Mock Board

Exercises
Jouie L. Donato
What is the Executive Department that
supervises and controls the numerous
Correctional Institutions nationwide?
a. Department of Justice
b. Department of Interior and Local Government
c. Department of Social Welfare and Development
d. Department of National Defense

ANS: B
Articles 1706 - 1727 of the revised
Administrative Code as amended is known as -
a. Correction Law
b. Prison Law
c. Jail Management Law
d. Parole and Probation Law

ANS: B
The Head of the Bureau of Corrections is known
as -

a. Chief of the Bureau of Corrections

b. Director of the Bureau of Corrections
c. Superintendent of the Bureau of Corrections
d. none of these

ANS: B
What Bureau under the DILG is responsible for
the supervision and control of Jails?
a. BJMP
b. Provincial Jail
c. Bureau of Corrections
d. City/Municipalities

ANS: A
What are the type of Jails under the Supervision
of the BJMP?

A. Provincial and Sub-Provincial Jails

B. City and Municipal Jails
C. District Jails
D. Insular Jails

ANS: B
Provincial Jails were first established in 1910
under the American Regime. At present, who
supervises and controls the said jails?
a. BJMP
b. DOJ
c. Provincial Government
d. LGU

ANS: C
Who is the Head of the Provincial Jail?

a. Provincial Jail Director

b. Provincial Jail Warden
c. Provincial Administrator
d. Governor

ANS: B
What is the primary purpose of imprisonment?

a. Rehabilitation and Reformation

b. Punishment
c. to stand trial
d. Socialization

ANS: A
A place of confinement for persons awaiting trial
or court action and where the convicted
offenders serve short sentences or penalty of
imprisonment is known as -
a. Jail
b. Penitentiary
c. Lock-up
d. Detention Cells
ANS: A
The act of prisoner trying to convert or induce
another to change his religious beliefs, sect or
the like to another while under confinement is
referred to as
a. Proselytizing
b. Fraternization
c. Initiation
d. Inducement

ANS: A
A warrant issued by the court bearing its seal and
signature of the judge directing the jail or prison
authorities to receive the convicted offender for
service of sentence or detention is known as -
a. Mittimus
b. Sentence Mittimus
c. Detention Mittimus
d. Detention Warrant
ANS: A
The entrusting for confinement or an offender to
a jail by competent court or authority for
investigation, trial and or service of sentence is
referred to as -
a. Commitment
b. Imprisonment
c. Detention
d. Recognizance

ANS: A
The mechanical device or contrivance, tools or
implement used to hold back, keep in check or
under control is the
a. Instrument of Restraint
b. Handcuffs
c. Iron leg Lock
d. metallic chains

ANS: A
The mechanical device or contrivance, tools or
implement used to hold back, keep in check or
under control is the
a. Instrument of Restraint
b. Handcuffs
c. Iron leg Lock
d. metallic chains
ANS: A
Which of these refers to the assigning or
grouping of offenders according to their
sentence, gender, age, nationality, health,
criminal record, etc?
a. Classification
b. Security
c. Custody
d. Safe Keeping

ANS: A
Where does a newly committed insular prisoner
undergoes diagnosis and treatment as part of the
classification process?
A. Reception and diagnostic center (RDC)
B. Medical Center
C. treatment Center
D. Diagnostic and Treatment Center

ANS: A
Who is tasked with the gathering and collecting
of information and other data of every prisoner
into a case study to determine the work
assignment, the type supervision and degree of
custody and restriction under which an offender
must live in jail?
a. Classification Board
b. Diagnostic Board
c. Disciplinary Board
d. Treatment Board
ANS: A
The open institution usually a penal farm or
camp is known as the

A. NBP
B. Maximum Security Institution
C. Medium Security Institution
D. Minimum Security Institution

ANS: D
The Bureau of Correction has an admission
program for newly committed offenders to
remain in the reception and diagnostic center for
a period of -
a. 30 days
b. 60 days
c. 20 days
d. 10 days

ANS: B
How many days that a national offender be
confined at the Separation Center before the
actual release?
a. 30
b. 60
c. 10
d. 45

ANS: A
What is the act of grace from a sovereign power
inherent in the state which exempts an individual
from the punishment which the law imposes or
prescribes for his crime, extended by the President
thru the recommendation of the Board of Parole and
Pardon?
a. Amnesty
b. Pardon
c. Parole
d. Probation

ANS: B
The form of Executive Clemency which reduces
the sentence of a convicted person to shorter
term is referred to as -
a. Amnesty
b. Commutation
c. Probation
d. Shortening

ANS: B
Under the prison service manual, the prescribed
color of prison uniform for maximum security
prison is-
a. Tangerine
b. Blue
c. Yellow
d. Pink

ANS: A
Who is the executive officer in charge of each
correctional institution?

A. Correctional or custodial officer

B. Warden or Superintendent
C. Commissioner or Director
D. Chief Warden

ANS: B
The end purpose of classification is -

a. To orient new inmates for prison life

b. To prepare inmates for prison life
c. To develop integrated and realistic program
for prison
d. all of these

ANS: C
When an inmate is given a "shakedown" before
admission it meant
a. Process of identification, record, fingerprint and
photograph
b. Examination for contraband
c. His commitment paper are delivered to record clerk
d. All of these

ANS: B
An inmate shall be transferred to a separation
center for adjustment process from life in prison
to life in free community within

A. 60 days prior to release

B. 30 days prior to release
C. 90 days before release
D. 15 days prior to release
ANS: B
Which of these authorizes the release of a
detainee who has undergone preventive
imprisonment equivalent to the maximum
imposable sentence for the offense he is charged
with
a. B.P. Blg. 85
b. B.P. 22
c. PD 29
d. PD 968
ANS: A
An inmate maybe granted parole if he -
a. earned good conduct time allowance credit
b. serve minimum sentence
c. earned good behavior while serving prison term
d. all of these

ANS: D
Who prescribes minimum standard of security,
hygiene, recreational, work program to
provincial and/or city jails?
a. Secretary of Justice
b. Director of Prison
c. Custodial Officer
d. Director for Good Behavior

ANS: C
Utilizes as method in searching the prisoner for
possession of contrabands inside the prison cells
and compound.
a. Frisking
b. body search
c. greyhound operations
d. cell search

ANS: C
This type of prison labor is state controlled and
products from the prison are mainly used by the
government.
a. public account system
b. least system
c. price per piece system
d. state use system

ANS: D
The states and incarceration should established
in the convicts the will to lead law abiding and
self-supporting lives after their release in prison.
a. United Nations Standard Minimum Rules fro the
treatment of prisoners
b. Indeterminate sentence law
c. Prison law
d. Probation law

ANS: D
It is the largest prison facility in the Philippines
considering the number of inmates it
accommodates.
a. Iwahig Penal colony
b. Davao Penal colony
c. San Ramon prison and Penal Farm
d. Sablayan Penal colony and Farm

ANS: A
Puerto Princessa Palawan
Iwahig Penal Colony
 Occidental Mindoro
Sablayan Penal Colony
 Zamboanga City
San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm
Davao Penal Colony
Person who are deemed instrumental in the
reformation of prisoners due to their daily
contact with other inmates.
a. chaplain
b. warden
c. psychologist
d. prison guards

ANS: D
A person arrested for theft may be held under
custodial investigation for a maximum period of
how many hours?
a. 12
b. 18
c. 38
d. 48

ANS: A
It is given to prisoners who have returned to
their places of confinement within 48 hours after
a calamity.
a. good conduct allowance
b. special time allowance
c. visitation privilege
d. all of the above

ANS: B
It is a primitive justification of punishment in the
sense that it is in the from of personal vengeance
or putting the law into one’s own hand.
a. retribution
b. deterrence
c. expiation
d. Reformation

ANS: A
Who among the Italian advocates of the Positive
theory wrote the book “Imputable and Denial of
Free Will”
a. Ferri
b. Garofalo
c. Lombroso
d. Becarria

ANS: A
It refers to anything which are against or
contrary to the rules and regulation of a prison or
jail facility?
a. jewelry
b. dangerous drugs
c. deadly weapons
d. Contrabands

ANS: D
It is the one of the forerunners of modern
correctional systems wherein they confine the
prisoners in single cells at night but allow them
to work in congregate shops during the day?
a. Auburn system
b. Pennsylvania system
c. Elmira Reformatory
d. All of the above

ANS: A
Auburn System
Elmira Reformatory
Pennsylvania Prison System
It has been regarded as the forerunner of modern
penology due to its extensive use of parole, case
work, and training school type of institution?
a. Pennsylvania system
b. Auburn system
c. Elmira Reformatory
d. Borstal Institution

ANS: C
It has been noted as the best reform institution
for young offenders:
a. Pennsylvania system
b. Auburn system
c. Elmira Reformatory
d. Borstal Institution

ANS: D
Borstal Institution
It is an institution intended to detain or house
political offenders.

a. Iwahig Penal Colony

b. Davao Penal Colony
c. San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm
d. Sablayan Penal Colony and Farm

ANS: C
It was made as an alternative for corporal
punishment and death penalty.
a. Transportation of prisoners
b. imprisonment
c. parole
d. Probation

ANS: B
Police De Lord was convicted to serve a penalty
of 6 years of imprisonment for usurpation of a
person in authority to his frequent introduction
of himself as an NBI agent, what would be his
classification under P.D. 29?
a. detention prisoner
b. municipal prisoner
c. provincial prisoner
d. national prisoner
ANS: D
The most common form of sexual perversion in
prison and jail facilities;

a. homosexuality
b. masturbation
c. pseudo marriages
d. Sodomy

ANS: B
A writ issued by the court ordering the
confinement of person so named in penal
institutions
a. probation order
b. bail
c. detention order
d. commitment order

ANS: D
Issued by the court to a correctional facility
indicating the basis for the confinement of a
prisoner.
a. mittimus
b. detention order
c. bail
d. probation order

ANS: A
Derived from a French word meaning word of
honor:

a. probation
b. parole
c. pardon
d. Amnesty

ANS: B
Refers to those who are confined in correctional
facilities awaiting verdict on their cases:
a. Probationers
b. Detainees
c. Parolees
d. Youth offenders

ANS: B
It refers to the disposition after which the
defendant after conviction and sentence is
released subject to the condition imposed by the
court
a. probation
b. parole
c. Pardon
d. Amnesty

ANS: A
A Boston shoe maker who advocated in behalf of
alcoholics and youthful offenders and known as
the father of probation
a. Mathew Davenport Hill
b. Edward Savage
c. John Augustus
d. Alexander Rice

ANS: C
In the year 1887, this form Boston Chief of
Police was appointed as the first probation
officer in the whole world.
a. Mathew Davenport Hill
b. Edward Hartwell Savage
c. Alexander Rice
d. John Augustus

ANS: B
What particular law established probation in the
Philippines for the first time?
a. P.D. 968
b. R.A. 968
c. Act. 4221
d. R.A. 4221

ANS: C
Celebrated case which paved the way for the
abolition of the first probation law:

People vs. Vera, 376 O.G. 164

People vs. De Vera, 376 O.G. 164
Vera vs. People, 376 O.G. 164
De Vera vs. People, 376 O.G. 164

ANS: A
Historic signing of P.D. 968 which transported
Philippine Criminal Justice System to the 20th
century.
a. July 22, 1976
b. July 23, 1976
c. July 24, 1976
d. August 7, 1935

ANS: C
Within how many days after verdict must a
petitioner his file his application for probation?
a. 10 days
b. 15 days
c. 30 days
d. 120 days

ANS: B
Maximum period of probation for a person
convicted to suffer prison correctional.
a. 2 years
b. 4 years
c. 6 years
d. 8 years

ANS: C
After receiving the PSIR, within how many days
must a judge decide whether to grant or deny
probation?
a. 5 days
b. 15 days
c. 30 days
d. 60 days

ANS: B
It refers to a suspension of sentence after which
the convict is released upon serving the
minimum sentence imposed by law and subject
to his good behavior and positive reaction to
rehabilitation programs.
a. probation
b. parole
c. pardon
d. Amnesty
ANS: B
Who is the granting authority in giving probation
to qualified petitioner?

a. court
b. probation officer
c. president
d. board of indeterminate sentence

ANS: A
Under the indeterminate sentence law, who acts
as chairman of the board of pardon and parole?

a. DILG secretary
b. DOJ secretary
c. PNP chief
d. President

ANS: B
The merging of supervision of parole and
probation by what particular law?

a. Executive Order 392

b. Executive Order 292
c. P.D. 968
d. R.A. 4221

ANS: B
US law which allowed convicts to be gainfully
employed during the day while residing in
prison.

a. Huber law
b. Harvard Law
c. split Sentence Law
d. Furlough Law

ANS: D
It refers to the continuing relationship between
the probation and the probation officer.

a. Initial Interview
b. post sentence investigation
c. supervision
d. Orientation

ANS: C
Sponsored House Bill 393, “An Act establishing
Adult Probation in the Philippines”

a. Juan Ponce Enrile

b. Teodulo C. Natividad
c. Ferdinand E. Marcos
d. Ramon Bagatsing Sr.

ANS: B
Brief of an investigation conducted by probation
officer not within the jurisdiction of the court

a. Post sentence investigation report

b. Pre sentence investigation report
c. Courtesy investigation report
d. Initial investigation report

ANS: A
The preliminary form filed up by the probationer
within 72 hours after the release of his probation
order.

a. work sheet
b. filed notebook
c. flash sheet
d. chrome card

ANS: A
Mr. Leo Mayao is from La Trinidad Benguet. He
was convicted for a crime punishable by 2 years
of imprisonment. Therefore, he is considered as:
a. Municipal Prisoner
b. City Prisoner
c. Provincial Prisoner
d. National Prisoner

ANS: C
Mr. Marcos is from Tarlac. He was convicted for
a crime punishable by 6 years of imprisonment.
Therefore, he is considered as
a. Municipal Prisoner
b. City Prisoner
c. Provincial Prisoner
d. National Prisoner

ANS: d
There are 500 prisoners in the Baguio City Jail.
250 were convicted for murder, 150 for rape
with homicide and 100 for robbery. Therefore,
all the prisoner in the Baguio City Jail were
convicted for:
a. Index crime
b. Non- index crime
c. Both index and non- index crime
d. Heinous crime

ANS: A
There are 1,500 prisoners in the Manila City jail.
500 are sentenced prisoners, 700 are detention
prisoners, 120 are minors and 280 are female
offenders. How many percent of the total
population are minors?
a. 5%
b. 7%
c. 8%
d. 11%
ANS: C
The following are example of executive
clemency. Which among them can alter death to
life imprisonment?

a. Pardon
b. Commutation of sentence
c. Reprieve
d. Amnesty

ANS: B
A unit of the Reception and Diagnostic Center
where the prisoner is given thorough Physical
Examination including blood test, X-ray,
vaccination and immunization.
a. Examination Unit
b. Diagnostic unit
c. Quarantine Unit
d. Medication Unit

ANS: C
Consist of working with one individual at a time,
which includes the professional services
rendered by professional trained personnel in the
description and social treatment of offenders.
a. Counseling
b. Casework
c. Case study
d. Clinical service

ANS: B
The following are examples of executive
clemency. Which among them can break the
rigidity of a law?

a. Pardon
b. Reprieve
c. Commutation of sentence
d. Amnesty

ANS: A
The prison system that allowed prisoners to
work during daytime but requires strict silence
during the night.

a. Auburn system
b. Pennsylvania system
c. Philippine prison System
d. Howard system

ANS: A
The prison system that practice solitary
confinement throughout the term of the prisoner.

a. Auburn system
b. Pennsylvania system
c. Philippine prison System
d. Howard system

ANS: B
Which among the following is responsible to
conduct study on the character traits and
behavior of the prisoners?
a. Psychiatrist
b. Psychologist
c. Sociologist
d. Educational Counselor

ANS: B