TCOLE Practice Jailer Exam – 2026 – Study Guide and Practice
Questions
Identify the Constitutional Amendment that creates the following rights contained in the Bill of
Rights: Freedom against Discrimination or Segregation - correct answer ✔✔ Fourteenth
_______ is a set of rules and standards that governs individual conduct - correct answer ✔✔
ethics
a writ issued by the court or clerk and directed to "any peach 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 is a: - correct answer ✔✔ Capias
This type of hostage taker plans incidents well and their intent is to be "heard" by someone
other than correctional stagg: - correct answer ✔✔ grievance airer
Improper use of force or excessive force may subject corrections officer to: - correct answer ✔✔
civil and criminal liability
with PTSD, the onset of symptoms re-experiencing the event may be delayed up to _____ or
longer - correct answer ✔✔ 6 months
CCP, article 49.18 states "if a prisoner dies while confined in a jail or prison, the director of the
law enforcement agency of the facility in which the prisoner was confined shall investigate the
death and file a written report of the cause of death with the attorney general no later than the
_____ day after the date one which the prisoner died." - correct answer ✔✔ 30th
an uncooperative inmate does not include: - correct answer ✔✔ lethargic
Questions
Identify the Constitutional Amendment that creates the following rights contained in the Bill of
Rights: Freedom against Discrimination or Segregation - correct answer ✔✔ Fourteenth
_______ is a set of rules and standards that governs individual conduct - correct answer ✔✔
ethics
a writ issued by the court or clerk and directed to "any peach 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 is a: - correct answer ✔✔ Capias
This type of hostage taker plans incidents well and their intent is to be "heard" by someone
other than correctional stagg: - correct answer ✔✔ grievance airer
Improper use of force or excessive force may subject corrections officer to: - correct answer ✔✔
civil and criminal liability
with PTSD, the onset of symptoms re-experiencing the event may be delayed up to _____ or
longer - correct answer ✔✔ 6 months
CCP, article 49.18 states "if a prisoner dies while confined in a jail or prison, the director of the
law enforcement agency of the facility in which the prisoner was confined shall investigate the
death and file a written report of the cause of death with the attorney general no later than the
_____ day after the date one which the prisoner died." - correct answer ✔✔ 30th
an uncooperative inmate does not include: - correct answer ✔✔ lethargic
