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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
• Deputy
• Custodial Officer
• Cottage Supervisor
• Cottage Parent
• Cottage Master
• Corrections Specialist
• 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 “Gang Pusher”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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