Great video, I really appreciate hearing about your experience being a CO. I'm actually in a similar boat right now with myself here. I've been out of the academy for a month now. And I think about quitting weekly. It's a good job but I don't think the academy does enough to actually prepare CO's for the day to day, they only really prepare for the worst case scenarios imo. I really want to try to hit my one year mark and give it fair chance but we'll see.

I graduated the academy a month ago. And right now I can say is that the pay is decent but the routine is getting old and boring now. I drive an hour and some Change everyday and it’s getting annoying.

I just found your video, appreciate seeing this video... Quick question maybe you might have advice on this situation I'm dealing with. I currently work juvenile corrections in California I won't say which county let's just say they don't allow us any protection whatsoever basically just a pair of handcuffs and verbal judo.. many of my classmates and other new graduates within the past six months have left his profession. I give it my best I don't know what else to do since I've been injured due to an assault, I think it's time for me to move on to another department.. My question is do you think human resources or management would be understanding if one was to leave without wanting to come back due to feeling their safety has been compromised and the environment is not safe. Is given a two-week notice even necessary when you informed them of your decision and don't even plan on coming back to finish those two weeks?? Thanks again for the video it helped me a lot watching.

i'm assuming you got in before they made it mandatory to pay them back for training academy if you quit unless you put in 2yrs with them you will owe roughly 5.5k on training academy costs or do 2yrs and you owe them nothing) I haven't done academy yet but I did work about 6 days on compound so far did locker searches, like 3-4 counts per shift, coolers, yard, control room, security checks, staff pat downs, logs, chow hall, fence checks, honestly most of my coworkers are dope people aside from the 5% of people who got real issues. It's alpha,bravo,charlie out here too in florida on the dorms too. I personally hate culinary more than chow time tbh just cause if you manage the inmates who do cooking and it's hot asf in there like an oven. I'm seriously thinking about transitioning to a male prison after 2yrs tho just cause I don't wanna catch any false prea charges and have it impact my career in corrections moving forward

How long did you do corrections for?