PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Hours
- Tend to work eight hour shifts
- Works Monday - Friday
- May be expected to work longer for prison security
Correctional Officers are responsible for overseeing individuals who have been arrested and are awaiting trial or who have been sentenced to serve time in a jail or prison.
The required education is a high school diploma.
Working in a correctional institute can be stressful and dangerous
Correctional Officers have a higher divorce rate and substance abuse rate than the general population
A correctional officer will be seriously assaulted twice in a 20 year career
On average, an officer's 58th birthday is their last
An average correctional officer will live only 18 months after retirement
Correctional officers have the second highest mortality rate of any occupation
