Question #1

How many of the following are predictors of set ups?

a) Inmates ignore the officers and staff.

b) Rudness and uncooperativeness with their daily life.

c) Inmate threatens to sue the the prison for the food.

d) The inmate is willing to go the extra mile and work harder for you in your area or situation.

e) The inmate stays to himself and obey all laws.

Question #2

What is the best thing to say to inmates asking for favors or testing your limits to see if they can get ou to bend the rules a little bit.

a) Just leave alone or your can do a few laps.

b) “I am not talking about this again with you, you know my policy.”

c) Say nothing, just being a professional and be cold as ice staring then in the eyes rudely, trying to scare them away.

d) If I told you once, I told you a million times.

e) Say I will let you smoke on the tier if you just go away and leave me alone.

Question #3

what is the best attitude to display to deter manipulation?

a) Professional.

b) Aggressive don't mess with me attitudes.

c) Authoritarian

d) docile

e) Labile, with changing attiudes including all the above and leaving them guessing what is next?

Question #4

when is the best time during the set up process to establish a safe distance or involvement within the environment of the inmates?

a) As soon as a minor violation is noticed from the inmate?

b) When you can find time alone with inmates and go mostly unnoticed in their environment?

c) Before the inmates get a chance to begin manipulative behaviors, keeping distance physically and behaviorally is the safest approach?

d) As soon as the trickery and manipulations start, so you get theupper hand on inmates right from the start of the process?

e) All of the above?

Question #5

what time of the set up is the easiest and best time to establish your safety from the process of set ups?

a) Observation stage, when inmates are seen listening and watching your every move out of the side of there eye.

b) During their testin of your limits, to see if they can get you to trip up and break the rules, even by accident/

c) During the inmates attempts to split staff up and pit then against each other, like

d) During the time the inmates are taling about staff outloud.

e) All of the above?

Question #6

What other ways are best to help side track inmate set up efforts or rule breaking?

a) Start talking about something else to a favorite inmate.

b) Get up from your seat after telling the inmate no.

c) Pretend to have a call and need to leave the area.

d) A & B?

e) All of the above?

Question #7

what is the most important way for you to cover yourself once you discovered a breaking of the rules caused by inmate manipulation?

a) Call your immediate supervisor and tell them it was an accident.

b) Document what happened and how the inmate caused it to happen.

c) Talk with the inmate and find out if they really did manipulate thigs, and try to make sure they are still your buddy,then turn them in to your superviosr, and document what happened..

d) Document first, and then call your supervisor asap about the situation.

e) All of the above?

Question #8

What is one of the best ways to stay safe in a secure environment?

a) Look fiercely aggressive andnot take anything off anyone, including your associates infromt of the inmates.

b) Be cool and calm, all they time.

c) Vacillate from hostility to happiness, being unpredicatable at all times and not be able to be pinned down to one type of behavior.

d) Stay at arm's reach and out of and away from areas where inmates can trapyou

e) All of the above?

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