Republic of the Philippines

JOSE RIZAL MEMORIAL STATE UNIVERSITY

The Premier University in Zamboanga del Norte

CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION

1. 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
2. A branch of the Criminal Justice System concerned with the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of criminal offenders.
a. penology b. corrections c. prison management d. prison system
3. 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
4. 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. penology c. penal administration d. penal institution
5. 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. Neo-Classical c. Classical d. Chicago School
6. 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. Italian School b. Neo-Classical c. Classical d. Chicago School
7. 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. Italian School b. Positivist School c. Neo Classical School d. Chicago School
8. It is the dishonoring showcase of a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place.
a. public execution b. Public humiliation c. Public mutilation d. public shaming
9. Women who were convicted of being scolds or gossips were tied to the seat then ducked into the local pond or river.
a. scold’s bridle b. ducking stool c. guillotine d. tawse
10. A wooden board was placed on their body and stone or iron weights were added until the person agreed to plead - or died.
a. pressing b. grampussing c. garrotting d. ducking stool
11. A punishment often carried out by making the prisoner to turn the handle thousands of times before he could eat.
a. jougs b. crank c. cane d. stocks
12. It was a cramped cell where the prisoner would sweat until he felt the affect of dehydration
a. sweat box b. lock up c. gaols d. furca
13. It was also a wooden or metal device with holes to lock the convicted individual's head and hands in place.
a. stocks b. pillory c. furca d. cane
14. 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
15. 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
16. It is an amount given as a compensation for a criminal act.
a. fine b. restitution c. payment d. reparation
17. 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
18. 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. deterrence d. expiation
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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. Rehabilitation c. Transformation d. Restoration
23. 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
24. 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. transportation b. banishment c. sanctuary d. exile
25. It is also the penalty imposed on an offender for a crime or wrongdoing.
a. Punishment b. Retaliation c. Retribution d. Penalty
26. 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
27. 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. Imprisonment b. Punishment c. Banishment d. Rehabilitation
28. 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. Pennsylvania System b. Auburn System c. Bridewell System d. Elmira System
29. This prison system also known as The Congregate System.
a. Pennsylvania System b. Auburn System c. Bridewell System d. Elmira System
30. A facility that houses minimum custody offenders who are serving short sentences or those who are undergoing
constructive work programs.
a. workhouses/jail farms b. ordinary jails c. lock up d. prisons
31. He was the one who devise a prison that consists of a large circular building containing multi cells around the periphery.
a. Jeremy Bentham b. Cesare Beccaria c. Voltaire d. William Penn
32. 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
33. He is the Superintendent of the penal colony at Norfolk Island in Australia (1840) who introduced the “Mark System”.
a. Alexander Maconochie b. Walter Crofton c. Sir Evelyn Ruggles Brise d. William Penn
34. 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
35. 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. Progressive or Mark System c. Pennsylvania System d. Elmira System
36. 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
37. 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. Immanuel Kant b. Manuel Montesinos c.Imanuel Kant d. Sir Evelyn Ruggles Brise
38. 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. Immanuel Kant b. Walter Crofton c. Zebulon Reed Brockway d. Evelyn Brise
39. 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. ordinary jails d. detention cell

40. It is a security facility, common to police stations, used for temporary confinement of an individual held for investigation.
b. Lock-up b. workhouses/jail farm c. ordinary jails d. detention cell
41. A place to allow convicted criminals to begin the process of reintegration with society, while still providing monitoring and
support.
a. Workhouse b. halfway house c. detention house d. rehab centers
42. It is a penitentiary or institution for the imprisonment of persons convicted of major/serious crimes.
a. Jail b. prison c. detention cell d. lock up
43. 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
44. This Bureau oversees city, district and provincial jails.
a. BUCOR b. BPP c. BJMP d. DILG
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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. Reception and Diagnostic Center
48. A penal facility that houses maximum security convicts.
a. NBP (Main Hall) b. Camp Bukangliwayway c. Camp Sampaguita
49. It is famously known as the “May Haligue Estate”.
a. Old Bilibid Prison b. Manila City Jail c. New Bilibid Prison
50. 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. classification b. diversification c. preventive discipline
51. 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. carpeta c. commitment order d. court warrant
52. 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. mittimus order b. carpeta c. court warrant d. commitment order
53. 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
54. 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
55. A device, contrivance, tool or instrument used to hold back, keep in, check or control inmates; e.g., handcuffs.
a. instrument of constraint b. instrument of restriction c. instrument of restraint
56. 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
57. 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 break b. escape c. jail incident d. jail riot
58. 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
59. 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
60. 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
61. 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. confinement b. imprisonment c. safekeeping d. detention
62. 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 operation b. operation greyhound c. Standard Operating Procedure
63. 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
64. 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. inmate (persons deprived of liberty or PDL) b. prisoner c. detainee d. convict
65. It is the generic term used to refer to a detainee or prisoner.
a. prisoner b. detainee c. PDL (persons deprived of liberty) PDL d. convict
66. 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
67. An inmate or person deprived of liberty (PDL) who is convicted by final judgment.
a. offender d. prisoner c. inmate d. detainee
68. 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
69. 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
70. 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. Medium Risk Inmates b. Violent Extremist Offender c. Minimum Risk Inmates d. High Value Target
71. 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 Risk Inmate c. High Profile Inmate d. Subversive Group
72. 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 Value Target b. High Risk Inmate c. High Profile Inmate d. Terrorist Group
73. 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
74. 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. security threat group b. subversive group c. terrorist group d. high risk inmates
75. 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. terrorist groups c. high value target d. subversive groups
76. 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. ordinary Inmates b. medium risk inmates c. high risk inmates d. high profile inmates
77. 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
78. 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. reformation c. safekeeping d. transformation
79. 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
80. It refers to the method of correcting sentence offenders without having to go to prison.
a. community-based corrections b. non-institutional corrections
c. institutional corrections d. community corrections
81. It is often referred to as the “eye for an eye” mentality and simply implies that offenders committing a crime should be punished
in a like fashion or in a manner that is commensurate with the severity of the crime that they have committed.
a. incapacitation b. rehabilitation c. retribution d. deterrence
82. 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 during the offender’s term of incarceration.
a. deterrence b. incapacitation c. retribution d. rehabilitation
83. It implies that an offender should be provided the means to fulfill a constructive level of functioning in society, with an implicit
expectation that such offenders will be deterred from reoffending.
a. incapacitation b. rehabilitation c. retribution d. deterrence
84. It allows a prisoner who is sufficiently trusted or can be sufficiently monitored to leave confinement to continue working at their
current place of employment, returning to prison when their shift is complete.
` a. halfway house b. community transition program c. work release program d. recognizance
85. It is a program that provides an opportunity for the offenders who meet the requirements to transition back to their communities
prior to their scheduled release date.
a. recognizance b. halfway house c. work release program d. community transition program
86. It is a center for helping former drug addicts, prisoners, psychiatric patients can stay after they leave from prison and before they
start to live on their own.
a. community transition program b. halfway house c. work release program d. recognizance
87. It is an early release mechanisms keep offenders under supervision until the expiration of their original sentence.
a. probation b. parole system c. pardon d. reprieve
88. It refers to the earliest forms of leniency.
a. judicial reprieve b. benefit of clergy c. sanctuary d. transportation
89. It refers to the supervision/surveillance by a Probation and Parole Officer of a parolee.
a. pre-parole supervision b. parole supervision c. parolee supervision d. parole investigation
90. This report should be submitted by the assigned PPO when the parolee reported for supervision.
a. Progress report b. arrival report c. status report d. summary report
91. It refers to the head of the Parole and Probation Administration in the region
a. Regional head b. Regional Chief c. Regional Director d. Regional officer
92. An officer who authorizes a parolee to travel outside his area of operational jurisdiction for a period of not more than thirty (30)
days.
a. Probation and Parole Officer b. Probation and Parole Officer I c. Chief Probation and Parole Officer
93. For outside travel for more than 30 days, the parolee should request approval from?
a. Regional Director b. Regional Chief c. Regional Officer d. Regional head
94. If the parolee dies in the absence of a death certificate, this document may be submitted to the board which narrates the
circumstances of the fact of the death of the parolee from the barangay chairman, authorized officer or immediate relative.
a. warrant b. affidavit c. death report d. death certificate
95. A report is to be made by the PPO when the parolee has been subsequently convicted of another crime.
a. status report b. infraction report c. progress report d. violation report
96. The parolee who is recommitted to prison by the Board shall be made to serve his ____?
a. original sentence b. maximum sentence c. unexpired portion of his maximum sentence
97. The probation and parole officer submits this report to the Board after the expiration of the maximum sentence and supervision
of the parolee.
a. infraction report b. summary report c. progress report d. status report

98. It is a document given by the BPP after a parolee complied with all the conditions of his parole supervision.
a. Certificate of Release b. Certificate of Compliance with Conditional pardon
c. Certificate of Final Release and Discharge d. Certificate of Release Document
99. It shall refer to Pardon (absolute/ conditional), Amnesty, Reprieve and Commutation of Sentence granted by the President upon
the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Parole.
a. Executive Clemency b. Executive Leniency c. Judicial Reprieve d. Amnesty
100. It is a form of executive clemency granted by the President as a privilege extended to a convict as a discretionary act of grace.
a. reprieve b. parole c. amnesty d. pardon
101. It refers to the total extinction of the criminal liability of the individual to whom it is granted without any condition whatsoever
and restores to the individual his civil rights and remits the penalty imposed for the particular offense of which he was convicted.
a. conditional pardon b. absolute pardon c. amnesty d. parole
102. It refers to the exemption of an individual, within certain limits or conditions; from the punishment that the law inflicts for the
offense he has committed resulting in the partial extinction of his criminal liability.
a. absolute pardon b. conditional pardon c. amnesty d. reprieve
103. It is a general pardon extended to a certain class of people who are usually political offenders and needs the concurrence of
the Congress.
a. parole b. reprieve c. amnesty d. pardon
104. It is the temporary stay of the execution of a sentence. It is applied to death sentenced already affirmed by the Supreme Court.
a. conditional pardon b. reprieve c. commutation of sentence d. amnesty
105. It shall refer to the reduction of a prison sentence. It is an act of clemency by which a heavier or longer sentence is reduced to a
lighter or shorter term. It also benefits inmates sentenced to a fixed or determinate sentence which renders him or her ineligible
for parole.
a. pardon b. reprieve c. amnesty d. commutation of sentence