almost all prison facilities which contribute to a. Code of Kalantiaw b. Hammurabi’s code
failure of the reformation programs. c. Bible d. French code
a. Idleness b. Deplorable conditions 139. . Year when the League of Nations adopted
c. Riots d. Escapes the “Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of
129. All persons in custody shall, before final prisoners
conviction, be entitle to bail as a matter of______ a. 1932 b. 1934
a. Right b. Privilege c. 1936 d. 1938
c. Preference d. Choice 140. . Year when the first international prison
congress was held in London
130. . The bureau of corrections is under the_____ a. 1870 b.1872
a. Department of social welfare and development c. 1876 d. 1880
b. Development of the interior and local 141. . It refers to an act of grace of the chief
government executive grabs general pardon to certain class of
c. Department of justice offenders, but requires concurrence of congress.
d. Department of health a. Amnesty b. Pardon
131. . Place wherein a newly convicted prisoner is c. Commutations d. Reprieve
housed for at least a minimum period of one week 142. . The temporary stay in the execution of the
to ten days for the conduct of medical court, ordered by the president verdict to enable
examination, vaccinations, x ray to prevent review of the merits of the case
physical contaminations a. Appeal b. Pardon
a. Reception diagnostic center c. Reprieve d. Commutations
b. Medical center 143. It is a change in the court’s verdict made by
c. Infirmary the president which lowers the degree of the
d. Quarantine unit penalty imposed by the court
132. . An advocate of the classical school of a. Amnesty b. Pardon
penology who claimed that society must reward c. Commutation d. Reprieve
those who accept responsibility and punish those 144. . Suspension of sentence of convict after
who do not serving the minimum term of indeterminate penalty
a. Bentham b. Becarria without granting pardon
c.Lombroso d. Ferri a. Parole b. Reprieve
133. 133. It starts from the admission report of c. Commutation d. Fine
individual inmates and serves as the basis in 145. . It refers to a sentence of imprisonment for the
ranting parole minimum period.
a. Admissions summary b. Behavior report a. Indeterminate sentence
c. Misconduct report d. Cumulative class summary b. Good time conduct allowance
134. . Issued by the court to a correctional facility c. Parole
indicating the basis for the confinement of a d. Probation
prisoner. 146. . Deduction of the term in the imprisonment
a. Mittimus b. Detention order due to the convict’s exemplary behavior while I
c. Bail d. Probation order prison.
135. . School of thought advocated by Dr, a. Indeterminate sentence
Lombroso, Ferri and Garofalo. b. Good time conduct allowance
a. modern clinical school c. Parole
b. Italian school d. Probation
c. Neo classical school 147. . A law which mandated in the offenders as
d. Neo classical school punishment would have serve a portion of their
136. Country wherein the last recorded burning at sentence in institutions and thereby released to
stake was made undergo probation.
a. Germany b. USA a. Huber law
c. England d. France b. Split Sentence Law
c. PD 968
d. Indeterminate sentence law
148. . A method allow to undertaken to allow
prisoners opportunity for normal sex life
a. Visitation b. Masturbation
c. Sodomy d. Conjugal visit
149. . Most common form of sexual perversion in
prison and jail facilities.
a. Homosexuality b. Masturbation
c. Pseudo marriages d. Sodomy
150. . An writ issued by the court ordering the
confinement of person so named in penal
institutions
a. Probations order b. Bail
c. Detention order d. Commitment order