MCLETC Exam 1 Questions And Answers Graded A+!!!

Country Sheriff Responsibilities - ANS Elected officer in a county who is responsible for keeping the peace and running a jail Religious services and counseling - ANS Detainees shall be afforded an opportunity to participate in Religious services and receive religious counseling. Frequency of commissary - ANS Provided regularly and not less than once a week. Profits go to inmate welfare. Restricted diets as punishment - ANS No more than 14 hours between evening meal and next morning Breakfast. Out of 3 meals 1 must be hot. No punishment on food per 8th amendment What is generally allowed within 1st hour? - ANS A reasonable number of completed phone calls both local and long distance to attorney or family member of choice. Training required for officers - ANS First aid, CPR, and Mental Health Revoking mail privileges - ANS No disciplinary restrictions shall be placed on mail privileges Rules for headcounts - ANS All detained must be taken and recorded at least 3 times per day Strip searches - ANS Private area, by person of same gender, no probing of body cavity unless suspicion of Contraband. Intrusive searches may only be done by medical personnel. Restraining pregnant detainees - ANS Restraints can be used unless the detainee is in active labor. Can't use Restraints on pregnant detainees being held in a country of 3 million or more inhabitants. Report on file Whenever retrains are applied. Guns in jails - ANS No person including law enforcement shall be permitted to enter any secure section of the Jail with a gun or other weapon on their person. Weapons shall be in secure or locked container outside Security area. Section 701.180 - ANS Mail procedures Jail heating and cooling standards - ANS Should be heated/cooled to be at comfortable temperatures depending on season. Ventilation system rid of disagreeable odors Jail and lighting standards - ANS Sufficient to assure comfortable reading at desk level. (at least 20ft candles at Height of 3 feet above floor) Compare a misdemeanor and a felony - ANS Misdemeanor is imprisonment Less than 1 year (364) Felony is sentenced to death or imprisonment for more than 1 year (365) Elements of theft - ANS (1)Obtains unauthorized control over property of another. (2) obtains by deception (lying) (3) obtains by threat (4) Obtains control over stolen property knowing it was stolen. (5) obtains Control over property in custody over Law Enforcement. Probable Cause, Proof beyond a reasonable doubt - ANS Reasonable grounds to believe Aggravating factors for assault / battery - ANS Special people (children, elderly, Law Enforcement) Special places (Public place) Special circumstances and Weapons. MACK P BART - ANS M- Murder A- Arson AGG C- Criminal sexual assault K- Kidnapping AGG P- Predatory criminal sexual assault B- Burgalry/ Residental Burglary A- Agg Batt/ R- Robbery T- Treason. LOW PHATT DNA & Child Porn - ANS Low(Leaving scene of motor vehicle accident involving death/ Personal injury or Agg DUI (death). (P) (H)-Homicide, (A) Arson Agg (T) Terrorism (T) Treason. (Child Porn is Misdemeanor 18 months) Define deadly force - ANS Under state law "deadly force" is that force which is likely to cause death or great bodily harm. Non-deadly force - ANS Generally, use of fists, feet, impact weapons, chemical weapons, restraint devices, and canines is analyzed as the application of non-Deadly force because application does not carry with it a substantial risk of Death or great bodily harm chokeholds - ANS A chokehold is, by definition, use of deadly force, and can ONLY be used when deadly force is otherwise authorized. A chokehold, or any lesser contact with the throat or neck area of another, is prohibited as a means to prevent the destruction of evidence by ingestion. The statute of limitations on most felonies is which of the following? - ANS 3 years The legal standard necessary to sustain a conviction is which of the following? - ANS Proof beyond reasonable doubt A person who by any means, lawful or unlawful, endangers the safety of another, commits the offense of ________________ if he/she recklessly performs an act which endangers the safety of another. - ANS Reckless conduct