TCOLE BASIC JAILER COURSE ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION
●● TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards]
Answer: is the regulatory agency for all county jails and privately
operated municipal jails in the state.
●● The Occupations Code
Answer: is the statutory authority for the Commission to establish rules
that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
●● Ethics
Answer: the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral
duty and obligation.
●● Texas Ethics Commission
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
,Answer: the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the jail
facility; inmate playing games with staff
●● Stress
Answer: a body condition that may occur when a person faces a
threatening or unfamiliar situation
●● Communication
Answer: the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas and
information
●● Attitude
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
Answer: generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and
physical characteristics
●● Ethnicity
Answer: refers to shared culture and background
,●● Ethnocentrism
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
Answer: is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or
without knowledge of or examination of the facts
●● Culture
Answer: a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
●● Discrimination
Answer: acting on the basis if prejudice
●● Sexual Harassment
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
Answer: recording of certain information relating to the inmate during
the admissions process
, ●● Detainer
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
Answer: an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to receive
and place in jail the person so committed
●● Warrant
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
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
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
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION
●● TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards]
Answer: is the regulatory agency for all county jails and privately
operated municipal jails in the state.
●● The Occupations Code
Answer: is the statutory authority for the Commission to establish rules
that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
●● Ethics
Answer: the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral
duty and obligation.
●● Texas Ethics Commission
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
,Answer: the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the jail
facility; inmate playing games with staff
●● Stress
Answer: a body condition that may occur when a person faces a
threatening or unfamiliar situation
●● Communication
Answer: the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas and
information
●● Attitude
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
Answer: generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and
physical characteristics
●● Ethnicity
Answer: refers to shared culture and background
,●● Ethnocentrism
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
Answer: is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or
without knowledge of or examination of the facts
●● Culture
Answer: a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
●● Discrimination
Answer: acting on the basis if prejudice
●● Sexual Harassment
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
Answer: recording of certain information relating to the inmate during
the admissions process
, ●● Detainer
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
Answer: an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to receive
and place in jail the person so committed
●● Warrant
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
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
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
