1. Correctional officer
Emmah Alvarado

2. What do they do?
• Enforce rules and keep order in prisons
• Supervise inmates
• Help in rehabilitation patients
• Search inmates
• Report on inmates

3. Where does one work?
• Prisons and prison camps
• Youth correctional facilities
• City and county jails
• Federal correctional institutions

4. What college major or program or
post-high school training is necessary?
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Moderate term on the job training
• Recommended 2 year associates degree

5. Skills and qualities
• Ability to think and act • Reading
quickly comprehension(5)
• Good judgment • Active listening(5)
• Ability to take and give • Writing(4)
orders • Speaking(5)
• alertness • Critical thinking(4)
• Active learning(4)
• Learning strategies(4)
• Monitoring(4)
• Math(2)
• Science(1)

6. Colleges
• Kaplan university-Davenport, Iowa
– (Tuition, fees, room and board)7,816
• Simpson College-Iowa- undergraduate
bachelors degree in criminal justice
– Annual tuition-$27,568
– Annual fees-$555
– Tuition per credit hour-$318
– Room charge-$3,860
– Board charge-$4,103

7. Annual Salary
• $41,000-$60,500 per year
– $19.75-$29.00 per hour

8. Hours
• All year round
• Rotating shift work
• 8 hours a day 5 days a week

9. Likes and dislikes
Dislike Like
• Stressful and hazardous • Good employment
nature of the job opportunities
• Possible injury • Working with people
• Working • Getting payed overtime
evenings/weekends/hol
idays
• Rotating shifts
• Working in crowded
noisy areas

10. Projected growth
• Per year- 0.9%
• Growth of all occupations-1%
• Number of new jobs a year- 4,600
• Expected to grow moderately-0.7%-1.9%