Title: What is a Correctional Officer
Headings: What is a Correctional Officer?
What is a Correctional Officer?
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Correctional Officers as Safety Facilitators
Ensuring the Security of Detention Facilities
The Correctional Officer’s Role in Inmate Rehabilitation

Content: Efforts are also made to segregate inmate populations as needed to better ensure the protection of inmates that are at higher-risk of being assaulted, victimized or targeted for assassination. In some instances, this may mean keeping rival gang members from sharing communal areas at the same time. Ensuring the Security of Detention Facilities
Maintaining the jail or prison is of paramount importance. Any breach in prison security may allow contraband drugs, weapons or communication devices into the facility, which may contribute to more violence. Most importantly, any compromise of the prison’s borders may allow prisoners to escape and harm others in the community. All threats to the prison’s security are identified and immediately remedied. FIND SCHOOLS
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Most prisons utilize surveillance cameras to monitor the prison grounds and inmate activity that takes place in common areas. Searches and security checks are regularly scheduled to disrupt potential plans for escape or rioting. Correctional officers also carefully monitor the behavior of offenders to ensure that there are no disruptions in usual patterns of behavior that may indicate an inmate is making preparations for an escape. Many prisoners engage in paid employment during incarceration.