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Training of Corrections Officers

An instructor with a long black beard looks at a screen as he lectures in a classroom filled with students sitting in their desks.
News June 26
Help Wanted (in Prison): Texas Recruits High School Kids To Be Corrections Officers
Short on guards, the state hopes to attract students enrolled in career training programs once they turn 18.
By Anya Slepyan
Life Inside May 6, 2021
Cadets Violently Strip Searched Us As Part of Their Training. For My Pain, I Got $325.
Willette Benford was one of several incarcerated women who sued the Illinois corrections department for using mass strip searches to train cadets. A small settlement check took her back to the shame and trauma of those incidents.
By Willette Benford
The Language Project April 12, 2021
I Was Trained to Call Prisoners a Word They Hated
As correctional officers, we are conditioned to call prisoners ‘inmates.’ But at Sing Sing, where I worked for 25 years, that was as bad as calling them a snitch.
By Kevin Byrd, as told to
Life Inside October 13, 2016
How My Time as a Private Prison Guard Changed the Way I See Inmates
“No one wants to be accused of being ‘inmate-friendly.’”
By M. Leann Skeen
Feature February 28, 2016
What Prison Guards Really Think About Their Jobs
Listening in on watercooler chatter online.
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Detail of the uniform of a correctional officer at the Waldeck Prison in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
News June 22, 2015
The Stiff Competition to Work in German Prisons
How Germany does prison, day five.
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Commentary June 9, 2015
Fixing the Jail Where Kalief Browder was Held
Former corrections chief Martin Horn has some ideas for Rikers Island.
By Martin F. Horn
News June 5, 2015
Job Opening: No Training, Low Pay, High Turnover
In Mississippi prisons last year, half the officers quit.
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