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CORRECTIONAL OFFICER BASIC TRAINING TEST BANK SOLUTION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
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⩥ Assault. Answer: PC 22. ⩥ Sexual Assault. Answer: PC 22. ⩥ Aggravated Assault. Answer: PC 22. ⩥ Aggravated Sexual Assault. Answer: PC 22. ⩥ Theft. Answer: PC 31. ⩥ Tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. Answer: PC 37. ⩥ Tampering with governmental record. Answer: PC 37. ⩥ Permitting or facilitating escape. Answer: PC 38. ⩥ Implements for escape. Answer: PC 38.
⩥ Prohibited substances in a correctional facility. Answer: PC 38. ⩥ Abuse of official capacity. Answer: PC 39. ⩥ Official oppression. Answer: PC 39. ⩥ Violations of civil rights - person in custody. Answer: PC 39. ⩥ Failure to report death of prisoner. Answer: PC 39. ⩥ Misuse of official information. Answer: PC 39. ⩥ Shaw v. Stroud. Answer: A supervisor may be liable for acts of subordinates even when the supervisor has no direct involvement if the supervisor has failed to document and take corrective action for prior similar acts of misconduct. ⩥ City of Canton v. Harris. Answer: An agency that fails to train officers for recurring tasks that law enforcement officers face may be liable for failing to train the officers, where the lack of training foreseeably leads to a constitutional violation.
⩥ Eighth Amendment. Answer: 1. The right to bail
⩥ Texas Ethics Commission. Answer: 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; inmates 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: 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. Since no "pure" races remain, some prefer to avoid reference to race and instead discuss group differences under the heading of ethnicity
⩥ Detainer. Answer: a report form that documents and 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 - CCP 16. and 16. ⩥ Warrant. Answer: a written order from magistrate, directed to a peace officer or some other person specially named, commanding him to take the body of the person accused of an offense, to be dealt with according to law ⩥ Capias. Answer: a writ 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 (Bench Warrant). Answer: a writ issued by a clerk of a court under seal, or by any magistrate, or by the foreman 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 such court, magistrate or grand jury on a day named, or forthwith, to testify on behalf of the State or of the defendant, as the case may be. It shall be dated and signed officially by the officer issuing it
⩥ Magistrate's Warrant. Answer: when a complaint 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 a peace officer to apprehend and bring the accused before him ⩥ Search. Answer: the examination of persons or property with the intention of finding evidence not in plain sight ⩥ Contraband. Answer: considered to be any item, material, or substance that is prohibited by law or agency directives ⩥ Strip Search. Answer: when facility personnel reasonably believe it to be necessary, inmates should undergo a thorough strip search for weapons and contraband that may pose a threat to the security or safety of the facility. The strip search shall be conducted by jailer(s) of the same gender in a reasonable and dignified manner and place ⩥ Cavity Search. Answer: based on "probable cause" that the inmate is concealing contraband in a body cavity (must be performed by medical personnel) ⩥ Tort. Answer: a civil or private wrong or injury for which a court with provide a remedy in the form of an action for damages
⩥ Psychosis. Answer: a group of serious and often debilitating mental disorders that may be of organic or psychological origin 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. Answer: false beliefs not based on factual information. The person may overreact to the situations or may appear to have what is called a "flat affect," where he shows no emotion or does not seem to care about what is going on around him ⩥ Hallucinations. Answer: distortions in the senses which cause the individuals to experience hearing or seeing something that is not there. This disruption can affect all five of our senses however; visual and auditory are the most common ⩥ HIV. Answer: the common abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus ⩥
