Correctional Supervisors

Key Responsibilities

• Review offender information to identify issues that require special attention.
• Transfer or transport offenders on foot or by driving vehicles, such as trailers, vans, or buses.
• Rate behavior of inmates, promoting acceptable attitudes and behaviors to those with low ratings.
• Take, receive, or check periodic inmate counts.
• Supervise or perform searches of inmates or their quarters to locate contraband items.
• Complete administrative paperwork or supervise the preparation or maintenance of records, forms, or reports.
• Carry injured offenders or employees to safety and provide emergency first aid when necessary.
• Supervise or provide security for offenders performing tasks, such as construction, maintenance, laundry, food service, or other industrial or agricultural operations.
• Set up employee work schedules.
• Instruct employees or provide on-the-job training.
• Conduct roll calls of correctional officers.
• Convey correctional officers' or inmates' complaints to superiors.
• Conduct evaluations of employees' performance.
• Respond to emergencies, such as escapes.
• Monitor behavior of subordinates to ensure alert, courteous, and professional behavior toward inmates, parolees, fellow employees, visitors, and the public.
• Examine incoming or outgoing mail to ensure conformance with regulations.
• Maintain knowledge of, comply with, and enforce all institutional policies, rules, procedures, and regulations.
• Resolve problems between inmates.
• Supervise activities, such as searches, shakedowns, riot control, or institutional tours.
• Develop work or security procedures.
• Supervise and direct the work of correctional officers to ensure the safe custody, discipline, and welfare of inmates.
• Maintain order, discipline, and security within assigned areas in accordance with relevant rules, regulations, policies, and laws.
• Restrain, secure, or control offenders, using chemical agents, firearms, or other weapons of force as necessary.