Undesirable Correctional Officer Duties

Once a person become a Correctional Officer, it is very important that they continue training. In the past many prisons facilities are being accuse of cutting back on training or diverting training funds for other purpose. Stojkovic and Kalinich thinks it is good for correctional officers attend a CDC program because it empower potential leaders for proactive and visionary work. In training Correctional Officer will learn institutional policies, regulations, operations, and custody and security procedures. Some job mandate Correctional Office keep up the credentials will serve the Correctional Office position. All new Correctional officers must undergo 200 hours of training before their one probation is up. In addition, they must complete

My experience working in a prison as a Correctional Officer is one that I will never forget and that I kind of miss. When I started out on my own in my own pod I would size the inmates up, and they would size me up. I would quickly learn that prison was operated like a street gang. When the gang bosses, also known as OG’s (original gangsters) would take a shower, they had bodyguards from their gang or a sister gang guard the shower door for them while they shower. They were treated like VIP’s. As officers, we did not allow this to happen, so therefore we had to stop them from doing this. One method we used was pod lockdown. If they were scared to shower without a bodyguard, then we locked down the entire pod and told them they all will be escorted to the showers. Since they paid their bodyguards in soups, we would tell them that it would cost them their chow. Now we didn’t take their chow away, we just delayed their chow time some. We also found that

The problems that correctional officers deal with are low paid, and not enough people to do the job. They also have to deal with prisoner who have mental health problems and are not in their right mind. They also have to be on the lookout for ones who want to cause harm to others or the guards. They make shank and blowdarts that they can kill or harm another with. The inmates get new law that is in their favor every day while we lose more and more of our right so we are at a disadvantage. The guards need a way to be trained about the new laws. The guards are at a disadvantage and need help to be able to try to stay up with the inmates Correction’s officers {According to Peter Finn from Abt Associates, Inc. show that studies and anecdotal evidence indicate correctional officer stress is widespread due to the threat of inmate violence against correctional officers, actual violence committed by inmates, inmate demands and manipulation, and problems with co-workers.} He said that some of the factors are understaffing, overtime, shift work, low pay and the poor public image that officer have. I found an article by {Cece Hill} {where they did a survey of 44 U.S. correction systems. 44 percent of which reported problems with officer recruitment and some of the obstacles were rural locations and lack of resources for competitive wages. Despite efforts at retention the turnover rates for the first year correctional officers stood at a

The first thing that I found was intriguing was the importance of the on- the-job training officers which qualifies recruits to become regular officers. “A training officer named Hill, told us that our job would be usually difficult, because OJT’s irritate inmates. Inmates appreciate a consistent set of keepers, he explained; they don’t like having the rules enforced differently everyday. This comes to show that it will either make or break a correctional officer, given that they will have a difficult time dealing with inmates or they will have to work extra hard to keep the inmates in line. An interesting fact that Conover points out is that, “you’re going to learn, correctional officers that some things they taught you in the academy can get you killed” (Pg 99). While he spent time on the work force at Sing Sing, Conover came to realize that many other officers don’t follow the rules instructed at the academy. The academy is successful in teaching the future officers how the field of law works. However, the correctional officers in the facilities have to change the rules quite a bit, so that the inmates follow the instructions. An example of a negative aspect of the academy is that it teaches CO’s to not communicate with the inmates. But, sometimes that isn’t practical and instead, CO’s should create a relationship with the inmate so that they have a strong bond. Lastly, I

This can connect to problem-solving, they need to find what’s wrong, how to fix the problem, and how much it will cost. They also have to know how to working with people so you know how to approach people and watch how the people react. Last, they need to managing their time/information so they can work on two or more thing at once and keep the information in the right

Although the questionnaire and interview processes are useful in gaining a better understanding of the cultural competence of law enforcement agencies, they are not helpful in improving the cultural competency of those agencies. This is where instituting mandatory cultural competency training comes into play. For example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission proposed steps and recommendations to increase cultural competency and one of those steps was to “develop and deploy effective EEO and diversity/inclusion training for different state and local law enforcement audiences, including department leadership, human resources, and hiring officials, union leadership, and individual officers.” (Yang, 2015). While this recommendation pertains to hiring practices, it would also be very beneficial for law enforcement agencies to have trainings. Cultural competency training is important and would greatly improve relations between law enforcement and the community.

As if situations were not bad enough, most law enforcement agencies place additional pressures on female who want to become police officers. Some of the pressures are: physical criteria that are based on masculine ability (this practice has seen some small changes); Job Bias (e.g., facing extra challenges that male officers do not have to deal with); “learn "the tough way" not to take biased and off-color comments personally” (“Women in Law”, 2008, para. 8); do not allow male officers to make patronizing remarks and not reporting it for fear of retaliation from male counterparts. Recruiting & Retaining Women: A Self-Assessment Guide for Law Enforcement (n.d., p. 45) thinks that along with everything else recruiting women can be just as hard, because women tend to be very unwilling to apply for jobs as officers with

Student studying criminal justice and those employed in the field of criminal justice need to be aware of differences between those from different cultures. By studying multiculturalism one learns that different cultures can have values, beliefs, customs, and norms that are different from one’s own which leads to acceptance and understanding (McNamara & Burns, 2009). For those employed in the criminal justice field, with the changing face America, it is necessary to understand the background of others in order to do their job. Immigrant populations are part of every major city today and even most small towns have at least a small population of immigrants. Officers have to understand that their culture is different and that they have to

need to familiarize themselves with enforcement data to identify potential problem officers and organizational practices. By doing so, police

What would prisons be like without correctional officers? Imagine what life would be in prisons around a bunch of inmates, not having any protection from anyone, being around people who you know have killed, or have done other crimes. Correctional officers are not just helpful in prisons but also when transporting inmates from one place to another. With Correctional officers now in days they are a big help for our society. Without them we would not have any security when being in prison. Correctional officers are people just like us, they have families and other things just like anyone else would. It is a very risky job that many would never think of becoming an officers. Correctional officers are responsible for enforcing the law and

Studies in the 80’s have shown that a greater percentage of blacks and females could not successfully complete the FTO program compared to white male officers (Doerner, 2012). If this was based on unfairly treating blacks and females during the training, then the concern is that racism exists and much time and money has been wasted getting the rookie officers to this point (Doerner, 2012). This would also have a negative impact on any affirmative action efforts. However, Doerner conducted an extensive study in 1989 of over 300,000 ratings and concluded that white FTO’s did not unfairly treat black rookies and male FTO’s did not unfairly use different standards for female rookie officers (Doerner, 2012). Further investigation discovered that blacks struggled in passing radio use, legal knowledge, and report writing, which was surprising as they were required to have a 2-year college degree (Doerner, 2012). Changes to the demographic unbalancing of FTO instructors, lengths of phases being increased, and lessening the expectations of the program all were implemented to overcome the concerns of affirmative actions and barriers (Doerner,

In the criminal justice system cultural concerns and influences in today’s societies have its positive and negative aspects. Cultural concerns and influences raises a lot of attention of the affect it has on justice and the security administration. In this paper it will first discuss how cultural concerns and influence affect the justice and security administration and its practices. Second, what contemporary methods are used in the societies of mixed cultures? Third, what influences and considerations that relates to and affect nondiscrimination practices within the criminal justice system. Finally, in this paper it will discuss Sir

Additionally, learning to balance a workload of complex cases that all demand a high quality of service and an immediate response to their individual level of risk or need. I feel these skills will add significance to any student embarking on course within these

As a law enforcement officer, their standards should be higher. They should be constant checking a validation of all actions right or wrong. As much as I hate to say this, unless the current law enforcement system is removed completely and made from scratch their will never be the change required.

The concept of them being correctional workers first is they are responsible for the care and wellbeing of the institution. All staff are expected to be vigilant and attentive to inmate accountability