Jail School Exam 2 – 2026 – Practice Questions and
Study Review
What are the things that every medication label should include? - correct answer ✔✔ Name of
the pharmacy; Patient's name; Prescribing doctor's name; Date the prescription is filled;
Number of prescriptions; Name of drug; Dosage; Instruction for taking; Initials of pharmacist.
What are some example of non-approved weapons that a jail officer may not carry or use? -
correct answer ✔✔ Saps; Billies; Brass or metal knuckles; Knives.
Describe professionalism and how a professional officer is identified? - correct answer ✔✔
Professionalism is a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive
academic preparation; a principal calling, vocation or employment; the whole body of person
engaged in a calling.
A professional law enforcement officer may be identified by his/her conduct, knowledge, and
obligation to serve the public and the agency.
What are the four distinguishing characteristics of a professional? - correct answer ✔✔ A
common area or standard of knowledge; Members meet or exceed certain set standards of
qualifications; controlled or guided by a state/national governing organization; a nationwide
standard of conduct.
What is ethics? - correct answer ✔✔ What is good or bad, or what is right or wrong, based on
what is morally expected of a person.
List and describe 4 influences of ethical behavior. - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Peer pressure:
Needing or wanting to associate with others to feel accepted, or have a need to belong.
2. Social Control: The expectations of society that hold the tendencies of deviant or criminal
behavior in check.
, 3. Fear or Punishment: Fear of being disciplined or punished for not adhering to standards of
conduct, written laws, or unwritten laws.
4. Training: Many people behave in an ethical manner simply because that is what they have
been conditioned or trained to do.
List and describe 3 reasons for ethical behavior. - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Personal Pride: knowing
that you are doing the right thing and what is expected of you by the administration and the
community.
2. Rules and Regulations: A specific set of rule and regulations to safely and securely operate
the facility.
3. Upward Mobility: Doing the job to best of your ability.
4. Role Model: A jail officer that carries themselves with pride and adhere to the rules and
regulations of the facility.
5.Avoid the Set-up: Jail officers that utilize good judgement based on ethical and professional
standards are less likely to become entrapped in inmate con games and fall prey to being set-up.
What is the Correctional Officer's Code of Conduct? - correct answer ✔✔ As a Correctional
Officer, I regard myself as a member of an important and honorable profession.
I will keep myself in the best possible physical condition at all times.
I will perform my duty with efficiency at all times.
I will be exemplary in my conduct, edifying in my conversation, honest in my dealings, an
obedient to the laws of the city, state, and country.
I will regard my oath as I regard my sacred honor.
I will not, in the performance of my duty, work for personal advantage or profit.
I will at all times recognize that I am a public servant.
I will give the most efficient and impartial service of which I am capable at all times.
I will be courteous in my contacts at all times.
I will regard my fellow officers with the same standards as I hold myself.
I will guard my fellow officer's honor and life as I guard my own.
, I will be loyal to my fellow officers, my supervisors, and my institution.
I will accept responsibility for my actions.
I will do only those things that will reflect honor on my fellow officers, my institution, and
myself.
List and describe 6 types of unethical conduct. - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Dishonesty: The most
degrading act of unethical behavior.
2. Prejudice: There is no place in law enforcement for prejudice against anyone because of their
race, age, sex, national origin, or religion, etc.
3. Civil Rights Violations: An officer cannot feel privileged to violate another person's civil rights.
4. Accepting Gratuities: An officer has no right to receive anything of value from anybody
outside of the employer for performing the job.
5. Apathy: When an officer observes unethical conduct of others bur fails to report that
misconduct.
6. Sexual Misconduct: When an officer allows themselves or is put into a situation where
unethical relationships with informants, victims, co-workers, or others arise.
Describe civil rights violations where an officer may misuse his/her authority. - correct answer
✔✔ An officer can misuse their authority by deliberately interfering with an inmate's protected
right under the U.S. Constitution and the amendments referred to as the Bill of Rights.
How can an officer determine if a discount is legitimate or a prohibited gratuity? - correct
answer ✔✔ The only exception to this is when something is given to an officer because he or
she is part of a much larger group that receives the same thing and the occupation value is not
considered.
How can personal behavior outside the jail affect a detention officer? - correct answer ✔✔
Personal behavior can cause discredit as a prosecution witness, sexual advances by inmates, or
give cause to terminate your employment.
Study Review
What are the things that every medication label should include? - correct answer ✔✔ Name of
the pharmacy; Patient's name; Prescribing doctor's name; Date the prescription is filled;
Number of prescriptions; Name of drug; Dosage; Instruction for taking; Initials of pharmacist.
What are some example of non-approved weapons that a jail officer may not carry or use? -
correct answer ✔✔ Saps; Billies; Brass or metal knuckles; Knives.
Describe professionalism and how a professional officer is identified? - correct answer ✔✔
Professionalism is a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive
academic preparation; a principal calling, vocation or employment; the whole body of person
engaged in a calling.
A professional law enforcement officer may be identified by his/her conduct, knowledge, and
obligation to serve the public and the agency.
What are the four distinguishing characteristics of a professional? - correct answer ✔✔ A
common area or standard of knowledge; Members meet or exceed certain set standards of
qualifications; controlled or guided by a state/national governing organization; a nationwide
standard of conduct.
What is ethics? - correct answer ✔✔ What is good or bad, or what is right or wrong, based on
what is morally expected of a person.
List and describe 4 influences of ethical behavior. - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Peer pressure:
Needing or wanting to associate with others to feel accepted, or have a need to belong.
2. Social Control: The expectations of society that hold the tendencies of deviant or criminal
behavior in check.
, 3. Fear or Punishment: Fear of being disciplined or punished for not adhering to standards of
conduct, written laws, or unwritten laws.
4. Training: Many people behave in an ethical manner simply because that is what they have
been conditioned or trained to do.
List and describe 3 reasons for ethical behavior. - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Personal Pride: knowing
that you are doing the right thing and what is expected of you by the administration and the
community.
2. Rules and Regulations: A specific set of rule and regulations to safely and securely operate
the facility.
3. Upward Mobility: Doing the job to best of your ability.
4. Role Model: A jail officer that carries themselves with pride and adhere to the rules and
regulations of the facility.
5.Avoid the Set-up: Jail officers that utilize good judgement based on ethical and professional
standards are less likely to become entrapped in inmate con games and fall prey to being set-up.
What is the Correctional Officer's Code of Conduct? - correct answer ✔✔ As a Correctional
Officer, I regard myself as a member of an important and honorable profession.
I will keep myself in the best possible physical condition at all times.
I will perform my duty with efficiency at all times.
I will be exemplary in my conduct, edifying in my conversation, honest in my dealings, an
obedient to the laws of the city, state, and country.
I will regard my oath as I regard my sacred honor.
I will not, in the performance of my duty, work for personal advantage or profit.
I will at all times recognize that I am a public servant.
I will give the most efficient and impartial service of which I am capable at all times.
I will be courteous in my contacts at all times.
I will regard my fellow officers with the same standards as I hold myself.
I will guard my fellow officer's honor and life as I guard my own.
, I will be loyal to my fellow officers, my supervisors, and my institution.
I will accept responsibility for my actions.
I will do only those things that will reflect honor on my fellow officers, my institution, and
myself.
List and describe 6 types of unethical conduct. - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Dishonesty: The most
degrading act of unethical behavior.
2. Prejudice: There is no place in law enforcement for prejudice against anyone because of their
race, age, sex, national origin, or religion, etc.
3. Civil Rights Violations: An officer cannot feel privileged to violate another person's civil rights.
4. Accepting Gratuities: An officer has no right to receive anything of value from anybody
outside of the employer for performing the job.
5. Apathy: When an officer observes unethical conduct of others bur fails to report that
misconduct.
6. Sexual Misconduct: When an officer allows themselves or is put into a situation where
unethical relationships with informants, victims, co-workers, or others arise.
Describe civil rights violations where an officer may misuse his/her authority. - correct answer
✔✔ An officer can misuse their authority by deliberately interfering with an inmate's protected
right under the U.S. Constitution and the amendments referred to as the Bill of Rights.
How can an officer determine if a discount is legitimate or a prohibited gratuity? - correct
answer ✔✔ The only exception to this is when something is given to an officer because he or
she is part of a much larger group that receives the same thing and the occupation value is not
considered.
How can personal behavior outside the jail affect a detention officer? - correct answer ✔✔
Personal behavior can cause discredit as a prosecution witness, sexual advances by inmates, or
give cause to terminate your employment.
