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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
- Matron
- Juvenile Detention Officer
- Jailkeeper
- Jailer/Training Officer
- Jail Guard
- Immigration Services Officer
- Immigration Guard
- 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 “Patrol Conductor”
- Inspect conditions of locks, window bars, grills, doors, and gates at correctional facilities to ensure security and help prevent escapes.
- Supervise and coordinate work of other correctional service officers.
- Investigate crimes that have occurred within an institution, or assist police in their investigations of crimes and inmates.
- Serve meals, distribute commissary items, and dispense prescribed medication to prisoners.
- Use weapons, handcuffs, and physical force to maintain discipline and order among prisoners.
- Settle disputes between inmates.
- Record information, such as prisoner identification, charges, and incidences of inmate disturbance, and keep daily logs of prisoner activities.
- Arrange daily schedules for prisoners including library visits, work assignments, family visits, and counseling appointments.
- Counsel inmates and respond to legitimate questions, concerns, and requests.
- Conduct fire, safety, and sanitation inspections.
- Participate in required job training.
- Conduct head counts to ensure that each prisoner is present.
- Sponsor inmate recreational activities such as newspapers and self-help groups.
- Take prisoners into custody and escort to locations within and outside of facility, such as visiting room, courtroom, or airport.
- Maintain records of prisoners' identification and charges.
- 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.
- 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.
- Use nondisciplinary tools and equipment such as a computer.
- Issue clothing, tools, and other authorized items to inmates.
- Search for and recapture escapees.
- Guard facility entrances to screen visitors.
- 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.
- Inspect mail for the presence of contraband.
- Drive passenger vehicles and trucks used to transport inmates to other institutions, courtrooms, hospitals, and work sites.
- Assign duties to inmates, providing instructions as needed.
Related Technology & Tools
- Data collectors
- Expandable batons
- Upper body armor
- Electroshock weapons
- Leg irons
- Lower body armor
- Emergency fire hoses
- Hearing protection plugs
- Tablet computers
- Prisoner transport belts
- Law enforcement rifles
- Tactical riot shields
- Protective gas masks
- Metal handcuffs
- Laptop computers
- Law enforcement flashlights
- Personal computers
- Protective safety glasses
- Surveillance cameras
- Emergency fire extinguishers
- Mobile radios
- Stab proof vests
- Riot protection helmets
- Law enforcement shotguns
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Air-supplying respirators
- Desktop computers
- Firefighting respirators
- Law enforcement handguns
- Cut resistant gloves
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- 3M Electronic Monitoring
- Microsoft Office
- Guardian RFID
- Corrections housing software
- Microsoft Access
- Jail management software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Web browser software