correctional officer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of correctional officer
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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During testimony last week, Tomas Rivers, a correctional officer from State Correctional Institution Huntingdon, where Mangione was first held, described conversations he had with the accused, according to Rolling Stone:
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2025
Is correctional officer the job someone applies for when they have made all the right life choices?
From Slate • Oct. 8, 2025
It was after the daily 9 p.m. head count at the California Institution for Women in Chino when she was taken out of her cell by a correctional officer she thought was her friend.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024
Average correctional officer vacancy rates for fiscal year 2023 were 30% for state-run facilities and 42% for CoreCivic facilities, which house over a third of Tennessee’s 19,000 prison inmates.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2023
I had been to this prison often enough to be familiar to many of the correctional officers, but as I entered I was met by a correctional officer I’d never seen before.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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