How do they match: Correctional Officers and Jailers

  • Correctional Officers and Jailers

  • Arrange daily schedules for prisoners, including library visits, work assignments, family visits, and counseling appointments.
  • Drive passenger vehicles and trucks used to transport inmates to other institutions, courtrooms, hospitals, and work sites.
  • Inspect conditions of locks, window bars, grills, doors, and gates at correctional facilities to ensure security and help prevent escapes.
  • 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.
  • Supervise and coordinate work of other correctional service officers.

  • Prepare activity or work schedules.