UNIT C: Blog 18

BLOG 18:

A job as a correctional office is a that can be very scary and lots of men and women can fear this position ( video Women correctional officers). one way in which the occupation as a correctional officer stay some what more safe is that they train their officers with traits that would seem more masculine. These officers are trained with traits to know how to deal with these inmates such as tactics they protect them because a job in a prison can include fights and situations where officers and inmates are put in bad situations where they have to have the skills to deal with these people. All officers men and women are given the same training. They are are trained with the abilities to use hand gun, self defence, and physical ability tests. Most if not all most all of the training is hands on training and all the officers say that they learned alot of their knowledge from on the job events (Ch4.)

Federal correctional officers need 200 hours of training and states differences, but they need 160 hours of training. The training includes as a stated before self defence, fire arm training, training with chemical agents, first aid, intervention, physical tests, written tests, and standard for when they can use force. These skills and training tend to reinforce the idea that this is a masculine occupation because the skills ans traits one must learn are more geared toward more masculine traits (ch. 4). The "inflated accounts of violence" account for the masculizing of the correctional Officer's Occupation. these means that even though their is violence their is a somewhat inflated projection of how much actually goes on This reinforcement of the stereotype is seen in the word prison because prison means or is always referring to male prisons. When people think of prisons they always picture male prisons.(PowerPoint 4 & 5).


When looking at male and female prisons and prisoners correctional officers usually prefer to deal with male inmates. This is due to the fact the female inmates are emotional (Power Point). This can be seen in the Locked up video and how much emotion plays into the lives of these inmates. The bonds ans relationships between these women make them emotional, harder to deal with and a scary situation because they stop thinking about them and the consequences and would do anything for the other or to be with the other person (Locked up video). Male prisons are just as bad and female, but female prisoners sometimes bring in different elements that the correctional officers have to deal with. In female prisons there are emotions, "cat fights" and they fight about the littlest details (Ch. 5). As discussed in the locked up video a prison says that the women are on edge and they will start fights about anything and about the smallest words said to them (Locked up). The women are manipulative and question authority. Like the two women from the locked up video these two women, the couple, would use the guards and manipulate them. Another factor that adds to women's prisons is that women are pretty. These factor makes females prisons worse than males is because they are worried, obsessed, and cause problems because they are thinking about their appearance and what the officers see as "trivial" and not important ( Ch. 5).