How do they match: Correctional Officers and Jailers

  • Community Service Aide
  • Community Services Officer
  • Immigration Services Officer
  • Protective Services Officer

  • Serve meals, distribute commissary items, and dispense prescribed medication to prisoners.
  • Drive passenger vehicles and trucks used to transport inmates to other institutions, courtrooms, hospitals, and work sites.
  • Monitor conduct of prisoners in housing unit, or during work or recreational activities, according to established policies, regulations, and procedures, to prevent escape or violence.
  • Search prisoners and vehicles and conduct shakedowns of cells for valuables and contraband, such as weapons or drugs.
  • Sponsor inmate recreational activities, such as newspapers and self-help groups.
  • Supervise and coordinate work of other correctional service officers.

  • Drive vehicles to transport individuals or equipment.
  • Locate suspicious objects or vehicles.