Performs sworn corrections duties involving the care, custody, and physical restraint, when necessary, of prisoners or inmates within a corrections facility or while on work detail or while being transported outside the facility.

Responsibilities include; booking and releasing offenders, maintaining security of the facility, enforcing security rules, regulations and procedures, and escorting offenders within and/or outside the secure confines of the corrections facility.

Supervises meal periods, inmate visitations and inmate and trustee-inmate work details in and out of the facility or during recreational activities.

Completes and maintains accurate records, logs, incident reports, court paperwork, or affidavits in accordance with agency policy and state statutes.

Operates computerized management information systems to retrieve or enter information.

Maintains accountability for tools, equipment, and facility keys.

Observes inmate behaviors and physical conditions. Counsels inmates and reports unusual changes. Obtains appropriate assistance for treatment when needed and administers first aid in an emergency.

Provides direct supervision and documentation of inmates and their movement within housing areas of a correction facility, secure perimeter or while transporting including verifying accurate identification and counts.

Process Inmates Receives and processes inmates from officers and the courts. Maintains inmate property and assigns proper level of confinement.

Conducts a variety of searches/inspections and/or pat downs of individuals, materials, and facilities for contraband, evidence, escape attempts, unauthorized articles, weapons, evidence of unauthorized activities, and infractions of rules.

Inmate Movement Escorts inmates to and from cells. May transport inmates to other facilities as required.