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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
• Guard
• Gate Watchman
• Gate Watch
• Gate Guard
• Gang Pusher
• 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 “Immigration Guard”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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