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Correctional Officer Training

The recent high number of incidents of correctional officer brutality against inmates underscores the importance of correctional officer training. However, in light of overcrowded prisons, inadequate budgets, and a lack of qualified correctional officers, many prisons have been cutting back on training or eliminating it altogether. In the face of inhumane and brutal treatment of many inmates, prisons need to increase training programs with a focus on the inherent worth of inmates despite their past crimes and incarcerated condition.

The need for more training for correctional officers has been a focus in the media of late because of the high number of violent acts perpetrated by guards against inmates. From the rape of female inmates by male guards to the death of inmates who allegedly provoked incidents with guards, correctional officers have been indicted and convicted of many types of abuse in recent years. After the murder of an inmate by a corrections officer, authorities began a review of personnel files and found mixed histories among the guards who had been suspended due to an inmate’s death “The highest-ranking corrections officer suspended following the death of a condemned murdered had a history of using force against those he guarded…a 14-year veteran of the state prison system has been involved in 50 struggles with inmates dating back to 1985” (Pellemans and Wasson 1).

Many argue in defense of prison guards. They argue that the inmates are violent and dangerous and abuse does not happen without reason or provocation. However, so many incidents that put the lie to this reasoning have been documented of late that anyone aware of the facts argues in favor of more training and more humane treatment of inmates by guards. For example, at Corcoran State Prison, California’s top maximum-security prison, guards staged fights between inmates in the prison yard and took bets on them. The ritual became known ...

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