Life Inside a State Corrections Security Employee
The life inside a corrections professional can be quite stressful in certain situations, and it is constantly a learning process. Lieutenant Jackson of the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women explains what it is like inside his shoes in a corrections professional, the experience and education that is needed, the different qualities that it takes to be a good supervisor, and also some of the basic tasks and daily stresses that come with the corrections profession. Life in corrections can be stressful, but also rewarding, but it takes the right person wanting to be in corrections for the right reasons to help the system work to the best potential. Lieutenant(Lt.) Jackson has been promoted …show more content…
Jackson explained some of the small stressors being things like sick calls of staff, sending inmates out to the local hospitals, and the security of the staff and inmates while being at work. The large stressors are things like assaults in the facility between not only inmates but also inmates and staff, things like emergency medical situations, and things like inmates making disturbances. Jackson described a situation that happened about a year ago, where an inmate placed herself inside of the razor wire along the fence to make a statement. This caused the institution to go on lockdown, and an emergency to be declared. He talked about how the whole institution was affected and even part of the department that is not located at that actual facility came to the institution to take control of the disturbance. Jackson stated, “This was a huge stressor and caused many staff members to work sixteen plus hour shifts that day, but in the end everyone came together as a team, no one was hurt, and all the staff went home to their families.” Jackson explained how this shows that the training that the department receives initially upon hire and annually keeps people within the department safe. Life in corrections is a very dangerous career, it can get violent and at times scary especially with the types of criminals coming in now, but with the tools that we are given and always being alert and ready for anything it can help prevent unnecessary things from happening. The criminal profiles that are coming in are young and disrespectful, they often times have also been raised in bad situations, and this can cause things to also be dangerous. “Yes, there are murders and sexual offenders that come in every day, but it’s the young ones that come in with drug problems, and assault people for looking at them the wrong way that you have to worry about. These are the types of inmates that come in that
The life inside a corrections professional can be quite stressful in certain situations, and it is constantly a learning process. Lieutenant Jackson of the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women explains what it is like inside his shoes in a corrections professional, the experience and education that is needed, the different qualities that it takes to be a good supervisor, and also some of the basic tasks and daily stresses that come with the corrections profession. Life in corrections can be stressful, but also rewarding, but it takes the right person wanting to be in corrections for the right reasons to help the system work to the best potential. Lieutenant(Lt.) Jackson has been promoted …show more content…
Jackson explained some of the small stressors being things like sick calls of staff, sending inmates out to the local hospitals, and the security of the staff and inmates while being at work. The large stressors are things like assaults in the facility between not only inmates but also inmates and staff, things like emergency medical situations, and things like inmates making disturbances. Jackson described a situation that happened about a year ago, where an inmate placed herself inside of the razor wire along the fence to make a statement. This caused the institution to go on lockdown, and an emergency to be declared. He talked about how the whole institution was affected and even part of the department that is not located at that actual facility came to the institution to take control of the disturbance. Jackson stated, “This was a huge stressor and caused many staff members to work sixteen plus hour shifts that day, but in the end everyone came together as a team, no one was hurt, and all the staff went home to their families.” Jackson explained how this shows that the training that the department receives initially upon hire and annually keeps people within the department safe. Life in corrections is a very dangerous career, it can get violent and at times scary especially with the types of criminals coming in now, but with the tools that we are given and always being alert and ready for anything it can help prevent unnecessary things from happening. The criminal profiles that are coming in are young and disrespectful, they often times have also been raised in bad situations, and this can cause things to also be dangerous. “Yes, there are murders and sexual offenders that come in every day, but it’s the young ones that come in with drug problems, and assault people for looking at them the wrong way that you have to worry about. These are the types of inmates that come in that