Ask a Corrections Officer

[abaris]

Other people take the job because they have friends and family on the inside as inmates and they are helping out by sneaking them things and selling it. It's a sad reality, but I've seen it happen time and time again.

Or, possibly, because they don't find another job. I watched a documentary about corrections officers once and one thing really apalled me. There was a female officer, who got injured on the job. And because she needed surgery and couldn't work for an extended period of time, they simply gave her the boot, saying she could apply again when being fit enough. She lost all benefits of course.

That's unthinkable where I'm from and disgusting in my personal opinion.