correctional officer

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During testimony last week, Tomas Rivers, a correctional officer from State Correctional Institution Huntingdon, where Mangione was first held, described conversations he had with the accused, according to Rolling Stone:

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2025

Is correctional officer the job someone applies for when they have made all the right life choices?

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2025

Last month, a correctional officer who worked at FCI Dublin was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2024

Average correctional officer vacancy rates for fiscal year 2023 were 30% for state-run facilities and 42% for CoreCivic facilities, which house over a third of Tennessee’s 19,000 prison inmates.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2023

I had been to this prison often enough to be familiar to many of the correctional officers, but as I entered I was met by a correctional officer I’d never seen before.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson