Blog 16

Blog 16

A woman’s dream job is not to be a correctional officer. Before women became correctional officers, they used to have secretarial and clerical jobs. Nearly all of the women working as correctional officers did so as a last resort and expressed how they were felt scared at first. It is very rare for a woman to grow up wanting to be a correctional officer. However, men grow up wanting to be a police officer and then began to favor corrections.
Men and women were attracted to the work because of the pay and benefits. Also, prisons tend to be located in isolated rural areas where well-paying jobs are scarce. Single mothers were enticed by the job’s pay, security, benefits and retirement. Men are way more likely to want to become a correctional officer by choice and not by the pay. Men seem to not care about the pay but actually have love for the job.
Many people who became correctional officers have never visited a prison before. The media portrays prison to be constantly dangerous for the correctional officers and that they are always on alert for a problem to occur. Some of the officers who were interviewed felt that prison was going to be violent like movies and television portray, but found it was actually not.