do yall know the job duties of a correction officer what is a correction officer?

Answer 1

The duties can vary depending on which state you are in.

In CA it can range from boring to fighting for your or somebody elses life. Most often maintaining good rapport will keep things running smoothly; but if you're smart you don't get lackadaisical because situations change rapidly.

Answer 2

A Corrections Officer is a prison guard. A very high risk job with little pay and none of the "glamour" of being a real Police Officer. They usually only get about 4 weeks training, and then get thrown into a maximum security prison, with no weapons, not even mace. They put their lives on the line everyday, since many of the inmates they deal with have long sentences, who have nothing to lose by assaulting/killing a CO. Nonetheless, I think it would be a rather boring job, because when your not looking over your shoulder constantly, your doing something mundane like bringing inmates food, or mopping up water from a toilet that an inmate purposely flooded.

Answer 3

Correctional officers are responsible for overseeing individuals who have been arrested and are awaiting trial or who have been convicted of a crime and sentenced to serve time in a jail, reformatory, or penitentiary. Correctional officers maintain security and inmate accountability to prevent disturbances, assaults, and escapes. Officers have no law enforcement responsibilities outside the institution where they work.

Answer 4

Correction Officers are not the same as prison guards or prison officers. Some of the answers are way off here. Their normal parameters, regarding law enforcement usually convey within a 1 mile radius of thier facilty.

Thier parameter of law enforcement changes if they have an inmate(s) in custody and are off the facility; thew have full arrest powers in most states and jurisdictions.

Many are used to supplement local police departments and sheriff's offices in thier times of needs, such as special events, crowd control, special operations, etc.

My Jail Officers have a ERT (Emergency Reposnse Team) that works in unison with our local juridictions and their ERT/SWAT. As a matter-of-fact they've brought home national titles on more than one ocassion competing against some of the nation's finests.

Inside the facilty, in addiion to keeping order and control w/in housing units, they provide information to investigative staff regarding gang activity, folwing in and out of the jail onto the streets. They respond to numerous inmate on inmate and inmate on staff assaults. When witnessed, they draw up charges against inmates for breaking institutional infractions or criminal activity, both punishible through the institution thourgh a "hearing" or the local courts-both, if found guilty, can bring more jail time, loss of good time, time spent in islolation and loss of privledges.

They are also, social workers; they have to arrange assisitanc to them when the system fails their families, or problems w/the courts, or when they're coping with personal issues. The point here, is an inmate under less stress, is easier to manage. And multiply that one inmate by about thousand. Fact is you don't want a thousand angry inmates, so when feasable, and within guidlelines offering some asistance is helping everbody-jail wide.

Some are completely unmanagable and are in isolation for their duration.

But the bottom line is (and I've been in this work for 20 years), it isn't whose butt you can kick, or how much of a badass you are, it's how well you communicate with people. I've had petite female officers able to handles out of control inmates better than some of the more "muscular-bound, tough guys" that worked for me.

In my 20 years, we suffered 5 inmate on staff assualts. But reponded to thousands of inmate on inmate.

I was a cop for 5 years, in Detroit before doing this, that job was a cakewalk compared to what a corrections officer has to put up on a daily basis. You see, a cop has the opportunity to 'escape" his work, even for the smallest amount of time. Being in an environment where there's a thousand people that have medical, mental defects, social problems, and are usually just pissed off, well you just can't just walk away from it-you're there until relieved.

Answer 5

also, from my own experience (maximum security) i'd have to say that the hardest part for me was the strip searches.YUK!

Answer 6

a prison guard is a CO

Answer 7

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