A day in the life of a Correctional Officer

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Studying in Youth and Adult Services opens a lot of work opportunities. With this diploma, you can work as a correctional officer, in youth centers, as an probation agent and much more. But today, I will describe a day in correctional officers' lives. As a correctional officer, there are no days like the others. They often put their lives in danger for the offenders. They are multitasking people. They have the authority on bad people, but also get to help them get out of where they are. Officers get to keep an eye on different lawbreakers. For example, those who are in jail and those who have pending preliminaries. A correctional officer’s job not only consists of protecting society, it also contributes to changing the lives of convicts. Correctional officers in a penitentiary have a lot of obligations compared to the ones who work in a smaller prison who has less responsibility, since it has minor rules. A correctional agent can work in different circumstances. Those who works between the walls faces difficult cases. Depending on their tasks, they can be at a place where there will be a lot if inmates or a turbulence area. Prison guards often works on rotation. The personal who works Monday to Friday is very limited. Usually, guards work in the morning, the evening, and the night, on weekdays, on week-ends and on festivities. They also often do supplementary times. As I said before, it's not an easy job. They manage through advice accomplishments and sense of responsibility to make sure jailbirds applies the rules. A majority of correctional officers works all day weapon less. Some of them who are affected outside can be equipped. A traditional day as a correctional office is that they have the charge to apply the laws either on the prison on in the penitentiary. For example, inmates are not allowed to have wireless telephone, their room always has to be clean, they are not allowed to do traffic of stimulants or depressants and make alcohol. As an agent, you have to pay attention to all this, daily. Officers don't only have inmates to check after. They have to review all the armament protocols, to make sure they are safe so that inmates feels secure, but at the same time can't escape from where they are. One of their tasks consists on making sure that everything that passes the walls are secure. For that, they have the right to read and look over the packages and guess who wishes to visit prisoners have to be check. All staffs have the right and obligation, whether they just started working or that they are there for a long time, to assure a full security to the place where they are working. The internal displacements and external displacements like bringing an offender at the palace of justice, are part of an agent duties. Correctional agents have a big responsibility. They have to make sure that at the end of their judgement, the inmate is able to live in society. To do that, inmates have meeting with their agents, they are at a certain point allowed to go outsides to reinforce family ties, and to start working. Depending on the different establishments, in some prisons, agents can have a specific coaching, so they can work more as a trainer then an officer.