Description
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of correctional officers and jailers.
- • Maintain order, discipline, and security within assigned areas in accordance with relevant rules, regulations, policies, and laws.
- • Respond to emergencies, such as escapes.
- • Maintain knowledge of, comply with, and enforce all institutional policies, rules, procedures, and regulations.
- • Supervise and direct the work of correctional officers to ensure the safe custody, discipline, and welfare of inmates.
- • Restrain, secure, or control offenders, using chemical agents, firearms, or other weapons of force as necessary.
- • Supervise or perform searches of inmates or their quarters to locate contraband items.
- • Monitor behavior of subordinates to ensure alert, courteous, and professional behavior toward inmates, parolees, fellow employees, visitors, and the public.
- • Complete administrative paperwork or supervise the preparation or maintenance of records, forms, or reports.
- • Instruct employees or provide on-the-job training.
- • Conduct roll calls of correctional officers.
- • Supervise activities, such as searches, shakedowns, riot control, or institutional tours.
- • Carry injured offenders or employees to safety and provide emergency first aid when necessary.
- • Supervise or provide security for offenders performing tasks, such as construction, maintenance, laundry, food service, or other industrial or agricultural operations.
- • Develop work or security procedures.
- • Set up employee work schedules.
- • Resolve problems between inmates.
- • Rate behavior of inmates, promoting acceptable attitudes and behaviors to those with low ratings.
- • Transfer or transport offenders on foot or by driving vehicles, such as trailers, vans, or buses.
- • Examine incoming or outgoing mail to ensure conformance with regulations.
- • Convey correctional officers' or inmates' complaints to superiors.
- • Review offender information to identify issues that require special attention.
- • Take, receive, or check periodic inmate counts.
- • Conduct evaluations of employees' performance.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
