Correctional Counselor (CC1) UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
General duties of a CC1? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Conduct classifications - Interview
I/M's
- Evaluate their progress in programs
- Summarize reports from I/M files to assist in the classification of parole suitability, etc. -
Check funds for I/M's - Verify and scan marriage licenses - Screen I/M's for lower level
placement including MCRP & ACP
When can an I/M be on placed on C status? (C/C, C over C) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -
When deemed a program failure per CCR Title 15, Section 3000
+ Refusing to work without a justifiable reason
- 2 serious RVR's within 180 days
- 1 serious RVR and 2 admin RVR's within 180 days
What penalties are applied for I/M's on C/C? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - No canteen
- No yard
- No credits given
What actions do CC1's take to place an I/M on C/C? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Review
case due to I/M's program failure
- Take to committee
- Place WG/PG: C/C
- I/M remains C/C until classified for placement in a qualifying WG
- I/M must submit a written request for reclass of assignment and removal of C/C no earlier
than 30 days from the date of placement
- I/M shall be scheduled for hearing within 30 days of receipt of the written request
What are the 2 most important characteristics for CC1's? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Good
judgment
,- Effective communication
An I/M who was found guilty based solely on a positive test result is ineligible to: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Receive favorable points for no serious
disciplinary(s) in the last 12 months
- Receive favorable points for no serious disciplinary(s) during the 6 month review period
20 elements of 128G (initial) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Purpose of the hearing
- I/M given 72 hours and introduced to committee
- Committee actions and reasons
- I/M requests and reasons for actions
- I/M's agreement/disagreement with com actions
- Effective communication achieved
- Release date and type
- Work group/privilege group and date
- Points, level, and custody
- County of commitment
- Escape, sex, or arson history
- Enemy concerns or gang status
- Grade point level
- Ethnicity
- Re-class date
- Next BPT and date
- Date and status of last mental health chrono
- Committee date and type
- Name and signatures of recorder, chairperson, and committee members
- Compas score if available
3 reasons for ASU placement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Safety concerns
- Investigations not related to misconduct
,- Relative of or an associate of prison staff
What do you do if an I/M reports to you that he has safety concerns? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- - Do not allow the I/M to leave your office
- Notify custody ASAP
- Establish who, what, when, where, why and
how?
- Document info on a confidential memo
- Schedule the I/M for committee for housing and placement consideration
5 180/270 exclusionary criteria / factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - A1 - SHU in the last 3
years for div A1/A2/B offense for assaultive behavior or weapons
- A2 - Found guilty of riot or inciting riot twice or more within 12 months. 180 for 1 year
from RVR
- A3 - Found guilty of battery of assault twice or more within 12 months. 180 for a 1 year
from RVR
- A4 - Indeterminant SHU term within 2 years due to being a validated gang
member/associate
- A5 - Indeterminant SHU term within the last 2 years due to in-custody misbehavior. 180 for
2 years from GP placement
7 methods of effective communication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - TABE score 4.0 or
under
- CCCMS
- Vision, hearing, or speech impaired
- Learning disability
- DDP
- Foreign language issues
- During any due process, the following is where you find if an I/M requires effective
communication
+ DECS
+ 1845 or 7410 DDP
+ TABE chrono
, + 128c DDP
+ POR: Probation Officer's Report
+ ISRS: Institutional staff recommendations summary
2 types of classification committees - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Unit (UCC)
- Institutional (ICC)
Unit committees (UCC) consist of: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Facility Captain (FC) as
the Chair-person
- CCII - CCI as the recorder
- Others as needed
Institutional committees (ICC) consist of:
And what units get ICC's? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Warden as the Chair-person
- Facility Captain (FC)
- CCII as the Recorder
- Psychiatrist or Physician
- Others as needed
- DDP designations (1, 2, & 3)
- Ad-Seg, SHU, & Camp
Departmental Review Board (DRB) Committees consist of:
(Highest committee - cannot be appealed) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Deputy Director of
Institution and Paroles as Chair-person
- Chief of Classification or Chief of Healthcare
+ 2 members constitute a quorum
STG Committees consist of: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Captain as the Chairperson
- CCII or CCI as the Recorder
- Other staff as witness
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
General duties of a CC1? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Conduct classifications - Interview
I/M's
- Evaluate their progress in programs
- Summarize reports from I/M files to assist in the classification of parole suitability, etc. -
Check funds for I/M's - Verify and scan marriage licenses - Screen I/M's for lower level
placement including MCRP & ACP
When can an I/M be on placed on C status? (C/C, C over C) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -
When deemed a program failure per CCR Title 15, Section 3000
+ Refusing to work without a justifiable reason
- 2 serious RVR's within 180 days
- 1 serious RVR and 2 admin RVR's within 180 days
What penalties are applied for I/M's on C/C? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - No canteen
- No yard
- No credits given
What actions do CC1's take to place an I/M on C/C? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Review
case due to I/M's program failure
- Take to committee
- Place WG/PG: C/C
- I/M remains C/C until classified for placement in a qualifying WG
- I/M must submit a written request for reclass of assignment and removal of C/C no earlier
than 30 days from the date of placement
- I/M shall be scheduled for hearing within 30 days of receipt of the written request
What are the 2 most important characteristics for CC1's? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Good
judgment
,- Effective communication
An I/M who was found guilty based solely on a positive test result is ineligible to: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Receive favorable points for no serious
disciplinary(s) in the last 12 months
- Receive favorable points for no serious disciplinary(s) during the 6 month review period
20 elements of 128G (initial) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Purpose of the hearing
- I/M given 72 hours and introduced to committee
- Committee actions and reasons
- I/M requests and reasons for actions
- I/M's agreement/disagreement with com actions
- Effective communication achieved
- Release date and type
- Work group/privilege group and date
- Points, level, and custody
- County of commitment
- Escape, sex, or arson history
- Enemy concerns or gang status
- Grade point level
- Ethnicity
- Re-class date
- Next BPT and date
- Date and status of last mental health chrono
- Committee date and type
- Name and signatures of recorder, chairperson, and committee members
- Compas score if available
3 reasons for ASU placement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Safety concerns
- Investigations not related to misconduct
,- Relative of or an associate of prison staff
What do you do if an I/M reports to you that he has safety concerns? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- - Do not allow the I/M to leave your office
- Notify custody ASAP
- Establish who, what, when, where, why and
how?
- Document info on a confidential memo
- Schedule the I/M for committee for housing and placement consideration
5 180/270 exclusionary criteria / factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - A1 - SHU in the last 3
years for div A1/A2/B offense for assaultive behavior or weapons
- A2 - Found guilty of riot or inciting riot twice or more within 12 months. 180 for 1 year
from RVR
- A3 - Found guilty of battery of assault twice or more within 12 months. 180 for a 1 year
from RVR
- A4 - Indeterminant SHU term within 2 years due to being a validated gang
member/associate
- A5 - Indeterminant SHU term within the last 2 years due to in-custody misbehavior. 180 for
2 years from GP placement
7 methods of effective communication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - TABE score 4.0 or
under
- CCCMS
- Vision, hearing, or speech impaired
- Learning disability
- DDP
- Foreign language issues
- During any due process, the following is where you find if an I/M requires effective
communication
+ DECS
+ 1845 or 7410 DDP
+ TABE chrono
, + 128c DDP
+ POR: Probation Officer's Report
+ ISRS: Institutional staff recommendations summary
2 types of classification committees - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Unit (UCC)
- Institutional (ICC)
Unit committees (UCC) consist of: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Facility Captain (FC) as
the Chair-person
- CCII - CCI as the recorder
- Others as needed
Institutional committees (ICC) consist of:
And what units get ICC's? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Warden as the Chair-person
- Facility Captain (FC)
- CCII as the Recorder
- Psychiatrist or Physician
- Others as needed
- DDP designations (1, 2, & 3)
- Ad-Seg, SHU, & Camp
Departmental Review Board (DRB) Committees consist of:
(Highest committee - cannot be appealed) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Deputy Director of
Institution and Paroles as Chair-person
- Chief of Classification or Chief of Healthcare
+ 2 members constitute a quorum
STG Committees consist of: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Captain as the Chairperson
- CCII or CCI as the Recorder
- Other staff as witness
