Therefore, because the inmate was involved …show more content…
Therefore, the question that can only be asked is whether this violated the professional code of ethics for correctional officers and as I stated in the previous paragraph if security functions are compromised, the correctional officer's primary objective is to protect the facility. Therefore, lying could be justified as the correctional officer may have been unable to coerce the inmate to reveal where the contraband was located without lying to him. So the bottom line here is that in the scenario it does not state what type of contraband that was being confined but in the prison system, all contraband is considered illegal and is considered to be a danger to all …show more content…
In this scenario, the correctional officer lied to obtain the information he wanted, and if this was universally acceptable behavior, there would never be an ability to discern between who was telling the truth or lying as people would lie for personal gain while engaging in contradictions on their statements that were made to obtain what they wanted. The person lied to would suffer the consequences of any lie, and this was the case in this scenario. (Daniel,