CORRECTIONAL COUNSELOR EXAMS SCRIPT 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Institution Classification Committees (ICC) consist of: - ✔✔•Warden or
CDW/chairperson
•Correctional administrator/AW
•Psychiatrist/physician
•Captain
•Correctional captain
•CCII/CCI
•Lieutenant
•Other staff as required
✔✔3377. Facility Security Levels - ✔✔Level 1- open dorms with low security perimeter
Level 2- open dorms with secure perimeter/possible gun coverage
Level 3- secure perimeter/gun coverage, housing units with cells adjacent to exterior
walls
Level 4- secure perimeter w/internal and external armed coverage, cell block housing
with cells non-adjacent to exterior walls
✔✔3377.1 Inmate Custody Designations - ✔✔Maximum (MAX)
Close A
Close B
Medium A
Medium B
Minimum A
Minimum B
✔✔3377.1 (b) "R" suffix - ✔✔An "R" suffix shall be affixed to an inmate's custody
designation to ensure the safety of inmates, correctional personnel, and the general
public by identifying inmates who have a history of specific sex offenses as outlined in
Penal Code (PC) Section 290.
Required documentation must be used.
✔✔3377.1 (b) "R" suffix continued - ✔✔An "R" suffix shall be affixed during reception
center processing if one of the following four criteria:
Inmate is required to register per PC Section 290
Inmate's parole was revoked by the board of prison terms/ good cause/probable cause
finding of an offense that is equivalent to an offense listed in PC Section 290
Inmate had a BPH formerly known as California Youth Authority/youth offender parole
board sustained adjudication of an offense that is equivalent to an offense listed in Pc
Section 290
Inmate had a valid "R" suffix evaluation as defined in this section, resulting in the "R"
suffix being affixed
,✔✔If a Unit Classification Committee (UCC) finds that an inmate no longer requires an
"R" suffix, the committee shall refer the case to - ✔✔the Institutional Classification
Committee (ICC) for review.
✔✔ICC can reverse an "R" suffix from a previous institution's ICC only if new and
compelling information is obtained - ✔✔Otherwise, the case shall be referred for a DRB
decision.
✔✔3321 (a) Confidential material - ✔✔The following types of information shall be
considered as confidential:
Information which, if known to the inmate would endanger the safety of any person.
Information which would jeopardize the security of the institution.
Specific medical or psychological information which, if known to the inmate, would be
medically or psychologically detrimental to the inmate.
Information provided and classified confidential by another government agency.
KEY: Person, Institution, Medical, Government
✔✔3321 (c ) confidential source - ✔✔A confidential source's reliability may be
established by one or more of the following criteria:
The confidential source has previously provided information which proved to be true.
Other confidential source has independently provided the same information.
The information provided by the confidential source is self incriminating.
Part of the information provided is corroborated through investigation or by information
provided by non-confidential sources.
The confidential source is the victim.
KEY: True, same, self, part, victim
✔✔3268. Use of Force - ✔✔Reasonable force:
Force that an objective, trained, competent correctional employee, faced with similar
facts and circumstances, would consider necessary and reasonable to:
gain compliance with a lawful order
overcome resistance
effect custody
subdue an attacker
KEY: GOES
✔✔Use of force continued - ✔✔Unnecessary-the use of force when none is required or
appropriate
Excessive force-the use of more force than is objectively reasonable to accomplish a
lawful purpose
Non deadly force-any use of force that is not likely to result in death
Deadly force-any use of force that is likely to result in death.
✔✔Use of force options - ✔✔The choices include but are not limited to:
, Physical strength and holds
Chemical agents and or other immobilization devices
Handheld batons
Less lethal weapons or firearms
✔✔Integrated housing - ✔✔Inmate housing assignments shall be made on the basis of
available documentation and individual case factors to implement an Integrated Housing
Policy (IHP).
✔✔Individual case factors include but are not limited to: - ✔✔¡History or racial violence
¡Commitment offense/time to serve
¡Classification score
¡Education
¡Disciplinary history
✔✔IH Codes: - ✔✔RE: Racially eligible
RO: Restricted to own
RR: Restricted by Refusal
RT: Restricted temporary
RP: Restricted partial
✔✔Staff will also consider other available information that would indicate or present an
immediate risk or safety concern for the inmate such as: - ✔✔Security issues including
ASU placement
Request for protective custody
Prison gang affiliation or association
Medical or mental health issues
Length of term
Age, weight and height
✔✔Program Failure (C status) (CCI responsible to place inmate on hard C status - ✔✔-
I/M that generates a significant disciplinary history w/in 180 days of the date of
discovery for most current RVR.
-A guilty finding for two serious Rules Violation Reports or one serious and two
administrative Rules Violation Reports within that 180 day time period is reasonable
evidence of a significant disciplinary history and may be considered a program failure.
✔✔Maximum Custody - ✔✔Housing shall be in cells in an approved segregated
program housing unit
✔✔Close Custody - ✔✔Housing shall be in cells within Level II, III and IV facilities in
housing units located within an established facility security perimeter. Housing shall be
in cells or in a designated Close Custody dormitory. all Close Custody inmates shall be
counted at noon each day.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Institution Classification Committees (ICC) consist of: - ✔✔•Warden or
CDW/chairperson
•Correctional administrator/AW
•Psychiatrist/physician
•Captain
•Correctional captain
•CCII/CCI
•Lieutenant
•Other staff as required
✔✔3377. Facility Security Levels - ✔✔Level 1- open dorms with low security perimeter
Level 2- open dorms with secure perimeter/possible gun coverage
Level 3- secure perimeter/gun coverage, housing units with cells adjacent to exterior
walls
Level 4- secure perimeter w/internal and external armed coverage, cell block housing
with cells non-adjacent to exterior walls
✔✔3377.1 Inmate Custody Designations - ✔✔Maximum (MAX)
Close A
Close B
Medium A
Medium B
Minimum A
Minimum B
✔✔3377.1 (b) "R" suffix - ✔✔An "R" suffix shall be affixed to an inmate's custody
designation to ensure the safety of inmates, correctional personnel, and the general
public by identifying inmates who have a history of specific sex offenses as outlined in
Penal Code (PC) Section 290.
Required documentation must be used.
✔✔3377.1 (b) "R" suffix continued - ✔✔An "R" suffix shall be affixed during reception
center processing if one of the following four criteria:
Inmate is required to register per PC Section 290
Inmate's parole was revoked by the board of prison terms/ good cause/probable cause
finding of an offense that is equivalent to an offense listed in PC Section 290
Inmate had a BPH formerly known as California Youth Authority/youth offender parole
board sustained adjudication of an offense that is equivalent to an offense listed in Pc
Section 290
Inmate had a valid "R" suffix evaluation as defined in this section, resulting in the "R"
suffix being affixed
,✔✔If a Unit Classification Committee (UCC) finds that an inmate no longer requires an
"R" suffix, the committee shall refer the case to - ✔✔the Institutional Classification
Committee (ICC) for review.
✔✔ICC can reverse an "R" suffix from a previous institution's ICC only if new and
compelling information is obtained - ✔✔Otherwise, the case shall be referred for a DRB
decision.
✔✔3321 (a) Confidential material - ✔✔The following types of information shall be
considered as confidential:
Information which, if known to the inmate would endanger the safety of any person.
Information which would jeopardize the security of the institution.
Specific medical or psychological information which, if known to the inmate, would be
medically or psychologically detrimental to the inmate.
Information provided and classified confidential by another government agency.
KEY: Person, Institution, Medical, Government
✔✔3321 (c ) confidential source - ✔✔A confidential source's reliability may be
established by one or more of the following criteria:
The confidential source has previously provided information which proved to be true.
Other confidential source has independently provided the same information.
The information provided by the confidential source is self incriminating.
Part of the information provided is corroborated through investigation or by information
provided by non-confidential sources.
The confidential source is the victim.
KEY: True, same, self, part, victim
✔✔3268. Use of Force - ✔✔Reasonable force:
Force that an objective, trained, competent correctional employee, faced with similar
facts and circumstances, would consider necessary and reasonable to:
gain compliance with a lawful order
overcome resistance
effect custody
subdue an attacker
KEY: GOES
✔✔Use of force continued - ✔✔Unnecessary-the use of force when none is required or
appropriate
Excessive force-the use of more force than is objectively reasonable to accomplish a
lawful purpose
Non deadly force-any use of force that is not likely to result in death
Deadly force-any use of force that is likely to result in death.
✔✔Use of force options - ✔✔The choices include but are not limited to:
, Physical strength and holds
Chemical agents and or other immobilization devices
Handheld batons
Less lethal weapons or firearms
✔✔Integrated housing - ✔✔Inmate housing assignments shall be made on the basis of
available documentation and individual case factors to implement an Integrated Housing
Policy (IHP).
✔✔Individual case factors include but are not limited to: - ✔✔¡History or racial violence
¡Commitment offense/time to serve
¡Classification score
¡Education
¡Disciplinary history
✔✔IH Codes: - ✔✔RE: Racially eligible
RO: Restricted to own
RR: Restricted by Refusal
RT: Restricted temporary
RP: Restricted partial
✔✔Staff will also consider other available information that would indicate or present an
immediate risk or safety concern for the inmate such as: - ✔✔Security issues including
ASU placement
Request for protective custody
Prison gang affiliation or association
Medical or mental health issues
Length of term
Age, weight and height
✔✔Program Failure (C status) (CCI responsible to place inmate on hard C status - ✔✔-
I/M that generates a significant disciplinary history w/in 180 days of the date of
discovery for most current RVR.
-A guilty finding for two serious Rules Violation Reports or one serious and two
administrative Rules Violation Reports within that 180 day time period is reasonable
evidence of a significant disciplinary history and may be considered a program failure.
✔✔Maximum Custody - ✔✔Housing shall be in cells in an approved segregated
program housing unit
✔✔Close Custody - ✔✔Housing shall be in cells within Level II, III and IV facilities in
housing units located within an established facility security perimeter. Housing shall be
in cells or in a designated Close Custody dormitory. all Close Custody inmates shall be
counted at noon each day.
