TCOLE COMPLETE LATEST BASIC
JAILER BASED ACTUAL SET WITH
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT/VERIFIED
ANSWERS
TCOLE [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
JAILER BASED ACTUAL SET WITH
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT/VERIFIED
ANSWERS
TCOLE [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
