BOP 2025 MIDTERM (ICT PHASE 2)
Empathy - Answers :Which of the following is not one of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Core Values? Accountability, Correctional Excellence, Integrity, Respect, Compassion
and Empathy?
True - Answers :First, Bureau policy requires that we care about inmates' needs.
True - Answers :Needs motivate behavior.
True - Answers :Understanding needs, is one of the keys to effective correctional
supervision.
Hierarchy of Needs - Answers :The most widely known and easily understood model is
A. H. Maslow's
Physical needs - Answers :Food, water, air, and shelter, clothing and protection are an
example of what type of need?
False - Answers :Security needs are high order needs, True or False?
Social - Answers :Our ________needs are the pivot point of the hierarchy.
False - Answers :Not everyone has a need for recognition, personal worth, and social
status.
Self Actualization needs - Answers :What is the highest level of human needs?
3 - Answers :How many principles of needs are there?
True - Answers :The BOP provides all the essentials: food, water, clothing, shelter, and
medical care. True or False?
Security needs - Answers :Supervising and patrolling the institution, conducting
shakedowns, inspecting safety hazards in inmate living and workspaces are examples
of what type of need?
Power - Answers :_____can be defined as the ability to cause an event to happen.
Inner Authority - Answers :Let's say you have a conversation with an inmate, and you
ask them to clean the community restrooms. This inmate in particular is rather difficult
and does not care to listen to correctional staff nor does the inmate care about the
sanctions of refusing work or a direct order. You are able to talk with them and get them
to comply with your orders because they have some level of respect for you specifically.
This is an example of what type of Authority?
, Positional Authority - Answers :What type of Authority is given to you by the Bureau by
your job title?
True - Answers :Any staff member can become a potential target for manipulation by
inmates. True or False?
True - Answers :An inmate tells you he has had a death in the family. He has no money
to buy stamps. He has used his quota of free letters and wants you to drop a sympathy
card into the mailbox near your home. You decide to do what the inmate asked. This a
potential manipulation tactic? True or False?
PPOL - Answers :Positioning, Posturing, Observing, and listening is abbreviated as
5-6 Feet - Answers :When you are dealing with 1 or more inmates, what is the
appropriate distance you should be standing away?
T Stance - Answers :placing one foot slightly forward of the other and putting weight on
the forward foot is an example of what?
True - Answers :Volunteer groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics
Anonymous (NA), and Rational Recovery (RR) also provide help within our institutions.
True or False?
Detoxification - Answers :Is the process by which a substance-dependent person gets
alcohol or drugs out of their system.
Home Brew - Answers :Water, Sugar, yeast, and some type of grain, typically potato
can be left to sit and ferment which can make what?
Inmate Litigation - Answers :_______ ________is one of the largest categories of
Litigation in the court system.
Negligence - Answers :_______is the failure to use reasonable care, the doing of
something which a reasonably prudent person would not do.
Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) - Answers :a special statute that was passed to provide
government employees protection when they are negligent.
Bivens Liability - Answers :If the United States is not liable for the international
misconduct of the government employees, then the liability remains with the individual
employee. This liability is referred to as?
Qualified Immunity - Answers :_______ _______is available to individual employees
who had a good faith belief they were acting within the scope of their employment and
did not violate a known constitutional right of another.
Empathy - Answers :Which of the following is not one of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Core Values? Accountability, Correctional Excellence, Integrity, Respect, Compassion
and Empathy?
True - Answers :First, Bureau policy requires that we care about inmates' needs.
True - Answers :Needs motivate behavior.
True - Answers :Understanding needs, is one of the keys to effective correctional
supervision.
Hierarchy of Needs - Answers :The most widely known and easily understood model is
A. H. Maslow's
Physical needs - Answers :Food, water, air, and shelter, clothing and protection are an
example of what type of need?
False - Answers :Security needs are high order needs, True or False?
Social - Answers :Our ________needs are the pivot point of the hierarchy.
False - Answers :Not everyone has a need for recognition, personal worth, and social
status.
Self Actualization needs - Answers :What is the highest level of human needs?
3 - Answers :How many principles of needs are there?
True - Answers :The BOP provides all the essentials: food, water, clothing, shelter, and
medical care. True or False?
Security needs - Answers :Supervising and patrolling the institution, conducting
shakedowns, inspecting safety hazards in inmate living and workspaces are examples
of what type of need?
Power - Answers :_____can be defined as the ability to cause an event to happen.
Inner Authority - Answers :Let's say you have a conversation with an inmate, and you
ask them to clean the community restrooms. This inmate in particular is rather difficult
and does not care to listen to correctional staff nor does the inmate care about the
sanctions of refusing work or a direct order. You are able to talk with them and get them
to comply with your orders because they have some level of respect for you specifically.
This is an example of what type of Authority?
, Positional Authority - Answers :What type of Authority is given to you by the Bureau by
your job title?
True - Answers :Any staff member can become a potential target for manipulation by
inmates. True or False?
True - Answers :An inmate tells you he has had a death in the family. He has no money
to buy stamps. He has used his quota of free letters and wants you to drop a sympathy
card into the mailbox near your home. You decide to do what the inmate asked. This a
potential manipulation tactic? True or False?
PPOL - Answers :Positioning, Posturing, Observing, and listening is abbreviated as
5-6 Feet - Answers :When you are dealing with 1 or more inmates, what is the
appropriate distance you should be standing away?
T Stance - Answers :placing one foot slightly forward of the other and putting weight on
the forward foot is an example of what?
True - Answers :Volunteer groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics
Anonymous (NA), and Rational Recovery (RR) also provide help within our institutions.
True or False?
Detoxification - Answers :Is the process by which a substance-dependent person gets
alcohol or drugs out of their system.
Home Brew - Answers :Water, Sugar, yeast, and some type of grain, typically potato
can be left to sit and ferment which can make what?
Inmate Litigation - Answers :_______ ________is one of the largest categories of
Litigation in the court system.
Negligence - Answers :_______is the failure to use reasonable care, the doing of
something which a reasonably prudent person would not do.
Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) - Answers :a special statute that was passed to provide
government employees protection when they are negligent.
Bivens Liability - Answers :If the United States is not liable for the international
misconduct of the government employees, then the liability remains with the individual
employee. This liability is referred to as?
Qualified Immunity - Answers :_______ _______is available to individual employees
who had a good faith belief they were acting within the scope of their employment and
did not violate a known constitutional right of another.
