History of LE/Corrections
Security Classifications
Corrections Lingo
CCJ Facts
100

The earliest form of Corrections

Hammurabi's Code

"An eye for an eye"

100

The three security classifications at the Cumberland county jail are minimum, ______, and maximum.

medium

100

Another name for a housing unit.

Pod.

100

The approximate number of officers on a shift.

30.

200

Modern day corrections is focused on this.

Rehabilitation. 

200

Orange is worn by this security classification.

General population males.

200

The academy all CO's in Maine attend is know as BCTP (_____)

Basic Corrections Training Program.

200

The number of officers preferably assigned to a housing unit.

2.

300

The first jail built in the United states was built in Philadelphia, it was called the _____

Walnut Street Jail.

Built in 1790.

300

True or false: Security Classifications at the CCJ do not mix.

True. 

300

Law enforcement and the military used their own alphabet, also known as 

Phonetics.

300

The year the current jail was built.

1994.

400

The term "sheriff" comes from what early law enforcement title.

"Shire reeve"

400

The official name for the minimum security unit.

Community Corrections Center.

400

LE/ Corrections talk in codes such as 

10-4: Acknowledge

10-9: Repeat 

They are known as: 

Ten codes.

400

The Sheriff of Cumberland County.

Sheriff Kevin Joyce.

500

Sir Robert Peele is the founder of modern law enforcement. He formed the British Metropolitan Police in 1829, also known as _____.

Scotland Yard. 

500

Maximum security inmates are housed in the ___.

SHU - Special Housing Unit. 

500

Those trusted with working in the jail are known by this oxymoron:

Trustee(s)

500

Cumberland County Sheriff's Office motto is:

First to serve, ____

1760.