Fuller Full Test Bank Prisons And Jails Ch.11

Chapter 11: Prisons and Jails

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 1

1) This is a closed environment in which everything is controlled and structured.

a. School

b. Hospital

c. Total institution

d. Mental institution

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 2

2) Which is not one of Sykes' five pains of imprisonment?

a. Deprivation of speech

b. Deprivation of liberty

c. Deprivation of goods and services

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 3

3) This maximum-security California prison recalls the early separate-and-silent systems.

a. Attica Prison

b. Pelican Bay State Prison

c. New Mexico State Penitentiary

d. Alcatraz

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 4

4) Which group best describes federal prison inmates?

a. Defendants awaiting trial for federal offenses

b. Offenders who have been convicted of a federal offense

c. Offenders who have been convicted of a felony in the District of Columbia

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 5

5) These federal prisons have dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and little or no perimeter fencing. They may also be called federal prison camps.

a. Minimum-security institutions

b. Low-security institutions

c. Medium-security institutions

d. Administrative facilities

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 6

6) Which is not a function that a state prison intake facility would perform?

a. Identify the prisoner

b. Ask what the prisoner likes to eat and do for recreation

c. Assess the prisoner’s medical and mental health

d. Determine the prisoner’s custody level

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 7

7) In this case, the Supreme Court decided that there is no “special circumstances” exception to the Prison Litigation Reform Act's requirement that plaintiffs exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit.

a. Terry v. Ohio

b. Ross v. Blake

c. Gideon v. Wainwright

d. Cooper v. Pate

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 8

8) Which is one of the seven variations of correctional officer job assignments?

a. Yard officers

b. Block officers

c. Work-detail supervisors

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 9

9) This is the judicial attitude toward prisons prior to the 1960s in which courts did not become involved in prison affairs or inmate rights.

a. Hands-off doctrine

b. Hands-on doctrine

c. Judicial isolation

d. Monroe doctrine

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 10

10) This case allowed inmates to sue for civil rights violations.

a. Gideon v. Wainwright

b. Wolff v. McDonnell

c. Argersinger v. Hamlin

d. Cooper v. Pate

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 11

11) This amendment guards against "cruel and unusual punishments."

a. Sixth

b. Fifth

c. Fourteenth

d. Eighth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 12

12) This case defined the processes required for prison disciplinary proceedings.

a. Gideon v. Wainwright

b. Cooper v. Pate

c. Argersinger v. Hamlin

d. Wolff v. McDonnell

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 13

13) According to this amendment, states cannot restrict rights granted by the federal government.

a. Eighth

b. Fifth

c. Sixth

d. Fourteenth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 14

14) The equal protection clause of this amendment has been used to help define inmates' rights.

a. Sixth

b. Fifth

c. Fourteenth

d. Eighth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 15

15) Which of the following is a reason supporting private prisons?

a. Private enterprise better controls prison staff.

b. There is more flexibility and accountability.

c. Private prisons can be run more cheaply.

d. all of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 16

16) Which of the following is a reason against private prisons?

a. There aren't enough private prisons to go around.

b. There are more riots in private prisons.

c. Private prisons must put profit ahead of inmate welfare.

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 17

17) What do prison controls do?

a. Deprive the inmate of discretion

b. Maintain efficiency

c. Maintain order

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 18

18) This gang is considered the oldest prison gang.

a. Mexican Mafia

b. Aryan Brotherhood

c. Ku Klux Klan

d. La Nuestra Familia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 19

19) In prison, this type of behavior, which describes how the actions of an individual can be transmitted into group actions, can be deadly.

a. Human behavior

b. Bad behavior

c. Collective behavior

d. Odd behavior

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 20

20) This prison reformer advocated for separate prison facilities for women, prisoner education, less hard labor.

a. Elizabeth Fry

b. Zebulon Brockway

c. Cesare Beccaria

d. George Papanikolaou

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 21

21) What is the most prevalent and problematic occupation in the prison?

a. Correctional officer

b. Doctor

c. Chaplain

d. secretary

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 22

22) This extremely secure type of prison strictly limits inmate contact with other inmates, correctional staff, and the outside world.

a. Maxi-max prison

b. Supermax prison

c. Private prison

d. Federal prison

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 23

23) In 1983, the federal penitentiary in this city became the first standalone supermax prison in the United States.

a. Marion, Illinois

b. Atlanta, Georgia

c. San Bernardino, California

d. Detroit, Michigan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 24

24) How might inmates address the conditions of their confinement?

a. Write letters to correctional officials

b. Petition the parole board

c. Act out violently

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 – Question 25

25) In Carroll County, Georgia, the Jack T. Bell Detention Center typically holds arrestees, criminal suspects, and inmates serving sentences less than a year. What kind of facility is it?

a. Stockade

b. Penitentiary

c. Prison

d. jail

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 26

26) The number of carceral facilities a state varies little.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 27

27) Only the federal government has intake facilities or procedures that classify incoming prisoners by security level, as well as other factors, and sends them to the appropriate facilities.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 28

28) Women's prisons are much like men's prisons.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 29

29) Over the years, prison bureaucratization has decreased the number of specialist guards.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 30

30) The type of visitation that inmates are allowed varies considerably by institution.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 31

31) The Constitution protects against the search of prison cells for contraband.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 32

32) The rights lost by inmates should be consistent with the desires and wishes of the general populace.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 33

33) In the federal prison system, many prisoners are not taken into custody upon conviction, but are allowed to self-surrender.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 34

34) The courts have determined that inmates are allowed little to no due process.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 35

35) The prison is a delicate social system that includes not only inmates, but also guards and administrators.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 36

36) The pains of imprisonment do not define the prison experience.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 37

37) Without proper vigilance, gangs can take partial control of any prison.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 38

38) Running a truly safe prison requires no inmate cooperation.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 39

39) Women cannot be excluded from the core duties of the correctional officer because of their sex.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 40

40) Prison officials have wide discretion in limiting the mail and publications that inmates can send and receive.

a. True

b. False