r/OnTheBlock

I’m a nurse who has worked in Corrections off and on since 2008.

I’m currently working in a Psych ER where we sometimes who have patients that get violent.

I was talking with co-workers the other night and realized that I had never once felt unsafe while working in Corrections, even with some awful inmates, and that’s because I always knew the officers had my back and wouldn’t let me get hurt.

That means a lot by itself, and especially comparing it to how my current management team doesn’t care about staff safety at all, it means even more.

So a sincere THANK YOU to all the officers who kept me and my fellow nurses and medical staff safe over all these years.

Hey everyone, me and a few other people didn’t hear back from NJDOC after our home interview. Their academy started in March, is it safe to say we weren’t selected?

I currently work as a Detention Officer with an agency who’s suffering major staffing shortages and bad retention (who isn’t right lol) Most people leave here just after a year.

I’m using this information to help bad retention and low recruitment efforts.

I came up with the schedule that would allow you to work 2 days on and 5 days off at TWO 16 hours shifts with no required hang over for pass on.

You would have a set schedule working the same times and days every week.

There would be an eight hour overlap between the dayshift and the night shift.

You would work 104 days on a year and have 261 days off in the year.

Would you work a 2 On - 5 Off schedule?

If “No” why?

TIA

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Does any one have any insight on being a correctional officer for the city of Santa Ana , California. I have the pat test and all my interviews in two weeks. Also how long did it take to get an academy date. I graduate college in June so won’t be able to commit until then.

I want to apply to the BOP, but I am worried from stuff that happened in my past. I was arrested when I was 18 for a battery on a family member that was later dismissed and when I was 17, I got shot while hanging with a friend that was selling weed I am 23 now have since then worked armed security and unarmed 3 years straight having even 2 jobs at a time for 1.5 years and I wanted to see if someone can share there thoughts from there experience thank you

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if any Ontario correctional officers in here could offer some advice.

I’m currently working toward a career in policing, and I’ve been considering working as a correctional officer to gain some relevant experience in the meantime. The only thing is I’m still in university, so I was just wondering if correctional services typically offer any part-time or on-call positions, or if it’s mostly full-time only? Also, would this even be a realistic route while in school?

Any insight on how you got started, or what you’d recommend in my position, would be really appreciated.

Hello y’all I’m at my 3rd attempt on Florida corrections soce I keep barely failing can anyone help me what to use to study so I can pass??

I built LOC8 around a very specific problem I ran into on the job. Sometimes you just need to know exactly where you are fast, without opening a map, zooming in, and trying to make sense of everything while a lot is going on.

The original use case was law enforcement, especially for moments on foot or right after things settle down enough to get updated location info out. Open the app and it shows your current address, nearest cross street, GPS coordinates, heading, elevation, and a location code right away.

What I did not expect was how many people outside that world would find it useful too. It ended up getting used for travel, rideshare pickups, roadside issues, hiking, unfamiliar neighborhoods, crowded events, and just those moments where you need to tell someone exactly where you are without fumbling through Maps.

There is also an Apple Watch app for the quick location check, while the iPhone app handles the broader tools like pinning locations, saving them, tracking location codes on the map, and routing back to pinned spots later.

One example is our homeless outreach team. They can go into rural parts of town, pin a camp or another hard to describe spot, and later come back and track right back to that same location using the map and compass.

It is a simple app, but it solves a real problem. That has led to it growing to more than 1,000 users, which has honestly been pretty cool to see.

Curious what people think, and what you would want added or changed.

I got 122/200 :( guess I'll try back in 180 days. anyone else daily the first time?