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Goodness Gracious....difficult child#2 has been hired by the State Prison!
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 597371" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Got my fingers crossed for him that he does well. It might vary from state but our Correctional Officers go through very vigorous training before they are ever actually allowed to work around inmates. We have a training academy where they go for the first six weeks. They take all kinds of classes in policies and procedures, self-defense, how to handle inmates, first aid, CPR, safety, legal issues - anything and everything. They will be expected to follow the policies and procedures to the letter! They also receive both physical and psychological exams while they're there so his diagnoses may become a problem. With ours, when they finish the academy, they then return to the institution and go through another six weeks of closely supervised on-the-job training.</p><p></p><p>I hate to sound too discouraging and who knows, he may turn out to have a real knack for it. But the job of Correctional Officer in a prison is <em><strong>extremely</strong></em> stressful and a huge responsibility. If you're careless or make a mistake there, someone could die. CO's are under constant pressure, both from the inmates and the administration. Dealing with inmates all day is about as stressful as it gets and would try the patience of a saint! They will be disrespectful, call him names, throw things and sometimes try to spit on him - or worse! They try to "test" the new employees and will attempt to run every game in the book on him. Some people can handle it and some people can't. Again, I don't want to sound discouraging. He just might find his "nicht" there and do very well. Much luck to him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 597371, member: 1883"] Got my fingers crossed for him that he does well. It might vary from state but our Correctional Officers go through very vigorous training before they are ever actually allowed to work around inmates. We have a training academy where they go for the first six weeks. They take all kinds of classes in policies and procedures, self-defense, how to handle inmates, first aid, CPR, safety, legal issues - anything and everything. They will be expected to follow the policies and procedures to the letter! They also receive both physical and psychological exams while they're there so his diagnoses may become a problem. With ours, when they finish the academy, they then return to the institution and go through another six weeks of closely supervised on-the-job training. I hate to sound too discouraging and who knows, he may turn out to have a real knack for it. But the job of Correctional Officer in a prison is [I][B]extremely[/B][/I] stressful and a huge responsibility. If you're careless or make a mistake there, someone could die. CO's are under constant pressure, both from the inmates and the administration. Dealing with inmates all day is about as stressful as it gets and would try the patience of a saint! They will be disrespectful, call him names, throw things and sometimes try to spit on him - or worse! They try to "test" the new employees and will attempt to run every game in the book on him. Some people can handle it and some people can't. Again, I don't want to sound discouraging. He just might find his "nicht" there and do very well. Much luck to him. [/QUOTE]
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