It's a good job. Lots of training, lots of responsibility, good people working at FDCF. An eye opening experience with never a dull moment. I enjoyed every minute of it.

I went to work with a painful foot.

Got the corrections officer job. Applied for Level 1 thy wanted me as a Level 3 was not happy about that bumped me down to a level 2 and bumped my salary $5000 a year. YAY

Takes a special person to work with inmates

Quit without notice

its under paid, over worked and run by the good ole boy system. I had a Capt. on day shift tell me, I would never get off nights and never get promoted. not sure what his problem was but i don't have time for dead end jobs and thats the impression he left me with.

I am a substance abuse counselor with roughly 20 years in the field, including 18 years in corrections, 16 of which were with the Maine State Prison. I developed programs for different levels of addiction (and interest), trained new employees, was liaison for the 12-step programs and volunteers, and served on the classification committee. I am currently looking (in mid-coast Maine) for similar work, I hope for people who allow creativity, exchange of ideas, and my own opinion about things (this doesn't mean I go against supervisors, though my last one didn't understand this). I want to work for someone who respects my knowledge and experience.

I loved my job there. I learned how to do the intake for booking I also shower and changed over the females and got them out to their pods, I worked mostly Night Shift and I was there for 11 years. Had had to be in a month course and pass state test to be a corrections officer anywhere in the state of Ohio. prior to that I worked for the commissioners and I worked for them for 3 1/2 years.

pay attention to detail and never leave any haps. Make sure all your paperwork is done on time and to the letter and ALWAYS keep a personal copy of everything you do paperwork wise in a secure area. If it involves an incident with another officer wherever he or she was involved have them read your account of the incident and have them countersign that it is true and accurate on all your copies and keep them secure.

my biggest mistake I made while working here was to trust that my co-workers had the same work ethic that I had, or the love of the "work" we had to do. When you work in this field you dedicate yourself to the mission at hand and tend to develop side blinders and all your focus goes to getting the job done. There are others that bask in other peoples mistakes in things like paperwork, or they make notes and develop things to make themselves look better without doing anything themselves to elevate their position in the chain of command. Nepotism tended to play a big part also I went into this department from another county so I was an outsider, the majority were all relatives of higher ranking people within.