CORRECTIONAL COUNSELOR FINAL PAPER 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Correctional Offender Management Profiling For Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) -
✔✔A validated automated needs assessment tool
-Will identify criminogenic needs which are most predictive of criminal behavior. The tool
identifies a needs value that demonstrates the level of need from high to low and shall
be utilized to assist in placing the inmate in a rehabilitative program.
-Also important for release plans (DAPO/PRCS)
✔✔"S" Suffix - ✔✔Requires single cell status
✔✔"R" Suffix - ✔✔Committed a sex crime
✔✔"M" suffix - ✔✔Special Internal designation for management. Used to track Min B
cases with pending case-work.
✔✔"D" suffix - ✔✔Approved for Dorm Placement. A Close Custody inmate that may be
housed within a dormitory environment. Affixed by an Institutional Classification
Committee (ICC). (I.E. health problems).
✔✔"O" suffix- - ✔✔Approved for Off Reservation work detail (ORWD)
✔✔"F" suffix - ✔✔Approved for Emergency Firefighting Crew
✔✔"Q" suffix - ✔✔Restricted Custody General Population
✔✔"X" suffix - ✔✔Assigned to Disaster Relief Team
✔✔An inmate may apply for restoration of 100 percent of any credit forfeited for a Div D
or E offense - ✔✔after remaining disciplinary free for 180 days.
✔✔An inmate may apply for restoration of 100 percent of any credit forfeited for a Div F
offense - ✔✔ü after remaining disciplinary free for 90 days.
✔✔ü Violent offenders or any sex offense, shall be eligible for the one-time credit
restoration application - ✔✔only if local law enforcement officials can be notified of the
inmate's release in not less than the 45-day time frame required by law.
✔✔CDC 840 - ✔✔Updating Classification Score Sheet (Calculating Points)
✔✔When to Use the CDC Form 839 - ✔✔All felon inmates who are newly received in
the CDCR shall be scored on a CDC Form 839. An inmate who has served a prior term
in the CDCR, but whose commitment is subsequently discharged, shall be processed
, as a newly received felon inmate. Parole Violators will not be scored on the CDC Form
839.
✔✔When to use the CDC Form 841 - ✔✔The CDC Form 841 is prepared when an
inmate's parole status has been revoked, the inmate has been returned from parole to a
reception center, and the parole period has been suspended. A CDC Form 841 shall
also be completed for an inmate whose parole is lawfully revoked because he/she
refused to sign conditions of parole. If the inmate is not physically paroled to the
community, the inmate's status shows that he/she has been paroled, revoked, and
returned the same day.
✔✔CDC 812 - ✔✔Updating Non-confidential enemy form
✔✔CDC 812C - ✔✔Updating Confidential Enemy form
✔✔CDC 127 - ✔✔Notice of Death or Serious Illness
✔✔CDC 128 B-1 - ✔✔72 hours prior to classification committee unless he signs to
waive 72 hour notification.
✔✔When to use the CDC Form 841 - ✔✔A CDC Form 841 shall also be completed for
an inmate whose parole is lawfully revoked because he/she refused to sign conditions
of parole. If the inmate is not physically paroled to the community, the inmate's status
shows that he/she has been paroled, revoked, and returned the same day.
✔✔Mandatory Minimum Score (Boxes 69-70) - ✔✔A Mandatory Minimum Score is a
numerical value identifying the least restrictive security level for an inmate who has a
case factor that requires he/she be housed no lower than a specific security level.
✔✔128-B - ✔✔General Chrono / Informational
✔✔128-B1 - ✔✔Notice of Classification Hearing
✔✔128-C - ✔✔RC Medical Clearance / Restriction Info
✔✔128D,E,&F - ✔✔Education Chronos
✔✔128G - ✔✔Classification - CSR Action
✔✔262 - ✔✔Custody Classification - Assignments
✔✔812 - ✔✔Non-Confidential Notice of Critical Case Info
✔✔812A - ✔✔Prison Gang Identification
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Correctional Offender Management Profiling For Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) -
✔✔A validated automated needs assessment tool
-Will identify criminogenic needs which are most predictive of criminal behavior. The tool
identifies a needs value that demonstrates the level of need from high to low and shall
be utilized to assist in placing the inmate in a rehabilitative program.
-Also important for release plans (DAPO/PRCS)
✔✔"S" Suffix - ✔✔Requires single cell status
✔✔"R" Suffix - ✔✔Committed a sex crime
✔✔"M" suffix - ✔✔Special Internal designation for management. Used to track Min B
cases with pending case-work.
✔✔"D" suffix - ✔✔Approved for Dorm Placement. A Close Custody inmate that may be
housed within a dormitory environment. Affixed by an Institutional Classification
Committee (ICC). (I.E. health problems).
✔✔"O" suffix- - ✔✔Approved for Off Reservation work detail (ORWD)
✔✔"F" suffix - ✔✔Approved for Emergency Firefighting Crew
✔✔"Q" suffix - ✔✔Restricted Custody General Population
✔✔"X" suffix - ✔✔Assigned to Disaster Relief Team
✔✔An inmate may apply for restoration of 100 percent of any credit forfeited for a Div D
or E offense - ✔✔after remaining disciplinary free for 180 days.
✔✔An inmate may apply for restoration of 100 percent of any credit forfeited for a Div F
offense - ✔✔ü after remaining disciplinary free for 90 days.
✔✔ü Violent offenders or any sex offense, shall be eligible for the one-time credit
restoration application - ✔✔only if local law enforcement officials can be notified of the
inmate's release in not less than the 45-day time frame required by law.
✔✔CDC 840 - ✔✔Updating Classification Score Sheet (Calculating Points)
✔✔When to Use the CDC Form 839 - ✔✔All felon inmates who are newly received in
the CDCR shall be scored on a CDC Form 839. An inmate who has served a prior term
in the CDCR, but whose commitment is subsequently discharged, shall be processed
, as a newly received felon inmate. Parole Violators will not be scored on the CDC Form
839.
✔✔When to use the CDC Form 841 - ✔✔The CDC Form 841 is prepared when an
inmate's parole status has been revoked, the inmate has been returned from parole to a
reception center, and the parole period has been suspended. A CDC Form 841 shall
also be completed for an inmate whose parole is lawfully revoked because he/she
refused to sign conditions of parole. If the inmate is not physically paroled to the
community, the inmate's status shows that he/she has been paroled, revoked, and
returned the same day.
✔✔CDC 812 - ✔✔Updating Non-confidential enemy form
✔✔CDC 812C - ✔✔Updating Confidential Enemy form
✔✔CDC 127 - ✔✔Notice of Death or Serious Illness
✔✔CDC 128 B-1 - ✔✔72 hours prior to classification committee unless he signs to
waive 72 hour notification.
✔✔When to use the CDC Form 841 - ✔✔A CDC Form 841 shall also be completed for
an inmate whose parole is lawfully revoked because he/she refused to sign conditions
of parole. If the inmate is not physically paroled to the community, the inmate's status
shows that he/she has been paroled, revoked, and returned the same day.
✔✔Mandatory Minimum Score (Boxes 69-70) - ✔✔A Mandatory Minimum Score is a
numerical value identifying the least restrictive security level for an inmate who has a
case factor that requires he/she be housed no lower than a specific security level.
✔✔128-B - ✔✔General Chrono / Informational
✔✔128-B1 - ✔✔Notice of Classification Hearing
✔✔128-C - ✔✔RC Medical Clearance / Restriction Info
✔✔128D,E,&F - ✔✔Education Chronos
✔✔128G - ✔✔Classification - CSR Action
✔✔262 - ✔✔Custody Classification - Assignments
✔✔812 - ✔✔Non-Confidential Notice of Critical Case Info
✔✔812A - ✔✔Prison Gang Identification
