correctional officers
Jail security personnel
Correctional officers are staff who guard and supervise people held in jails, prisons, and other detention facilities.
The term replaced earlier labels like prison guard or jailer, part of a broader shift toward vocabulary emphasizing rehabilitation over punishment.
Correctional officers conducted a cell search after the incident.
- behind barsIn jail
- prisonsDetention facilities for criminals
- barsRods, taverns, or measures
- guardWatchful defensive attention
- detentionTemporary official holding
prison reform · jailer · parole system · maximum security · use of force · rehabilitation programs · incarceration · body count · cellblock · cell · cell block · solitary confinement · state prisons · restorative justice · vocational training · lockdown · shifts · night shift
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- California PrisonsSan Quentin, Alcatraz, state prison, state prisons, death row
- detentionjail, detention centers, captive, prison, detention orders
- night workersnight owls, night watchman, night auditor, night crew, security guards
correctional officersdefense attorneys
Lawyers representing accused individuals
public defenders · social workers · parole officers · probation officers · prison chaplains
correctional officerssocial workers
Professionals helping struggling individuals
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