TCOLE Basic Jailer exam (Latest Update
) Questions with 100% Verified
Correct Answers [Grade A]
Who does the responsibility for providing county jails rests with? - correct answer
Commissioner Courts
Who operates county jails in the State of Texas? - correct answer The Sheriff
How many hours must instructors facilitate for a TCOLE Basic Correction Officer
course conduct? - correct answer 120 hours
Some jails in Texas are operated through who? - correct answer Contracted Vendors
What are the three primary concepts of jails? - correct answer Linear/Podular
Indirect/Podular Direct
an inmate supervision management style in which jailer(s) are stationed inside a
housing unit 24/7 - correct answer Direct Supervision
In popular design, cells form thr perimeter around what? - correct answer Common
Area
What design consists of linear hallways bordered by cells typically joined to a
centralized administrative area? - correct answer Linear
What are three reasons for inmate game-playing? - correct answer
Inactivity/Position/Status
Staff/Inmate relations are improved through what? - correct answer Effective
Communication/Humane Treatment
What are four results/effects of improved staff-inmate relations? - correct answer
Improved Morale/Good Rapport/Improved Jail Climate/Fewer Disciplinary Infractions
Fundamental duty, safeguarding lives and property, constitutional rights, an example to
all, courageous calm, self-restraint, honesty in thought and deed are major points of
what? - correct answer Corrections Officer Code of Ethics
,TCOLE Basic Jailer exam (Latest Update
) Questions with 100% Verified
Correct Answers [Grade A]
When making ethical decisions, what is the ACT method? - correct answer
Alternatives/Consequences/Tell Your Story
As what does a county corrections officer has official powers that they must be careful
to exercise with awareness of the possibilities for problems? - correct answer
Government Official
Ethics is concerned with that study of what? - correct answer Moral Duty
Who is the modern expert in ethics studies and along with others individuals
established five ethics principles? - correct answer Michael Josephson
What occurs when an employee is required to consent to unwelcome sexual advances
to obtain employment opportunities or benefits or when an employee is denied
opportunities or benefits because (s)he refused to consent to such conduct? - correct
answer Quid Pro Quo
Who can investigate sexual harassment allegations? - correct answer Equal
Employment Opprotunities Commission
occurs when an employer or other employee subjects an employee to sexual
innuendos, remarks, and/or physical acts so offensive that they "alter the conditions of
the employee's employment and create an abusive work enviornment" - correct
answer Hostile Work Enviornment
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 hag person or thing - correct answer Attitude
provides an outlet for projecting one's tensions and frustrations into other people -
correct answer Projection
provides a convenient group or person to blame when things go wrong in one's
personal life or in the community - correct answer Scapegoating
, TCOLE Basic Jailer exam (Latest Update
) Questions with 100% Verified
Correct Answers [Grade A]
What requires that no person be treated unfairly, unjustly, or with bias or prejudice? -
correct answer Impartial Enforcement of the Law
What cannot work for some unless it works for all? - correct answer Democracy
What is a fundamental requirement of all jailers? - correct answer Impartiality
Impartial treatment can serve as a basis for standards of behavior that can provide
internal agency discipline. What can help avoid the intrusion of personal bias and
values at all levels of operation, including the administrative level? - correct answer
Policies
Where can the foundation. of our government be found? - correct answer Preamble of
the Declaration of Independence
What is an organizational source of stress that can create a variety of stress
problems? - correct answer Understaffing
Problems amond who was creating more stress than any single factor except for
having to deal with hostile, demanding inmates? - correct answer Coworkers
Two significant sources of stress for some officers that may originate outside the jail. -
correct answer Poor Public Image/Poor Pay
a person's mental health condition with regard to their psychological and emotional
well-being - correct answer Mental Health
a psychological disorder characterized by the elevation or lowering of a person's
mood, such as depression or bipolar disorder - correct answer Mood Disorder
What are the two most common mokd disorders encountered by jailers? - correct
answer Depression/Bipolar
What percentage of adults aged 18 or older had a major depressive episode in 2014? -
correct answer 6.6%
) Questions with 100% Verified
Correct Answers [Grade A]
Who does the responsibility for providing county jails rests with? - correct answer
Commissioner Courts
Who operates county jails in the State of Texas? - correct answer The Sheriff
How many hours must instructors facilitate for a TCOLE Basic Correction Officer
course conduct? - correct answer 120 hours
Some jails in Texas are operated through who? - correct answer Contracted Vendors
What are the three primary concepts of jails? - correct answer Linear/Podular
Indirect/Podular Direct
an inmate supervision management style in which jailer(s) are stationed inside a
housing unit 24/7 - correct answer Direct Supervision
In popular design, cells form thr perimeter around what? - correct answer Common
Area
What design consists of linear hallways bordered by cells typically joined to a
centralized administrative area? - correct answer Linear
What are three reasons for inmate game-playing? - correct answer
Inactivity/Position/Status
Staff/Inmate relations are improved through what? - correct answer Effective
Communication/Humane Treatment
What are four results/effects of improved staff-inmate relations? - correct answer
Improved Morale/Good Rapport/Improved Jail Climate/Fewer Disciplinary Infractions
Fundamental duty, safeguarding lives and property, constitutional rights, an example to
all, courageous calm, self-restraint, honesty in thought and deed are major points of
what? - correct answer Corrections Officer Code of Ethics
,TCOLE Basic Jailer exam (Latest Update
) Questions with 100% Verified
Correct Answers [Grade A]
When making ethical decisions, what is the ACT method? - correct answer
Alternatives/Consequences/Tell Your Story
As what does a county corrections officer has official powers that they must be careful
to exercise with awareness of the possibilities for problems? - correct answer
Government Official
Ethics is concerned with that study of what? - correct answer Moral Duty
Who is the modern expert in ethics studies and along with others individuals
established five ethics principles? - correct answer Michael Josephson
What occurs when an employee is required to consent to unwelcome sexual advances
to obtain employment opportunities or benefits or when an employee is denied
opportunities or benefits because (s)he refused to consent to such conduct? - correct
answer Quid Pro Quo
Who can investigate sexual harassment allegations? - correct answer Equal
Employment Opprotunities Commission
occurs when an employer or other employee subjects an employee to sexual
innuendos, remarks, and/or physical acts so offensive that they "alter the conditions of
the employee's employment and create an abusive work enviornment" - correct
answer Hostile Work Enviornment
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 hag person or thing - correct answer Attitude
provides an outlet for projecting one's tensions and frustrations into other people -
correct answer Projection
provides a convenient group or person to blame when things go wrong in one's
personal life or in the community - correct answer Scapegoating
, TCOLE Basic Jailer exam (Latest Update
) Questions with 100% Verified
Correct Answers [Grade A]
What requires that no person be treated unfairly, unjustly, or with bias or prejudice? -
correct answer Impartial Enforcement of the Law
What cannot work for some unless it works for all? - correct answer Democracy
What is a fundamental requirement of all jailers? - correct answer Impartiality
Impartial treatment can serve as a basis for standards of behavior that can provide
internal agency discipline. What can help avoid the intrusion of personal bias and
values at all levels of operation, including the administrative level? - correct answer
Policies
Where can the foundation. of our government be found? - correct answer Preamble of
the Declaration of Independence
What is an organizational source of stress that can create a variety of stress
problems? - correct answer Understaffing
Problems amond who was creating more stress than any single factor except for
having to deal with hostile, demanding inmates? - correct answer Coworkers
Two significant sources of stress for some officers that may originate outside the jail. -
correct answer Poor Public Image/Poor Pay
a person's mental health condition with regard to their psychological and emotional
well-being - correct answer Mental Health
a psychological disorder characterized by the elevation or lowering of a person's
mood, such as depression or bipolar disorder - correct answer Mood Disorder
What are the two most common mokd disorders encountered by jailers? - correct
answer Depression/Bipolar
What percentage of adults aged 18 or older had a major depressive episode in 2014? -
correct answer 6.6%
