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What You'll Do: The job of a correctional officer usually involves: maintaining records and writing reports, patrolling the facility and facility grounds to keep an eye on prisoner activity and location, making sure all inmates do their chores, restraining inmates who refuse to cooperate, escorting prisoners from one location to another, preventing inmate-on-inmate crimes, preventing inmate escape, offering advice and counseling for prisoners, performing searches for illegal drugs or makeshift weapons, doing routine quality inspections on facilities, engaging in routine re-enactments and training for a number of different scenarios, doing physical training, and enforcing all the rules of the correctional facility.

You will probably be employed by the local, state, or federal government and work eight-hour shifts for five days every week. Overtime work as well as nights, weekends, and holidays are not uncommon.

Education and Training: Correctional officers are required to have at least a high school diploma or GED for employment, although most possess associate's or bachelor's degrees. Most will undergo a training academy to learn the necessary skills to perform the job competently. Topics of interest might include: general duties of COs, general rules and regulations of correctional facilities, self-defense techniques, weapons handling, how to perform searches, security procedures and more.

If hired, you must complete more on-the-job training to get acquainted with the particular correctional facility you are assigned to. Applicants with military or law enforcement experience or a degree in psychology or counseling may have an edge when it comes to landing a position. Those with counseling or supervising experience may also have an advantage.

The Future: The Correctional Officer profession is expected to grow at about 5% through 2020. That's slower than the average for all occupations, and will likely result in competition for available positions. 

The Pay: Annual salaries for Correctional Officers in the U.S. range from $26,000 to $67,200, with the average median annual wage hitting $38,900 in 2011 as per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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