Correctional Officer

LaSalle Corrections•Olla, LA

153d•Onsite

About The Position

The Correctional Officer role involves supervising inmates in various settings, including living areas, recreational activities, and visitation areas. This position is crucial for maintaining facility security, coordinating inmate movements, conducting counts, and responding to emergencies. Officers may also be assigned to specialized roles such as control center operations, mailroom security, tower duty, medical security, perimeter security, and gate operations. They provide security during treatment activities and supervise labor crews in areas like the kitchen. A key aspect of the role is providing prompt and appropriate assistance to inmates during medical or emotional distress. The position requires preparing reports, maintaining logs, initiating disciplinary actions, conducting searches for contraband, and promoting facility cleanliness. Correctional Officers also serve as members of special response teams.

Requirements

Must be representative of worthwhile qualities to which an inmate can identify
Must be emotionally stable, understanding, and philosophically attuned to the objective of the facility.
Language skills and reasoning ability are crucial to success in this position.
Interacts daily with offenders and staff members while providing security for the facility.
High school diploma or equivalent
Successful completion of training courses and on-the-job training as required by facility training standards.
Long periods of continuous standing and walking per shift.
Frequent periods of sitting per shift.
Repetitive climbing of stairs to reach the assigned areas and working at heights
Occasional kneeling, squatting, and bending to perform “pat” or “strip” searches
Frequent grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting
Occasionally responding to altercations and occasional restraining and securing assaultive offenders
Ability to respond rapidly to potential security and/or medical codes/issues
Frequent transferrers and transporting offenders by walking or riding in various vehicles such as vans, buses, and other forms of transportation
Continuous periods of operating/driving company vehicles to pick up and transport offenders per shift.
Remaining awake and alert while on duty per shift.
Ability to occasionally withstand direct or indirect exposure to OC spray
Ability to hear and understand verbal communication.

Nice To Haves

Experience in correctional setting is highly desirable

Responsibilities

Supervises inmates in living areas and recreational activities.
Supervises inmates and visitors in visitation areas.
Serves as control center officer, coordinates and monitors inmate movements, conducts counts, and provides emergency response.
Serves as mailroom, field tower, medical security, perimeter security, and/or gate officer as required.
Provides security in treatment activities and supervises labor crews in the kitchen and other specialized areas.
Ensures prompt and appropriate assistance to inmates in the event of injury, illness, and emotional trauma.
Prepares reports and maintains daily logs as required.
Initiates disciplinary reports.
Conduct shakedown for contraband materials, either individually or as part of a specialized team.
Promotes facility cleanliness and reports need for maintenance and/or repairs.
Serves as a member of special teams to respond.
Performs a variety of marginal duties not listed, to be determined and assigned as needed.