Correctional Officer Negatives
Being a Correctional Officer isn’t an easy task. Correctional officers risk their lives as soon as they get to their job, until they’re out. There’s a lot of negatives and positives to become a correctional officer and also not to.
These are the steps to become one, you first need a high school diploma, go to college for another 5-10 years, and you also need a college degree. You have to be sure you want to be that because being and becoming one isn’t easy at all.
Correctional officers keep order between prisons/jails, supervise inmates activities, report an inmate conduct also become an aid whom the inmates can talk to. Correctional officers are responsible for the inmate's safety, securities, and the supervision. Correctional …show more content…
They don’t know what might happen at any time. C.O’s have to be very smart and always be alert, they must keep themselves safe and also the inmates. They may have some type of weapon because inmates will attack. Inmates are angry and all they want is to attack. Correctional officers that already worked as one say that in order to become one you have to have a lot of courage and also have critical skills, it's not only about the education you also have to be physically and mentally ready and dedicated. The benefits of being a correctional officer is that you are well paid, you get paid $19.89 in an hour and $41,370 a year. You have to work all the time there are inmates in prison. What that means is that you have to work 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. You regularly switch shifts with other colleague’s. The negatives of becoming one is that many people have been killed others have committed suicide because of the inmates in whatever prison they’re in. Many “correctional officers” don’t last because they’re not mentally or physically ready for their job, some don’t know what it takes to be one or become one. Some C.O’s have trauma because there’s a lot of things that go on in
These are the steps to become one, you first need a high school diploma, go to college for another 5-10 years, and you also need a college degree. You have to be sure you want to be that because being and becoming one isn’t easy at all.
Correctional officers keep order between prisons/jails, supervise inmates activities, report an inmate conduct also become an aid whom the inmates can talk to. Correctional officers are responsible for the inmate's safety, securities, and the supervision. Correctional …show more content…
They don’t know what might happen at any time. C.O’s have to be very smart and always be alert, they must keep themselves safe and also the inmates. They may have some type of weapon because inmates will attack. Inmates are angry and all they want is to attack. Correctional officers that already worked as one say that in order to become one you have to have a lot of courage and also have critical skills, it's not only about the education you also have to be physically and mentally ready and dedicated. The benefits of being a correctional officer is that you are well paid, you get paid $19.89 in an hour and $41,370 a year. You have to work all the time there are inmates in prison. What that means is that you have to work 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. You regularly switch shifts with other colleague’s. The negatives of becoming one is that many people have been killed others have committed suicide because of the inmates in whatever prison they’re in. Many “correctional officers” don’t last because they’re not mentally or physically ready for their job, some don’t know what it takes to be one or become one. Some C.O’s have trauma because there’s a lot of things that go on in