TCOLE BASIC JAILER CORRECT COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Booking - ✔✔recording of certain information relating to the inmate during the
admissions process
✔✔Detainer - ✔✔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 - ✔✔an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to receive and
place in jail the person so committed
✔✔Warrant - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔the examination of persons or property with the intention of finding
evidence ot in plain sight
,✔✔Contraband - ✔✔is considered to be any item, matrrisk, or substance that is
prohibited by law or agency directives
✔✔Strip Search - ✔✔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 - ✔✔basee on "probable casue" that the inmate is concealing
contrand in a body cavity
✔✔Tort - ✔✔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 - ✔✔a formal process for separating and managing inmates
and administering facilities based upon agency mission, classification goals, agency
resources, and inmate program needs
✔✔Trustee - ✔✔a person who, because of good conduct, is given some measure of
freedom in and around the prison or jail
✔✔Child - ✔✔means a person who is: 10 but under 17
✔✔Mental Illness - ✔✔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 - ✔✔is considered "a diminished capacity and inability to tell right fro wrong"
✔✔Psychosis - ✔✔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 - ✔✔false beliefs not based on factual information
✔✔Hallucination - ✔✔distortions in the senses which cause the individual to experience
hearing/seeing something that is not there
✔✔HIV - ✔✔is the common abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
, ✔✔AIDS - ✔✔is the common abbreviation for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
✔✔Tuberculosis - ✔✔commonly referred to as TB, is an infectious disease caused by a
bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis
✔✔Communicable Disease - ✔✔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 - ✔✔an aggressive act committed by any person, which does. ot amount yo
an assault and is necessary to accomplish one's objective
✔✔Custody - ✔✔(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
(b) under restraint by an agent or employee of a facility that is operated by or under
contract with the United States and that confines persons arrested for, charges withx or
convicted of criminal offenses
✔✔Escape - ✔✔mean unauthorized departure from custody or failure to return to
custody following temporary leave for a specific purpose or limited period or leave that
is part of an intermittent sentence, but does not include violation of conditions of
community supervision kr parole other than convictions that impose a period of
confinement in a secure correctional facility
✔✔Deadly Force - ✔✔means force that is intended or know by the actor to cause, or in
the manner of its use is capable of causing, death or serious bodily injury
✔✔Command Presence - ✔✔an officer's mere position of legal authority initiates
inamtes' cooperation
✔✔Uncooperative Inmate - ✔✔an inmate who refuses to come with any valid
commands given to him by an officer
✔✔Disruptive Group - ✔✔any group of inmates that pose a threat to the physical safety
of other inmates or staff by virtue of the group's nature and activities
✔✔Right - ✔✔a power, interest, or demand inherent in one person or established by
law for protection and benefit of a person
✔✔Privilege - ✔✔a particular benefit enjoyed by a person beyond the common
advantage of other citizens
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Booking - ✔✔recording of certain information relating to the inmate during the
admissions process
✔✔Detainer - ✔✔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 - ✔✔an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to receive and
place in jail the person so committed
✔✔Warrant - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔the examination of persons or property with the intention of finding
evidence ot in plain sight
,✔✔Contraband - ✔✔is considered to be any item, matrrisk, or substance that is
prohibited by law or agency directives
✔✔Strip Search - ✔✔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 - ✔✔basee on "probable casue" that the inmate is concealing
contrand in a body cavity
✔✔Tort - ✔✔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 - ✔✔a formal process for separating and managing inmates
and administering facilities based upon agency mission, classification goals, agency
resources, and inmate program needs
✔✔Trustee - ✔✔a person who, because of good conduct, is given some measure of
freedom in and around the prison or jail
✔✔Child - ✔✔means a person who is: 10 but under 17
✔✔Mental Illness - ✔✔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 - ✔✔is considered "a diminished capacity and inability to tell right fro wrong"
✔✔Psychosis - ✔✔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 - ✔✔false beliefs not based on factual information
✔✔Hallucination - ✔✔distortions in the senses which cause the individual to experience
hearing/seeing something that is not there
✔✔HIV - ✔✔is the common abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
, ✔✔AIDS - ✔✔is the common abbreviation for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
✔✔Tuberculosis - ✔✔commonly referred to as TB, is an infectious disease caused by a
bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis
✔✔Communicable Disease - ✔✔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 - ✔✔an aggressive act committed by any person, which does. ot amount yo
an assault and is necessary to accomplish one's objective
✔✔Custody - ✔✔(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
(b) under restraint by an agent or employee of a facility that is operated by or under
contract with the United States and that confines persons arrested for, charges withx or
convicted of criminal offenses
✔✔Escape - ✔✔mean unauthorized departure from custody or failure to return to
custody following temporary leave for a specific purpose or limited period or leave that
is part of an intermittent sentence, but does not include violation of conditions of
community supervision kr parole other than convictions that impose a period of
confinement in a secure correctional facility
✔✔Deadly Force - ✔✔means force that is intended or know by the actor to cause, or in
the manner of its use is capable of causing, death or serious bodily injury
✔✔Command Presence - ✔✔an officer's mere position of legal authority initiates
inamtes' cooperation
✔✔Uncooperative Inmate - ✔✔an inmate who refuses to come with any valid
commands given to him by an officer
✔✔Disruptive Group - ✔✔any group of inmates that pose a threat to the physical safety
of other inmates or staff by virtue of the group's nature and activities
✔✔Right - ✔✔a power, interest, or demand inherent in one person or established by
law for protection and benefit of a person
✔✔Privilege - ✔✔a particular benefit enjoyed by a person beyond the common
advantage of other citizens
