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correctional officer

Or correction officer,

noun

  1. an officer of a jail or prison, especially a guard.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of correctional officer1

First recorded in 1970–75
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Is correctional officer the job someone applies for when they have made all the right life choices?

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“They’re causing the issue by keeping them in counties, so they say their numbers are down, so they’re closing prisons,” said Correctional Officer Jeremiah Rohbock, who wrote the initial letter.

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When the correctional officer wheeled the chow cart past my cell on a Thursday morning, without placing a bagged breakfast on my food slot, I knew that it meant I had to stay for the weekend while the guys I had arrived there with transferred out—at this, I shouted a bone-chilling “Noooo!”

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The demonstration followed prosecutors bringing a case against Gregory Rodriguez, a former correctional officer at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, who in January was convicted of 64 sexual abuse charges.

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Laub, whose employment with the department has included a stint as a uniformed correctional officer at the Orange County jail, is accused of stealing her grandmother’s identity and savings for more than five years, prosecutors said.

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