About This Role
Maintaining the safety and security of staff, prisoners, and visitors within a correctional facility is the core of this role. The Corrections Officer guards, processes, and supervises prisoners in an environment that is safe, fair, and secure.
Responsibilities
- Provide custody, care, security, control, and discipline of persons charged or convicted of offenses of State or local law
- Promote an environment of safety and well-being for the staff and prisoners
- Maintain correctional facility order and discipline at all times
- Direct and supervise prisoners
- Perform periodic prisoner counts
- Provide care for prisoners
- Dispense and oversee meals
- Administer medications and oversee prisoner hygiene and showers
- Schedule medical, counseling, personal, and other appointments
- Conduct visiting sessions
- Schedule transportation for appointments and visits outside of the facility
- Transport and arrange transport for prisoners
- Document all transports
- Deliver mail and allow prisoners to make personal and legal phone calls
- Patrol and inspect the correctional facility for contraband, sanitation, and orderliness
- Supervise and observe persons visiting prisoners
- Maintain records of institution's activities including log book and incident reports
- Transport and escort prisoner to court and other appointments
- Perform the booking and releasing processes
- Provide training and leadership to other Correctional Officers as required
- Report infractions of rules and regulations and suspicious actions
- Take or recommend appropriate response
- Recommend operational improvements when necessary
- Clean staff office and wash facility laundry
- Participate in activities that promote the Department's Community Oriented Policing philosophy, including allowing the department to use an employee's photo and information for public relations and public service purposes
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Knowledge of Police Department policies and procedures related to correctional facility operations
- Knowledge of Federal, State, and Borough laws and criminal codes related to prisoners, detention facility policy and procedures, Police Department written directives, and Alaska standards pertaining to detention facilities
- Knowledge of behavior patterns of incarcerated persons, techniques of detainee control, defensive tactics, discipline protocols, and grievance procedures
- Skill in remaining alert at all times and reacting quickly and calmly in emergency situations
