Job: Corrections Specialist

The skills you'll learn as a Corrections Specialist will help prepare you for a future with federal, state, county or city law enforcement agencies. You might also be able to pursue a career as a security guard with industrial firms, airports or other businesses and institutions.

Corrections Specialists, or Military Police in the Army National Guard are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. Correction Specialists provide rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to US military prisoners within a confinement or correctional facility; provide custody, control, supervision and security to internees within a detention/internment facility; conduct inspections; prepare written reports; coordinate activities of prisoners/internees and staff personnel.

Some of your duties as an Corrections Specialist may include:
* Assisting with supervision and management of confinement and detention operations
* Providing internal or external security to confinement/corrections facilities or detention/internment facilities
* Providing custody, control, supervision and escort to all security levels of U.S. military prisoners or internees/detainees
* Counseling and guidance to individual prisoners within a rehabilitative program
* Prepare or review reports and records of prisoners/internees and programs

The Army National Guard is a military service with a mission to support and defend not only the Constitution of the United States, but also that of individual States. As a National Guardsmen you will train one weekend a month, and two weeks out of the year.

As a National Guard Member you may be eligible for the following benefits:
* Earn extra pay for working one weekend a month and 2 weeks per year
* 100% Tuition Assistance programs
* Student Loan Repayment Program
* Army Academic Training Transcripts
* Life Insurance
* The opportunity to serve your community

Helpful attributes include:
* An ability to think and react quickly
* An ability to remain calm in stressful situations
* An interest in law enforcement and crime prevention

Responsibilities
* Supervises and establishes all administrative, logistical and food support operations, confinement/correctional, custodial, treatment, and rehabilitative activities
* Responsible for all personnel working in the confinement/correctional facility, including security, logistical, and administrative management of the prisoner/internee population
* Conduct stand-alone operations, provide command and control, staff planning, administration and logistical services, and custody/control for the operation of an Enemy Prisoner of War/Civilian Internee (EPW/CI) camp, detainee internment facility
* Conduct stand-alone operations, provide command and control, staff planning, administration and logistical services, and custody/control for the operation of a displaced civilian (DC) resettlement facility