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Date Posted: 06:51:57 10/12/08 Sun
Author: FYI
Subject: Happy retirement

Correctional Officer Statistics
Posted in Articles on October 10, 2008 by cosgoingwrong
Correctional Officer Statistics


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2007 Correctional Statistics

Who Are Correctional Officers?

77.7% male, 22.3% female

69.5% white, 20.8% black, 5.7% Hispanic

80.5% are between the ages of 30 - 44

63.9% have some college experience,25% have a college degree, 19%
Bachelors, 4.5% Masters, 1.5% Ph.D.

Correctional Officers (COfs) have the second highest mortality rate of
any occupation.

33.5% of all assaults in prisons and jails are committed by inmates
against staff.

A COfs 58th birthday, on average, is their last.

A CO will be seriously assaulted at least twice in a 20 year career.

On average a CO will live only 18 months after retirement.

COfs have a 39% higher suicide rate than any other occupation,

And have a higher divorce and substance abuse rates then the general
population.

Sources:
gStress Management for the Professional Correctional Officerh, Donald
Steele, Ph.D., Steele Publishing 2001

-hCorrections Yearbook 2000, 2002, Criminal Justice Institute,
Middletown, CT
-hSourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2003, Bureau of Justice
-Statistics, 31st edition, NCJ 208756

-hSuicide Risk Among Correctional Officersh, Archives of Suicide
Research, Stack, S.J., & Tsoudis, O. 1997
-Metropolitan Life Actuarial Statistics, 1998
-Society of Actuaries, 1994

Assaults
33,000 inmate on staff assaults per year
90 assaults per day, 3.7 per hour
2.7 staff assaults per 100 inmates - county
1.4 staff assaults per 100 inmates - state
0.9 staff assaults per 100 inmates - federal
A Correctional Officer will be seriously assaulted at least twice in a
20 year career

Sources:
-Corrections Yearbook 2000, 2002 Criminal Justice Institute, Middletown
CT
-US Government Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 31st Edition,
US Department

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