Life for a Corrections Officer Elizabeth Austin CRJ303: Corrections Instructor: Tracy Crump January 7‚ 2012 Being a correction officer is not an easy job. Each and every correction officer has a daily routine‚ stress‚ danger‚ and has to learn to gain compliance of every inmate. Every day in a prison working with inmates can be a challenge; some days may seem easier than other days. There is a daily routine and schedule that each correction officer has to come to terms with. The tasks could
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The Nation Wide Dilemma in Corrections CJ 2500: CORRECTIONS Professor November 04‚ 2012 Running Head: Turnover Rate in Corrections Abstract Throughout the years‚ there has been one major dilemma that continues to hassle the administration whose sole purpose is to provide institutional sanctions‚ treatment programs‚ and services for managing criminal offenders. This dilemma is the high turnover rate of the Corrections Officers‚ whom agencies nation wide are
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Market Research: Correctional Officers There has been an ongoing shortage of corrections officers around the nation. There are several factors that influence the supply and demand for correctional officers. The first factor for the shortage is recruitment‚ meaning that it is hard to find qualified personnel to fill vacant positions. Along with unqualified personnel‚ you have training issues‚ where there is not enough training facilities or funding to train new officers. Other factors deal with the
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Roles of Corrections Officers CRJ303: Corrections January 12‚ 2015 The role of a correctional officers‚ also known as detention officers play a very vital role when it comes to their duties inside the penitentiary or in a detention home. The Department of Corrections is an agency of the United State government that have been around for many of centuries. The correctional officers and the prison administration are an essential piece to our Justice System. The correctional officers has the
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Roles of Corrections Officers Keli Tomlinson Ashford University Corrections CRJ 303 Karyn Goldmeier September 19‚ 2014 Roles of Corrections Officers Many people view correctional officer‚ or COs‚ as the backbone to corrections. Besides managing inmates 24 hours a day‚ seven days a week‚ usually divided up working 12 hour shifts‚ their upmost important role is to maintain a safe and secure environment for both staff and inmates. Correctional officers have one of the hardest and most challenging jobs
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I will be writing about why I want to be a Corrections Officer‚ what it means to be a Correction Officer‚ and the skills you need to do the job. I have chosen this as my degree of study because I enjoy being around people and keeping things in order. Everyone deserves a chance to make changes in their own life. A Corrections Officer job is to oversee people who have been arrested; they are waiting trail or have been convicted and sentenced to jail or prison by the court. They are legally authorized
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My name is Steven Adams. I currently work for the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections as A Youth Corrections Officer. The work is very interesting because of the type of youth that you come in contact with and they are at a very challenging point in their lives. I spend most of my time supervising the kids but have also become certified as a group facilitator in the Seven Challenges Program which is the substance abuse program that we run on the facility. I have coached Youth in the Past as
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Criminal Justice Project Interview with Corrections Officer X On May 20‚ 2007‚ I met with X. Mr. X is a Corrections Officer 1 at the Camp Hill State Prison and has been working there for 7 years. He has a military background consisting of 3 years in the Marines and has been in the Air Force Reserve for the past 12 years. I asked Mr. X the following questions during our time together and his responses follow: What made you decide to get into the corrections field? I had friends who worked
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A violation of a correction officer’s code of ethics | Phase 1 Individual Project | | Tiakeya Leary | 11/26/2012 | Abstract: this paper will be discussing the code of ethics of a jail officer. I will talk about an incident that has taken place at a jail between a correction officer and a inmate. I will determine what code of ethics the correction officer has violated and what actions I chose to take due to the officers violations. In closing I will discuss whether or not the decisions
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context of a society founded and controlled by the prisoners. Conover spent a year working as a “newjack”—the inmate term for a new New York state correctional officer. Upon departure from the training academy he was assigned to work in Sing Sing‚ the state’s maximum security prison in Ossining‚ where most inexperienced officers spend their first months on the job. Newjack tells the story of Conover’s initiation into correctional work. After a short time at the academy and a brief period of
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