CORRECTIONAL COUNSELOR CC1 MAIN EXAM TEST 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔3 reasons for ASU placement - ✔✔- 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? - ✔✔- 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 - ✔✔- 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 - ✔✔- TABE score under 4.0
- 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 officers report
+ ISRS: Institutional staff recommendations summary
✔✔2 types of classification committees - ✔✔- Unit (UCC)
- Institutional (ICC)
✔✔Unit committees (UCC) consist of: - ✔✔- Captain/chair
- CCIII
,- CCII
- LT
- Others as needed
✔✔Institutional committees (ICC) consist of: - ✔✔- Warden/CDW/chair
- Correctional administrator/AW
- Psychiatrist/physician
- Captain
- CCII/CCI
- LT
- Others as needed
- DDP designations (1, 2, & 3)
✔✔What do UCC's do? - ✔✔- Review I/M's cases at least annually to consider the
accuracy of the I/M's score, custody level, program and group placement, and
recommendation for transfer
+ A parole violator's first annual review may be delayed for up to 5 months so that it will
coincide with score updates
- Change in I/M's WG and PG
- Conduct post board classification on an I/M within 15 days of receipt of official notice
of a BPH decision regarding the I/M
- Act on an I/M's request for restoration of forfeited credits for less than C offenses per
section 3327
- Review confidential info to ensure the standards for confidential info have been met
per section 3321
✔✔What do ICC's do? - ✔✔- Recommend transfer of I/Ms
- Act on cases referred by lower committees
- Review I/M requests for meritorious sentence reduction to determine compliance with
PC section 2935
- Make classification service recommendations through the chief for cases requiring
DRB decisions
- Change an I/M's work/privilege group
- Review confidential info to ensure the standards for confidential info have been met
per section
3321
- Review a validated STG I/M's validation package and CDC Form 128-G
- Determine a validated STG I/M's housing and program needs
- Evaluate an affiliate's overall dispo record and case factors in determining placement
in the SHU SDP or continued management within a GP setting per CCR sections
3378.2 or
3378.4
✔✔10 criteria for close custody - ✔✔- LWOP
- Multiple life terms
- 40 years or more
, - Single life term
- 25-40 years
- Escape or attempt with force
- Escape w/o force
- Plotting/planning escape
- Detainers
- Dispo for murder of a person in custody who is not an I/M
- Dispo for murder of an I/M within 10 years
- Division A1 or A2 RVR
- Inactive prison gang
- Security concern
✔✔Close custody is granted for 1-2 years for I/M's found guilty of: - ✔✔- Division A1
RVR
- Division A2 RVR
+ Length depends on the threat perceived
✔✔Close custody is granted for 3 years for I/M's found guilty of: - ✔✔- Planning an
escape
✔✔Close custody is granted for 8 years for I/M's found guilty of: - ✔✔- Escape or
attempt without force within 10 years
✔✔Close custody is granted for 5 years for I/M's with active detainers for offenses with
penalties for: - ✔✔- Death
- Lifetime incarceration
- Term of 50 years or more
✔✔Close custody is granted for 5 years for I/M's sentenced to: - ✔✔- 25 years or more
- LWOP
- 1 or more life terms
✔✔Close custody is granted for 10 years for I/M's found guilty of: - ✔✔- Escape or
attempt with force within 10 years
- Murder of an I/M within 10 years
✔✔Close custody is granted permanently for I/M's found guilty of: - ✔✔Murder of a
person in custody who is not an I/M
✔✔Close custody can be granted for I/M's if: - ✔✔- The ICC designates security
concern(s)
- These cases require CSR referral for a SEC AD
- Retaining close custody status beyond 2 years requires DRB approval
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔3 reasons for ASU placement - ✔✔- 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? - ✔✔- 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 - ✔✔- 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 - ✔✔- TABE score under 4.0
- 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 officers report
+ ISRS: Institutional staff recommendations summary
✔✔2 types of classification committees - ✔✔- Unit (UCC)
- Institutional (ICC)
✔✔Unit committees (UCC) consist of: - ✔✔- Captain/chair
- CCIII
,- CCII
- LT
- Others as needed
✔✔Institutional committees (ICC) consist of: - ✔✔- Warden/CDW/chair
- Correctional administrator/AW
- Psychiatrist/physician
- Captain
- CCII/CCI
- LT
- Others as needed
- DDP designations (1, 2, & 3)
✔✔What do UCC's do? - ✔✔- Review I/M's cases at least annually to consider the
accuracy of the I/M's score, custody level, program and group placement, and
recommendation for transfer
+ A parole violator's first annual review may be delayed for up to 5 months so that it will
coincide with score updates
- Change in I/M's WG and PG
- Conduct post board classification on an I/M within 15 days of receipt of official notice
of a BPH decision regarding the I/M
- Act on an I/M's request for restoration of forfeited credits for less than C offenses per
section 3327
- Review confidential info to ensure the standards for confidential info have been met
per section 3321
✔✔What do ICC's do? - ✔✔- Recommend transfer of I/Ms
- Act on cases referred by lower committees
- Review I/M requests for meritorious sentence reduction to determine compliance with
PC section 2935
- Make classification service recommendations through the chief for cases requiring
DRB decisions
- Change an I/M's work/privilege group
- Review confidential info to ensure the standards for confidential info have been met
per section
3321
- Review a validated STG I/M's validation package and CDC Form 128-G
- Determine a validated STG I/M's housing and program needs
- Evaluate an affiliate's overall dispo record and case factors in determining placement
in the SHU SDP or continued management within a GP setting per CCR sections
3378.2 or
3378.4
✔✔10 criteria for close custody - ✔✔- LWOP
- Multiple life terms
- 40 years or more
, - Single life term
- 25-40 years
- Escape or attempt with force
- Escape w/o force
- Plotting/planning escape
- Detainers
- Dispo for murder of a person in custody who is not an I/M
- Dispo for murder of an I/M within 10 years
- Division A1 or A2 RVR
- Inactive prison gang
- Security concern
✔✔Close custody is granted for 1-2 years for I/M's found guilty of: - ✔✔- Division A1
RVR
- Division A2 RVR
+ Length depends on the threat perceived
✔✔Close custody is granted for 3 years for I/M's found guilty of: - ✔✔- Planning an
escape
✔✔Close custody is granted for 8 years for I/M's found guilty of: - ✔✔- Escape or
attempt without force within 10 years
✔✔Close custody is granted for 5 years for I/M's with active detainers for offenses with
penalties for: - ✔✔- Death
- Lifetime incarceration
- Term of 50 years or more
✔✔Close custody is granted for 5 years for I/M's sentenced to: - ✔✔- 25 years or more
- LWOP
- 1 or more life terms
✔✔Close custody is granted for 10 years for I/M's found guilty of: - ✔✔- Escape or
attempt with force within 10 years
- Murder of an I/M within 10 years
✔✔Close custody is granted permanently for I/M's found guilty of: - ✔✔Murder of a
person in custody who is not an I/M
✔✔Close custody can be granted for I/M's if: - ✔✔- The ICC designates security
concern(s)
- These cases require CSR referral for a SEC AD
- Retaining close custody status beyond 2 years requires DRB approval
