corrections officers
Jail staff members
Corrections officers are personnel who guard and supervise inmates in jails, prisons, and other detention facilities.
The term emerged as a more professional-sounding alternative to prison guard, reflecting a shift toward rehabilitation rhetoric in the criminal justice system.
The corrections officers conducted a cell search after the incident.
- wardensSupervisory officials of institutions
- prison guardsPenitentiary security personnel
- jailDetention facility
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- custodyProtective care or control
handcuffs · visitor log · inmate · maximum security · de-escalation techniques · disciplinary actions · incarceration · doing time · restorative justice · penitentiary · lockup · behind bars · cell block · prison reform · guards · prison yard · yard time · body camera
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- uniformed servicesArmy, Air Force, National Guard, military, firefighters
- penologypenology, prisons, incarceration, parole board, prison
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, navy, generals
- courtsfamily court, civil court, district court, criminal court, circuit court
corrections officerspolice officers
Sworn law enforcers
patrol officers · beat cops · detectives · highway patrol · cops
corrections officersdefense attorneys
Lawyers representing accused individuals
public defenders · social workers · prison chaplains · parole officers
correction, corrections, officer, officers, correct, corrective, correctly, correctness, incorrect