A prison guard on lookout in the watchtower at Parramatta Gaol
Occupation
Names
Correctional officer
Correctional Law Enforcement Officer
corrections officer
Correctional Police Officer
detention officer
detention deputy
Occupation type
Employment
Activity sectors
Law enforcement
Description
Competencies
See Working environment
Education required
See Training
Fields of employment
Prisons, jails
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A prison officer (PO) or corrections officer (CO), also known as a correctional law enforcement officer or less formally as a prison guard, is a uniformed law enforcement official responsible for the custody, supervision, safety, and regulation of prisoners. They are responsible for the security of the facility and its property as well as other law enforcement functions. Most prison officers or corrections officers are employed by the government of the jurisdiction in which they operate, although some are employed by private companies that provide prison services to the government.
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the control of corrections officers. Open prisons only lock inmates in their cells, houses, or rooms at night; the prison campus is open, but inmates...
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have served as prison and correctional officers since the early 19th century in London. The focus of research on female correctional officers has mostly been...
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played 4 roles in total in the series Phelan previously appeared as prisonofficer Manson in episode 17, and as dimwitted prisoner Bernadette in episodes...
Traviss directed Screwed, a prison drama based on the 2008 book Screwed: The Truth About Life as a PrisonOfficer, by a former prison guard writing under the...
They are responsible for the prison's security, the performance of staff of the prison (including prisonofficers, prison doctors, janitors, cooks and...
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female immigration detainees). The service's primary PrisonOfficer training facility, the Prison Service College, is based at Hydebank Wood. Also known...
disappearance case involved the faked death of the British former teacher and prisonofficer John Darwin. Darwin turned up alive in December 2007, five and a half...
on its hands". On 10 August 2017 Bieber attacked prisonofficer Alison Smith at HMP Long Lartin prison with a homemade weapon fashioned from an iron bar...
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2012 the group claimed responsibility for killing a prisonofficer near Lurgan, the first prisonofficer to be killed since 1993. On 3 September 2012 prominent...
At the end of April 1978, a fight occurred between a prisoner and a prisonofficer in H-Block 6. The prisoner was taken away to solitary confinement, and...
among prisonofficers at the jail. The evidence centred on a log of an Asian inmate's phone conversations kept by two prisonofficers. The prison was criticised...
biggest prison escape in UK history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners escaped from H-Block 7 (H7) of the prison. One prisonofficer died...
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fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings. Of the 43 men who died (33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees), all but one guard...
first 'Male, basic grade' PrisonOfficer to be posted to HMP Holloway in its (Female inmates only) history, was PrisonOfficer (Trg) Thomas Ainsworth, who...
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to operate as a dispersal prison. In April 1990, inmates at Long Lartin Prison attempted a mass breakout and, after officers foiled their escape bid, about...
prisonofficer from Swaleside was jailed for two years, after he tried to smuggle cannabis into the prison. The officer (who is the son of a prison governor)...
Sixty inmates and several prisonofficers were injured. In 1982, an inquiry blamed much of the difficulties on failings in prison management. The governor...