Detention Officer

LaSalle Corrections; Jonesboro (LA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

LaSalle Corrections seeks a Full-Time Service Worker to supervise non-citizens and visitors, coordinate movements, counts, and emergency responses at Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro, LA. The role includes various security duties across multiple areas and strict adherence to training standards.

Responsibilities include reporting incidents, logs, disciplinary actions, contraband searches, and assisting with special teams as needed.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Correctional experience is highly desirable.
• Ability to maintain security and discipline.

Responsibilities

• Supervise non-citizens in living areas and visitation areas.
• Coordinate movements, counts, and emergency response.
• Serve in mailroom, field tower, medical security, perimeter/security or gate roles as required.
• Provide security in treatment activities and supervise labor crews.
• Prepare and maintain daily logs and disciplinary reports.
• Promote facility cleanliness and report maintenance needs.
• Complete TOPS training and background screening where applicable.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Security awareness

Communication skills

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Jackson Parish Correctional Center | Jackson Parish Correctional Center
327 Industrial Dr
Jonesboro, LA 71251, USA

• Rate: $19.86 USD per hour
• Service Workers
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: DETEN002476

Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises non-citizens in living areas and recreational activities. Supervises non-citizens and visitors in visitation areas.
• Serves as control center officer, coordinates and monitors non-citizen movements, conducts counts, and provides emergency response.
• Serves as mailroom, field tower, medical security, perimeter security, and/or gate officer as required.
• Provides security in treatment activities and supervises labor crews in the kitchen and other specialized areas.
• Ensures prompt and appropriate assistance to non-citizens in the event of injury, illness, and emotional trauma.
• Prepares reports and maintains daily logs as required.
• Initiates disciplinary reports.
• Conduct shakedown for contraband materials, either individually or as part of a specialized team.
• Promotes facility cleanliness and reports need for maintenance and/or repairs.
• Serves as a member of special teams to respond.
• Successful completion of training courses and on-the-job training as required by facility training standards.
• Performs a variety of marginal duties not listed, to be determined and assigned as needed.
• Successful completion of TOPS training and background screening where applicable

Required Knowledge Skills/Abilities:

• Must be representative of worthwhile qualities to which a non-citizen can identify
• Must be emotionally stable, understanding, and philosophically attuned to the objective of the facility.
• Language skills and reasoning ability are crucial to success in this position.
• Interacts daily with non-citizens and staff members while providing security for the facility.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Experience in correctional setting is highly desirable

Physical Requirements:

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to satisfactorily perform these essential functions without causing an undue hardship for the employer.

• Long periods of continuous standing and walking per shift.
• Frequent periods of sitting per shift.
• Repetitive climbing of stairs to reach the assigned areas and working at heights.
• Occasional kneeling, squatting, and bending to perform “pat” or “strip” searches.
• Frequent grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting.
• Occasionally responding to altercations and occasional restraining and securing assaultive offenders.
• Ability to respond rapidly to potential security and/or medical codes/issues.
• Frequent transferrers and transporting non-citizens by walking or riding in various vehicles such as vans, buses, and other forms of transportation.
• Continuous periods of operating/driving company vehicles to pick up and transport non-citizens per shift.
• Remaining awake and alert while on duty per shift.
• Occasional lifting and carrying up to 50-100 lbs.

Ability to occasionally withstand direct or indirect exposure to OC spray.

• Ability to hear and understand verbal communication.

Pay: $19.86 per hour

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