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TDCJ OVERVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
What does PREA stand for? - ANS ✓Prison rape elimination act
Define the prison rape elimination act ombudsman office? - ANS ✓Created in
2008 to coordinate the agency's efforts to eliminate sexual assault in TDCJ
correctional facilities and provide an independent office to receive and respond
to allegations of sexual assault.
What does WSD stand for? - ANS ✓Windham school district
Define WSD? - ANS ✓Provides appropriate educational programs and services
to meet the needs of the eligible offenders population in TDCJ, thus reducing
recidivism by assisting offenders in becoming responsible, productive members
of society.
Define administrative review? - ANS ✓1. Promotes excellence in correctional
practice through policy development, monitoring, identifying areas of potential
risk or liability, and facilitating action to maintain safety, accountability,
efficiency and professionalism.
2. Their focus is on providing public safety, ensuring humane treatment of
adult felons, and facilitating effective operations of correctional units.
What does OGC stand for? - ANS ✓The office of the general counsel
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, TDCJ
Define OGC? - ANS ✓1. Provides quality legal support and services so that TDCJ
can lawfully fulfill its mission.
2. The OGC consists of 3 sections: legal affairs, litigation support and
program administration.
Executive administrative services? - ANS ✓1. Assist TDCJ staff and the Board
of Criminal Justice in fulfilling their missions, goals and objectives.
2. They function as a resource center by providing statistical analysis,
distribution of policies/directives, maintain record retention schedule,
coordinate the state employee charitable campaign and technical
assistance wherever needed.
What does CJAD stand for? - ANS ✓Community justice assistance division
Define CJAD? - ANS ✓Administers community supervision or adult probation in
Texas. TDCJ-CJAD does not work directly with offenders; rather, it works with the
community supervision and corrections departments which supervise the
offenders.
What does CID stand for? - ANS ✓Correctional institutions division
Define the correctional institutions division? - ANS ✓1. Is responsible for the
confinement of adult felony and state jail felony offenders who are sentenced to
prison.
2. The division oversees state prisons, pre-release facilities, psychiatric
facilities, mentally retarted offender programs, medical facilities, transfer
facilities, state jails, and substance abuse facilities (SAFPF)
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TDCJ
TDCJ OVERVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
What does PREA stand for? - ANS ✓Prison rape elimination act
Define the prison rape elimination act ombudsman office? - ANS ✓Created in
2008 to coordinate the agency's efforts to eliminate sexual assault in TDCJ
correctional facilities and provide an independent office to receive and respond
to allegations of sexual assault.
What does WSD stand for? - ANS ✓Windham school district
Define WSD? - ANS ✓Provides appropriate educational programs and services
to meet the needs of the eligible offenders population in TDCJ, thus reducing
recidivism by assisting offenders in becoming responsible, productive members
of society.
Define administrative review? - ANS ✓1. Promotes excellence in correctional
practice through policy development, monitoring, identifying areas of potential
risk or liability, and facilitating action to maintain safety, accountability,
efficiency and professionalism.
2. Their focus is on providing public safety, ensuring humane treatment of
adult felons, and facilitating effective operations of correctional units.
What does OGC stand for? - ANS ✓The office of the general counsel
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TDCJ
, TDCJ
Define OGC? - ANS ✓1. Provides quality legal support and services so that TDCJ
can lawfully fulfill its mission.
2. The OGC consists of 3 sections: legal affairs, litigation support and
program administration.
Executive administrative services? - ANS ✓1. Assist TDCJ staff and the Board
of Criminal Justice in fulfilling their missions, goals and objectives.
2. They function as a resource center by providing statistical analysis,
distribution of policies/directives, maintain record retention schedule,
coordinate the state employee charitable campaign and technical
assistance wherever needed.
What does CJAD stand for? - ANS ✓Community justice assistance division
Define CJAD? - ANS ✓Administers community supervision or adult probation in
Texas. TDCJ-CJAD does not work directly with offenders; rather, it works with the
community supervision and corrections departments which supervise the
offenders.
What does CID stand for? - ANS ✓Correctional institutions division
Define the correctional institutions division? - ANS ✓1. Is responsible for the
confinement of adult felony and state jail felony offenders who are sentenced to
prison.
2. The division oversees state prisons, pre-release facilities, psychiatric
facilities, mentally retarted offender programs, medical facilities, transfer
facilities, state jails, and substance abuse facilities (SAFPF)
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