Jail Correctional Officer

Jail Guard Position

Employer: Brown County - HR

Salary: $20.67 Hourly

Location: 25 Market Street, Aberdeen, SD 57401

Job Type: Full-Time

Department: Sheriff's Department - Jail

Closing Date: Continuous

Summary/Objective: Guards prisoners in the Brown County Jail, assuming responsibility for the safety and needs of staff and inmates during incarceration by performing the following duties.

Essential Functions:

• Effectively restrain inmate, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints.
• Break up fights and affrays using minimal force.
• Pursue fleeing inmates.
• Perform rescue operations; quickly entering and exiting secured areas; lifting, carrying, and dragging heavy objects; climbing through openings, jumping over obstacles, crawling in confined areas, and using body force to gain entrance.
• Prepare investigative and other reports; including sketches, using appropriate grammar, symbols, and mathematical computations.
• Detect and collect evidence and substances that provide the basis of criminal offenses or administrative violations.
• Endure verbal and mental abuse when confronted with hostile views and opinions of inmates and other people in an antagonistic environment.
• Perform rescue functions at accidents, emergencies, and disasters; may include standing for long periods of time, administering basic emergency medical aid, lifting, dragging, and carrying people away from dangerous situations; securing and evacuating people from confined areas.
• Possess sufficient dexterity to manipulate keys, keyboards, operate levers and buttons; manually operate heavy doors; count, collect, and inventory small items.
• Read and comprehend legal and non-legal documents; including the processing of medical instructions, commitment orders, summons, warrants, and other legal rights.
• Exercises independent judgment in determining the appropriate classification of inmates.
• Accurately observing and recording prisoner behavior.
• Assessing and responding to the needs of special populations.
• Engage in functions, such as preparing and serving food, maintenance, and janitorial functions, working different shifts, extended walking on foot patrol, and physically checking the doors, window, and other areas to ensure that they are secure.
• Communicate with court officials to ensure the availability of inmates for trials or hearings.
• Demonstrate communications skills in court and other formal settings.
• Transports and escorts prisoners, detainee's and committed mental patients, using handcuffs and other appropriate restraints.
• Schedules visits of inmates for medical treatment.
• Performs searches of people, mail items, objects capable of concealing contraband, buildings, and large outdoor area which may involve feeling and detecting objects, walking for long periods of time, and detaining people.
• Conducts visual and audio surveillance both within and outside the perimeter of the jail for extended periods of time.
• Inspects facilities for cleanliness.
• Makes determination of trustees to be used in the jail.
• Prepares reports concerning inmate population and jail functions, as required by law.
• Prepares requisitions for commissary, clothing, and housekeeping supplies.