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CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION SET TWO
12. Retaliation is the earliest remedy for a wrong act to any one (in the
primitive society). The concept follows that the victim’s family or
tribe against the family or tribe of the offender, hence “blood feuds”
was accepted in the early primitive societies. Retaliation means:
A. Personal Vengeance
B. Tooth for a tooth
C. Eye for an Eye
D. All of these
A
13. In 1936, the City of Manila exchanges its Muntinlupa property with the
Bureau of Prisons originally intended as a site for boys’ training
school. Today, the old Bilibid Prison is now being used as the Manila
City Jail, famous as the :
A. “ May Halique Estate”
B. “Tandang Sora State”
C. New Bilibid Jail
D. Muntinlupa Jail
A
14. The sheriff of Bedsfordshire in 1773 who devoted his life and fortune
to prison reform. After his findings on English Prisons, he
recommended the following: single cells for sleeping, segregation of
women, segregation of youth, provision of sanitation facilities, and
abolition of fee system by which jailers obtained money from
prisoners.
A. John Howard
B. Robert Peel
C. William Penn
D. Manuel Montesimos
A
15. Mr. Cruz was convicted of the crime of murder. After 10 days from the
promulgation of the sentence, he escaped from his place of
confinement. He maybe
A. liable for evasion of service of sentence
B. considered as an escaped prisoner
C. not liable for evasion of service of sentence
D. All of these
A
16. Ms. Bantog was convicted for the crime of infanticide. After serving
her sentence she committed again the same crime. Ms Ines Bantog maybe
considered as a
A. recidivist
B. quasi-recidivist
C. habitual delinguent
D. mentally retarded person
A
17. Ramon, a basketball player, arrested Berto for some legal ground but he
failed to file a complaint against the latter with in the prescribed
period of filing. What crime did Ramon committed?
A. arbitrary detention
B. illegal Detention
C. illegal arrest
D. no crime committed
B
18. The Camp Sampaguita of the national Bilibid Prison houses
A. Super Maximum Security Prisoners
B. Maximum Security Prisoners
C. Medium Security Prisoners
D. Minimum Security Prisoners
C
19. The only early Roman place of confinement which was built under the
main sewer of Rome in 64 B.C.
A. Bridewell Workhouse
B. Wulnut Street Jail
C. Burgundian House
D. none of these
D
20. 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 deserve it. This is one
justification of punishment called:
A. Atonement
B. Incapacitation
C. Deterrence
D. Retribution
D
21. 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
D
22. One of the following is an admission procedure which involves the
frisking of the prisoner.
A. Identification
B. Searching
C. Briefing/Orientation
D. minimum security prisoners
B
23. 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
C
24. Upon receipt of the probation officer investigation report, the court
shall resolve the application for probation not later than-
A. 60 days
B. 5 days
C. 15 days
D. 45 days
B
25. Who is the Father of Philippine Probation?
A. Jose Lacson
B. Juan Ponce Enrile
C. Antonio Torres
D. None of these
D
26. What is the country, whose early schemes for humanizing the criminal
justice under it’s common law, originated probation.
A. England
B. United States
C. Greece
D. France
A
27. Which of the following does not belong to the common law practices to
which the emergence of probation is attributed?
A. Recognizance
B. Reprieve
C. Benefit of the Clergy
D. Penance
D
28. Benefit of clergy, judicial reprieve, sanctuary, and abjuration offered
offenders a degree of protection from the enactment of
A. harsh sentences
B. soft sentences
C. criminal liabilities
D. code of Hammurabi
A
C. Quarantine Unit
D. Cell 45
A
85. What is the place in some prisons, or a section in prisons where
criminals are placed awaiting execution?
A. Execution room
B. Death row
C. Garotine
D. Galley room
B
86. The Auburn system is a penal method of the 19th century in which
persons worked during the day in groups and were kept in solitary
confinement at night, with enforced silence at all times.
The Auburn system is also known as
A. Albany system
B. Irish system
C. New York System
D. None of these
C
87. Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women is aprison in Bedford
Hills, Westchester County, New York,USA. It is the largest women's
prison in New York Stateand has hosted many infamous prisoners. It is
the only women's maximum security prison in New York State. This
statement is:
A. True
B. False
C. Partially true
D. Partially false
A
88. The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English
philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design was
derived from the word meaning of “pan” and “opticon”. “Opticon’ means:
A. to allow an observer to observe
B. with out the prisoner
C. avoid watching
D. To walk in military manner
A
89. Elmira Correctional Facility, known otherwise as ___, is a maximum
security prison located in New York in theUSA. The prison is located
in Chemung County, New Yorkin the City of Elmira.
A. “the school”
B. “the hill”
C. “the rock”
D. “the dungeon”
B
90. Who among the following was given the title “father of Prison Reform”
in the United States?
A. Zebulon Brockway
B. Robert Peel
C. John Howard
D. Alexander Mocanochie
A
91. It is the idea that the moral worth of an action is solely determined
by its contribution to overallutility, that is, its contribution to
happiness or pleasure as summed among all persons. It is thus a form
of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of anaction is
determined by its outcome—the ends justify the means.
A. Hedonism
B. Positivism
C. Determinism
D. Penology
A
92. The concept of probation, from the Latin word “probatio” which means
___, has historical roots in the practice of judicial reprieve.
A. walk with faith
B. live with integrity
C. testing period
D. out of prison
C
93. In the history of capital punishment, what do they call this frame,
typically wooden, used for execution byhanging?
A. Galley
B. Gallows
C. Hulk
D. Double blade
B
94. Lethal injection refers to the practice of injecting a person with a
fatal dose of drugs for the explicit purpose of causing the death of
the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital
punishment. Which of the following drug is injected to stops the heart
thus causing death by cardiac arrest?
A. Sodium thiopental
B. Pancuronium
C. Potassium chloride
D. Bicarbonate
C
95. Execution by electrocution (referred to as the Electric Chair) is an
execution method originating in the United States in which the person
being put to death is strapped to a specially built wooden chair
andelectrocuted through electrodes placed on the body. In
the Philippines, its first use was in :
A. 1924
B. 1976
C. 1972
D. 1918
A
96. Who was the British prison administrator and reformer, and founder of
the Borstal system?
A. Zebulon Brockway
B. Alexander Mocanochie
C. Evelyn Ruggles Brise
D. Sir John Watson
C