...I am the Lead Supervisor of Correctional Officers I and II by making general inspections to see that rules and regulations are being served, and that institutional programs are being carried out in a satisfactory manner. I was selected through my ability to research and interpret policies, procedures and regulatory guidance for the application of the "Big Picture". This coupled with my knowledge of management programs, training, and ability to identify and resolve problems I accomplish the following: Oversee sub-units in the facility performing work in specific areas, such as: compliance monitoring, security, commissary, living units, etc. I am the responsible Officer for the operation of the institution on a particular shift when administrative...
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...The life of a Correctional Officer and the challenges they face in order to uphold justice. The department of corrections is designed to help secure, protect, and confine offenders from the public. They are responsible for overseeing those whom have been arrested and are awaiting trial as well as those whom have already been convicted of a crime and sentenced to serve time in a jail, detention center, or prison. They goal is to maintain security in order to prevent disturbances, assaults, or escapes. Correctional Officers have no law enforcement responsibilities outside of where they work. Their work is hard and has little public gratification, just because a criminal is locked away in a facility does not mean he or she is gone, it’s simply it means there is someone else dealing with them. As far as a profession, corrections work is one of the most stressful in law enforcement. Officers must remain alert at all times in order to avoid being attacked or killed by the inmates that they supervise. The intensity of the environments often prompts officers to shut down emotionally, reducing their ability to perform their duties at work and home. One of the major safety concerns is the use of unusual weapons by inmates. Although the officers regularly perform conduct cell and inmate checks, inmates find a way to make them; they also face the use of physical force, the work duties of corrections officer’s poses a threat to their own safety and sometimes their...
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...Sexual assault within a correctional institution is something that most citizens who live freely outside of such facilities may think is merely a small inconvenience that few criminals may possibly experience while incarcerated within the prison system. However, this is an issue that has gained a great deal of attention from those within the facilities, and those who study the facilities as well. In the article “Responding to Incidents of Sexual Victimization in Correctional Institutions: Correctional Officer Perspectives”, written by Carrie L. Cook and Jodi Lane, sexual assault in correctional institutions and how it is responded to is studied from the perspective of the correctional officer. According to Cook & Lane (2017), “This study examines...
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...There are several different roles or assignments that correctional officers perform. One type can be a block officer, although there is some advanced technology in the facilities officers still run safety risks in the facility. If an officer is exhausted they can run a risk in the cell block. Three possible safety issues an officer can face are: inmates hiding contraband ad weapons, missing inmates, and problems arising in the living area. One safety issue a correctional officer could face, if left alone in a cell block, while the officer is exhausted is having the possibility of inmates hiding contraband and weapons. When an officer is in charge of a cell block, there are many duties officers perform including the inspection of personal property...
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...Correctional Officers Experience The control exercised over offenders in a correctional environment is called custody. The custody levels are maximum, medium, to minimum they refer to the way prisons or units within prisons are classified. The three C’s of corrections are care, custody, and control that correctional officers learn in training. The correctional officers will present themselves as professional at all times. The officers will let the prisoners know we are here to keep safety and security within the prison walls. The prison having well-trained officers and well-orchestrated schedule for the officers to follow will help to better security within the prison. The officers will communicate with each other at all time they are in the prison own stress as it is. Inmates can pick up on the officer’s inability to focus on their job and use that. Correctional officers will have to keep work life and home life separated. How do you ensure professionalism among the corrections staff? Communities rely on federal and state prisons, county jails, and other correctional facilities to help ensure public safety by operating secure facilities. Correctional officials recognize that their work is a public service and that unethical behavior and /or misconduct erodes public confidence in these officials. It is for this reason that corrections departments across the country adopt and enforce codes of ethics and conduct for correctional officers and other employees whose job...
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...When I first started my career at The Department of Corrections (CDCR), in Chino, California. I had no idea that deciding to become a Correctional Officer would be one of the worst career choices of my life. One day, in particular, made this abundantly clear. One single day would change my perspective on my life, confirming my ethical beliefs, affirm that no career was worth my soul and that making the correct decision can be traumatic and an isolating experience. Arriving to work that summer night, being assigned to a sick relief position could place me anywhere in the prison for my shift. My position for the night would be the Reception Center (RC). The RC is known not only for the smell that seeps from underneath the door as you approach....
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...OF A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER CRJ: 303 Corrections 17 March 2013 Abstract The life of a correctional officer is something that is easily over looked. Not understanding or knowing the intricate details that go into what it actually takes to coexist with incarcerated inmates is one of the reasons that the general public is able to go about their daily lives, not thinking or wondering how those inmates are controlled. Correctional officers have one of the hardest jobs on the planet, having to work with prison inmates on a daily basis and not knowing when something may happen that could endanger themselves or their fellow correctional officers. Keywords: daily, corrections, life, officers, policies, The life of a correctional officer is a multi-prong one. A correctional officer is a staff person in a prison or jail who accomplishes the institution’s mission by maintaining control and order within the prison (Seiter, 2011). While the job of a correctional officer is very critical within a prison and may vary vastly depending on the role unique to a certain prison or jail, it is very important that we all understand that these quiet guardians are the tip of the spear in the correctional facilities. The differences between jails and prisons have been clearly defined and the missions between the two are considerately different, there is relatively little difference in the actual roles that correctional officers play in the two types of facilities. Correctional officers are solely...
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...years old and I have another 17 years of working time before I can retire with social security. In two years, I will have a retirement from my current employer. Nevertheless, I work in the Correctional field and enjoy my job. I graduate in 2017 and I am going to continue working because it accomplishes many things for me. First of all, it keeps my procedural expertise active and up to date. Second, it permits me to train new officers and appreciate the companionship of my coworkers. Finally, I get paid as well, very well. Therefore, in five years, I see myself still working at the prison and still loving. I will make more money, almost double than what I am making now. I also see myself and my wife taking plenty of vacations in and out of the country. I positively see myself employed with the Department of Corrections for the next five years and beyond as an Assistant Warden. This is the reason why I have chosen to finish school....
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...Death Row Correctional Officers : Experiences, Perspectives, and Attitudes Kelly L. Brown and Melissa Benningfield Criminal Justice Review 2008 33: 524 originally published online 3 September 2008 DOI: 10.1177/0734016808322323 The Problem: “Living death” as death row is called by some is a horrific experience for not only the inmates, but also the correctional officers who work in the death row unit. The feeling of hopelessness and powerlessness is sometimes transferred to the correctional officers. This study will look at how death row affects the correctional officers that work in the unit. According to Brown and Benningfield (2008) “Correctional officers who are assigned to death row must interact with offenders who experience this “living death” and who have been convicted of such heinous crimes that society pronounces them undeserving of life (525).” Research Design: A total of 40 correctional officers who had worked on death row and 9 who were still working on death row were part of the study. Data collection for this study was done by survey. There were open-ended questions like, “Would you say that working on death row is different from working in other units at the institution? If so, how?” For the closed-ended questions the researchers used a 6-point Likert scale (strongly agree, agree, slightly agree, slightly disagree, disagree, and strongly disagree). Findings: There were more male officers (67.5%) than were female officers. Of these officers, 56% were...
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...Correctional officers must have critical-thinking skills because they must be able to rapidly and proficiently solve problems at hand. Correctional officers must also have self-discipline in order to control their emotions when dealing with uncertain circumstances that could possibly include boisterous prisoners or nerve-wracking situations. Negotiation skills are another requirement that correctional officers must possess due to they must be able use negotiation in order to avoid conflict. Interpersonal skills would be another requirement for correctional officers because they must be able to successfully converse with corrections staff and inmates. Another requirement would be good judgement for the reason that correctional personnel’s must...
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...RECIPE: Braised Meatballs The key to making these meatballs is to brown them first in a skillet and then braise them in a sauce of red wine and tomatoes. Serve them with crusty bread or spaghetti to sop up the sauce. SERVES 4 to 6 INGREDIENTS 10 oz. ground beef chuck or veal 10 oz. ground pork shoulder 2 oz. minced pork fat or unsmoked bacon 2 oz. prosciutto, minced 1 ¼ cups loosely packed flat-leaf parsley leaves, minced, plus more for garnish 2 tsp. dried oregano 1 ½ tsp. fennel seeds 1 tsp. crushed red chile flakes ½ tsp. ground cumin ¼ tsp. ground allspice 7 slices white bread, finely ground in a food processor Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste ⅔ cup ricotta, drained in a strainer for 2 hours 2 tbsp. milk 3 eggs, lightly beaten 6 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for greasing ¼ cup dry red wine 4 cups canned tomato purée 1 cup beef or veal stock or water Grated parmesan, for garnish RELATED: See A Dozen Classic Cookie Recipes » INSTRUCTIONS 1. In a large bowl, combine beef, pork, pork fat, prosciutto, parsley, oregano, fennel seeds, chile flakes, cumin, allspice, and bread crumbs and season generously with salt and pepper. Using your fingers, mix ingredients until combined; set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together ricotta, milk, and eggs; add to meat mixture and gently mix until incorporated. Chill for 1 hour. 2. Heat oven to 300°. Grease 2 rimmed baking sheets with oil and set aside...
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...Ronald Nussle, an inmate at the Cheshire Correctional Institution in Connecticut, asserted that, on or about June 15, 1996, several correctional officers asked him to leave his cell in an ominous manner (Dannenberg, 2002). According to Nussle these officers, "placed him against a wall and struck him with their hands, kneed him in the back, [and] pulled his hair"(Dannenberg, 2002). Nussle alleged that the attack was unprovoked and unjustified, and that the officers told him they would kill him if he reported the beating (Dannenberg, 2002). Nussle did not file a formal complaint with prison administration that was due within 30 days according to prison rules. Instead, a scant three days before Connecticut's three year statute of limitations expired in June 1999, Ronald Nussle filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit alleging cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment (Dannenberg, 2002). The Federal District Court dismissed Nussle's complaint for failure to exhaust administrative remedies, per the PLRA's 42 U.S.C. §1997e (a) provision (Dannenberg, 2002)....
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...Crime Causation Sharon Semien BUS303 August 9, 2011 Katina Douglas Crime Causation In 1980, an Illinois jury convicted John Wayne Gacy for killing 33 young boys and men. Sarcastically, after his conviction, the infamous killer (also known as “The Killer Clown”) said “I should have never been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license” (Star Quotes, 2009, p. 1). Obviously, something intrusively wrong resonated in Gacy for him to make such a statement that negated the intensity of his actions. Gacy buried majority of his victims under the crawl space of his home and discarded other victims in the Des Plaines River (Bell & Bardsley, 2011). People often question what would make someone do such vicious and torturous acts on another person. Criminologists developed theories explaining the reasons people deviate from societal norms and commit immoral acts laws prohibit (Schmallenger, 2003). Particularly, in this case, John Wayne Gacy is a person suitable to study. Certainly, a few crime causation theories explain how his upbringing, life experiences, and other deep, underlying issues led him to committing crimes to the extent he did. Gacy’s Background Information Gacy was the only son of three children born to Marion and John Gacy. He had an older sister (Joanne) and younger sister (Karen). The Gacy’s were a middle-classed, Catholic family who lived on the north side of Chicago. As a young boy in middle school, Gacy kept...
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...It happened at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois. Other people and the people in his state were saying that he deserves more than just a death punishment right away, they want him to suffer more because of all the bodies he killed. After Gacy’s trial and execution, his brain was removed and it was examined by Dr. Helen Morrison. She was the doctor that interviewed Gacy and she also interviewed some other serial killers to try and find the common personality traits of all these violent killers. After all the examination that Dr. Morrison did of Gacy’s brain, they were surprised that it showed no...
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...Rehabilitation Nicole Grant CCJS/230 – Introduction to Corrections Instructor – David Foltzer August 25, 2013 The definition of rehabilitation as it would apply to a prisoner is “the process of restoring an individual to a useful and constructive place in society especially through some form of vocational, correctional, or therapeutic retraining”. When we speak of prisoner rehabilitation we are seeking to teach prisoners how to function as productive, law abiding citizen within society. The purpose is to provide them with educational, vocational and therapeutic services that will give them an alternative way to live that will hopefully deter them from the criminal lifestyle in the future. The origins of prisoner rehabilitation can be found at Zebulon Brockway’s Elmira Reformatory in Elmira, NY which opened in 1876. It is there that classification of inmates, industrial training, individualized treatment, parole, indeterminate sentencing and other proposed reforms where packaged into a new approach to address criminal behavior. Although the rehabilitation era didn’t happen until the mid 1950’s – mid 1970’s there was no clear cut mission as to what rehabilitation was supposed to be and what was supposed to be gained from it. Rehabilitation makes prisons a more humane and productive environment. Inmates are occupied with bettering themselves educationally, vocationally and therapeutically. There is not as much violence or criminal behavior in prison because it is cause...
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