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TCOLE Basic Jailer CourseTCOLE [Texas Commission on Law Enforcement] - correct answer-is a state regulatory
agency for local law enforcement and county corrections systems within the state if Texas.
TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards] - correct answer-is the regulatory agency for all
county jails and privately operated municipal jails in the state.
The Occupations Code - correct answer-is the statutory authority for the Commission to
establish rules that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
Ethics - correct answer-the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty and
obligation.
Texas Ethics Commission - correct answer-was created in 1992 to administer and enforce
provisions relating to, among other things, the standards of conduct of state officers and
employees
Jail Climate - correct answer-the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the jail facility;
inmate playing games with staff
Stress - correct answer-a body condition that may occur when a person faces a threatening
or unfamiliar situation
Communication - correct answer-the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas and
information
Attitude - correct answer-is an organized and relatively unchanging combination of personal
knowledge and feelings about someone or something that influences him/her to behave in a
certain way in regard to that person or thing
Race - correct answer-generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and
physical characteristics
Ethnicity - correct answer-refers to shared culture and background
Ethnocentrism - correct answer-is "the act of regarding one's culture as the center of the
universe, and hence as the basis for all comparisons with other cultures"
Prejudice - correct answer-is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or without
knowledge of or examination of the facts
Culture - correct answer-a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
Discrimination - correct answer-acting on the basis if prejudice
,Sexual Harassment - correct answer-is deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior that is
not welcome, not asked for. and not returned or is unwelcome sexual or gender based
behavior
Booking - correct answer-recording of certain information relating to the inmate during the
admissions process
Detainer - correct answer-a report from that documents an agency's authority to retain a
person in custody pending a fulfillment of a legal obligation. or transfer to another jurisdiction
Commitment - correct answer-an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to receive
and place in jail the person so committed
Warrant - correct answer-a written order from magistrate, dies red to a peace officer or some
other person specifically named, commanding him to take the body of a person accused of
an offense, to be dealt with a cording to law
Capias - correct answer-is a wait issued by the court or clerk, and directed "to any peace
officer of the State of Texas", commanding him to arrest a person accused of an offense and
bring him before that court immediately, or on a day or at a term stated in the writ
Writ of Attachment - correct answer-is a writ issued by a clerk of a court under seal, or by
any magistrate, or by the foreman's of a grand jury, in any criminal action or proceeding
authorized by law, commanding some peace officer to take the body of a witness and bring
him before court, magistrate, or grand jury kn a day named, or forthwith, to testify in behalf of
the State or of the defendant, as the case may be
Magistrate's Warrant - correct answer-when a compelling is made to a magistrate that any
person within his jurisdiction is a fugitive from justice from another state, he shall issue a
warrant of arrest directing peace officer to apprehend and bring the accused before him
Search - correct answer-the examination of persons or property with the intention of finding
evidence ot in plain sight
Contraband - correct answer-is considered to be any item, matrrisk, or substance that is
prohibited by law or agency directives
Strip Search - correct answer-when facility personnel reasonably believe it to be necessary,
inmates should undergo a through strip search for weapons and contraband thsy may pose
a threat to the security of safety of thr facility
Cavity Search - correct answer-basee on "probable casue" that the inmate is concealing
contrand in a body cavity
Tort - correct answer-a civil or private wrong or injury for which s court will provide a remedy
in the form of an action for damages
, Objective Classification - correct answer-a formal process for separating and managing
inmates and administering facilities based upon agency mission, classification goals, agency
resources, and inmate program needs
Trustee - correct answer-a person who, because of good conduct, is given some measure of
freedom in and around the prison or jail
Child - correct answer-means a person who is: 10 but under 17
Mental Illness - correct answer-illness, disease, or condition that either substantially impacts
a person's thought, perception of reality, emotional process, or judgement, or grossly impairs
a person's behavior, as manifested by recent disturbance behavior
Insanity - correct answer-is considered "a diminished capacity and inability to tell right fro
wrong"
Psychosis - correct answer-a group of serious and often debilitating mental disorders that
may be of organic or psychological origins and are characterized by some or all of the
following symptoms:
impaired thinking and reasoning ability, perceptual distortions, inappropriate emotional
responses, inappropriate affect, regressive behavior, reduced impulse control and impaired
reasoning of reality
Delusion - correct answer-false beliefs not based on factual information
Hallucination - correct answer-distortions in the senses which cause the individual to
experience hearing/seeing something that is not there
HIV - correct answer-is the common abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
AIDS - correct answer-is the common abbreviation for Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome
Tuberculosis - correct answer-commonly referred to as TB, is an infectious disease caused
by a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis
Communicable Disease - correct answer-an illness that occurs through the transmission of
an infectious agent or its toxic products frk. resivior to a susceptible host, either directly, as
from an infected person or animal, or indirectly through an intermediate plant or animal host,
a vector, or the inanimate environment
Force - correct answer-an aggressive act committed by any person, which does. ot amount
yo an assault and is necessary to accomplish one's objective
Custody - correct answer-(a) under arrest by a peace officer or under restraint by a public
servant pursuant to an order of a court of this stage or another state of the United States; or
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