- Description
CJS 255 Wk 2 – Concept Check
- Question 1
A special closed-custody unit was designed at ______ to house the BOP’s worst inmates.
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Pelican Bay
USP Marion
USP Florence
Sing Sing
- Question 2
______ are underpaid in relation to other law enforcement officers.
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State police troopers
County correctional officers
County sheriff’s deputies
State appointed lawyers
- Question 3
Which is not a component of perimeter security?
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lighting
alarm systems
touch control panels
razor wire
- Question 4
The first true federal ______ facility was built in Florence, Colorado.
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medium
supermax
minimum
maximum
- Question 5
In the United States, the concept of “innocent until proven guilty” creates many problems for local jails. Which portion of the jail population is in direct conflict with the presumption of innocence?
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persons awaiting transfer to state correctional facilities
individuals being held for military tribunal
inmates awaiting transfer to another federal correctional facility
pretrial detainees
- Question 6
Which style of prison has linear cell blocks interconnected around a central enclosed space?
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campus style
courtyard style
telephone style
cluster style
- Question 7
This security facility design is in many respects, not even prisons as envisioned by most of the public.
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minimum-security facility design
direct supervision design
maximum-security design
medium-security facility design
- Question 8
This design intends to allow the staff to supervise the inmate population while negating the ability of predatory inmates to control a cell block or dormitory.
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indirect-supervision jails
sharp-supervision jails
solitary confinement jails
direct-supervision jails
- Question 9
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), ______ are defined as “locally-operated correctional facilities that confine persons before or after adjudication. Inmates who are incarcerated have a sentence of a year or less, but the facility also incarcerates people in a wide variety of other categories.”
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day reporting centers
jails
prisons
mental institutions
- Question 10
Individuals cycling in and out of the facility, large number of persons with mental disturbances, and homeless inmate are issues commonly facing ______.
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rural prisons
metropolitan jails
rural jails
parole boards
- Question 11
The use and operation of jail facilities can be traced back to ______.
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Spain
France
Russia
England
- Question 12
A prison’s _____ security system is, ideally, a collection of components or elements that, when assembled in a carefully formulated configuration, achieve the objective of confinement with a high degree of confidence.
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outside
inside
perimeter
internal
- Question 13
The ______ was designed to allow security personnel to clearly observe all inmates without the inmates themselves being able to tell whether they were being watched.
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prison
incarceration
panopticon
jail
- Question 14
The newer prison construction during the past 40–50 years has consisted of this facility type of design.
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minimum-security facility
maximum-security facility
medium-security facility
supermax-security facility
- Question 15
Requirements of the ______ are used to guide agencies and training facilities in a number of states toward ensuring that jail officers have the requisite skills needed to perform their job assignment(s).
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Jail Training Standards (JTS)
Peace Officer Review (POR)
Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
Jailer Official Review (JOR)
- Question 16
This system provides all the information needed to manage data and processes for jails of any size or complexity.
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SENTRY
Smart Sense
SmartJAIL
CCTV
- Question 17
Most jails are operated by ______.
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state-level law enforcement
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
bureau of prisons (BOP)
county-level law enforcement
- Question 18
Which is not a term for supermax facilities?
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maximum-security facility
extended confinement units
Marion model
special housing units
- Question 19
Which style of prison has a number of individual buildings that are not connected?
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telephone style
Auburn/Sing Sing style
Pennsylvania style
campus style
- Question 20
Work that individuals conduct in the hope of repaying their debt to society after being found at fault for committing a criminal or deviant offense is known as ______.
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weekend confinement
community service
split sentence
shock incarceration