Working Conditions

Begin a correctional officer can be scary at time's when you are new at the job and a fight breaks out between the inmates. Officers have to take charge for the inmates and break up the fight. Officer's can be working outside or inside, depending in their specific duties. Indoor areas are well-lit, heated and ventilated, but others are crowded, hot and often noisy. Outdoor working can be miserable depending on the weather. if you are standing out on the guard tower it can be cold, wet weather. Standing out on the tower for several hours can get tiring. Officers work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week with rotating shifts. You can work different shifts from early morning, night, weekends sometime even holidays. Officers may be required to work overtime. Officers can often feel a great deal of stress while working in the jails. Beign in charge with dangerous men and women that have committed unbelieveable crimes. Officers have been injured an a few have been killed from the job. If you like working with people, but the people are on the other side of the bars, this is a job for you. It care be dangerous sometime, you can get a good experience for working as a correctional officer.