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Job Description

Guard inmates in penal or rehabilitative institutions in accordance with established regulations and procedures. May guard prisoners in transit between jail, courtroom, prison, or other point. Includes deputy sheriffs and police who spend the majority of their time guarding prisoners in correctional institutions.

Job Details

• The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 33-3012.00
• The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 46,750.00
• The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 22.00
• Currently, there are 431,600 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Correctional Officers and Jailers”.

Also Known As…

• Correctional Officers and Jailers
• Jailor
• Jailer
• Jail Officer
• Detention Officer
• Detention Deputy
• Deputy Jailer
• Custody Assistant
• Corrections Officer (CO)
• Correctional Sergeant
• Correctional Officer
• Youth Corrections Officer
• Turnkey
• Station Jailer
• Security Officer
• Reformatory Attendant
• Prison Officer
• Prison Guard
• Police Matron
• Police Detention Attendant
• Penal Officer
• Patrol Conductor
• Matron
• Juvenile Detention Officer
• Jailkeeper
• Jailer/Training Officer
• Jail Guard
• Immigration Services Officer
• Immigration Guard
• Guard
• Gate Watchman
• Gate Watch
• Gate Guard
• Gang Pusher
• Deputy
• Custodial Officer
• Cottage Supervisor
• Cottage Parent
• Cottage Master
• Corrections Sergeant
• Corrections Corporal
• Correctional Lieutenant
• Correctional Guard
• Correctional Captain
• Correction Officer
• Convict Guard
• Community Services Officer
• Civilian Jail Officer
• Certified Detention Deputy
• Booking Officer

Tasks for “Corrections Specialist”

• Use weapons, handcuffs, and physical force to maintain discipline and order among prisoners.
• Take prisoners into custody and escort to locations within and outside of facility, such as visiting room, courtroom, or airport.
• Use nondisciplinary tools and equipment such as a computer.
• Serve meals, distribute commissary items, and dispense prescribed medication to prisoners.
• Participate in required job training.
• Assign duties to inmates, providing instructions as needed.
• Settle disputes between inmates.
• Arrange daily schedules for prisoners including library visits, work assignments, family visits, and counseling appointments.
• Maintain records of prisoners' identification and charges.
• Inspect mail for the presence of contraband.
• Investigate crimes that have occurred within an institution, or assist police in their investigations of crimes and inmates.
• Guard facility entrances to screen visitors.
• Drive passenger vehicles and trucks used to transport inmates to other institutions, courtrooms, hospitals, and work sites.
• Supervise and coordinate work of other correctional service officers.
• Issue clothing, tools, and other authorized items to inmates.
• Record information, such as prisoner identification, charges, and incidences of inmate disturbance, and keep daily logs of prisoner activities.
• Search for and recapture escapees.
• Conduct fire, safety, and sanitation inspections.
• Conduct head counts to ensure that each prisoner is present.
• Inspect conditions of locks, window bars, grills, doors, and gates at correctional facilities to ensure security and help prevent escapes.
• Counsel inmates and respond to legitimate questions, concerns, and requests.
• Provide to supervisors oral and written reports of the quality and quantity of work performed by inmates, inmate disturbances and rule violations, and unusual occurrences.
• Monitor conduct of prisoners in housing unit, or during work or recreational activities, according to established policies, regulations, and procedures, to prevent escape or violence.
• Process or book convicted individuals into prison.
• Sponsor inmate recreational activities such as newspapers and self-help groups.
• Search prisoners and vehicles and conduct shakedowns of cells for valuables and contraband, such as weapons or drugs.

Related Technology & Tools

• Leg irons
• Prisoner transport belts
• Data collectors
• Upper body armor
• Desktop computers
• Radio frequency identification RFID devices
• Stab proof vests
• Emergency fire extinguishers
• Tablet computers
• Metal handcuffs
• Surveillance cameras
• Law enforcement rifles
• Law enforcement flashlights
• Hearing protection plugs
• Mobile radios
• Tactical riot shields
• Cut resistant gloves
• Laptop computers
• Protective gas masks
• Emergency fire hoses
• Lower body armor
• Law enforcement handguns
• Electroshock weapons
• Personal computers
• Law enforcement shotguns
• Riot protection helmets
• Expandable batons
• Protective safety glasses
• Firefighting respirators
• Air-supplying respirators

• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• 3M Electronic Monitoring
• Microsoft Access
• Jail management software
• Microsoft Excel
• Web browser software
• Corrections housing software
• Guardian RFID