Blog #16

Going off of the information learned from Britton's study we can see that the path to becoming a correctional officer differs from person to person and from gender to gender. For women, most often times they were in a clerical position before they were hired on by the prison. Men said for the most part that they were not in office type jobs before they took a job as a correctional officer but many said they were in a field in which they excerted themselves physically in some way. The correctional officer job is not one that children aspire to be as shown by the studies in the PowerPoint and women very rarely said that they wanted to be in that field when they were of age to work. The appealing part about the job is that no previous experiance in that particular field is needed, only a high school diploma or GED is necessary, and, as the lesson described, prisons are often times in rural areas where there are not that many other job opportunities and especially ones that offer a steady salary along with benefits. I believe in this field the pay between white men and women and minority men and women are fairly similar, and this is because they all must pass the exact same test to get into the job. A correctional officer may not be the first choice for many young people in the United States but at the end of the day it provides the employess with neccesary life items. Women and men are both veiwed entirely different by the prisoners depending on whether the prisoner is a man or a women and this comes in handy when hiring both genders for the job.