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Michigan Department of Corrections
Corrections Officer
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What they do
A Correctional Officer, Detention Officer, or Jailer supervises people being held in correctional facilities, including those awaiting trial, in detention, and inmates who are serving sentences. Maintains order and security within a jail or prison, conducts inspections and searches, enforces regulations, and supervises activities and visits.
$56,185 / year median in Michigan
+5% projected growth
Job Description
BELOW is a list of all the correctional facilities that you can apply for by applying to this job posting: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/michigan/jobs/5411516/corrections-officer-lower-peninsula https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/michigan/jobs/5411521/corrections-officer-upper-peninsula Alger Correctional Facility (LMF)
- Munising, MI 49862Baraga Correctional Facility (AMF)
- Baraga, MI 49908Carson City Correctional Facility (DRF)
- Carson City, MI 48811Central Michigan Correctional Facility (STF)
- St. Louis, MI 48880Chippewa Correctional Facility (URF)
- Kincheloe, MI 49784Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility (LRF)
- Muskegon Hts, MI 49444Kinross Correctional Facility (KCF)
- Kincheloe, MI 49788Marquette Branch Prison (MBP)
- Marquette, MI 49855Muskegon Correctional Facility (MCF)
- Muskegon, MI 49442Newberry Correctional Facility (NCF)
- Newberry, MI 49868Oaks Correctional Facility (ECF)
- Manistee, MI 49660Saginaw Correctional Facility (SRF)
- Freeland, MI 48623St. Louis Correctional Facility (SLF)
- St. Louis, MI 48880 Gus Harrison Correctional Facility (ARF)
- Adrian, MI 49221Lakeland Correctional Facility(LCF)
- Coldwater, MI 49036Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility (IBC)
- Ionia, MI 48846Ionia Correctional Facility(ICF)
- Ionia, MI 48846Charles Egeler Correctional Facility (RGC)
- Jackson, MI 49201-7547 Cooper Street Correctional Facility (JCS)
- Jackson, MI 49201Parnall Correctional Facility (SMT)
- Jackson, MI 49201 G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility (JCF)
- Jackson, MI 49201 Thumb Correctional Facility (TCF)
- Lapeer, MI 48446Macomb Correctional Facility (MRF)
- Lenox Township, MI 48048 Woodland Center Correctional Facility (WCC)
- Whitmore Lake, MI 48189Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV)
- Ypsilanti, MI 48197-0911 Corrections Officer positions are at various locations throughout the state, Corrections Medical Officers are located exclusively at Woodland Center Correctional Facility.
NOTE:
These positions are considered test designated and are subject to all forms of drug and alcohol testing. Required Education and Experience Education Completion of 15 semester (23 term) college credits in any field.Military Veterans:
The MDOC accepts Joint Services Transcripts(JST). Please call 517-335-1863 or 517-241-8559 for assistance with your JST's. A DD214 is not a Joint Service Transcript. Experience Corrections Officer 8 OR Correction Medical Officer 8 No specific type or amount is required. Alternate Education and Experience Corrections Officer 8 Two years of full-time corrections officer experience in another local, state, federal or private correctional institution, and currently employed satisfactorily in a corrections officer position, or have left corrections officer employment in satisfactory status. OR Successful completion of basic training in the uniformed services.- Education Waiver
- Employees in possession of less than 15 semester (23 term) college credits may be eligible for participation in the Education Waiver Program, in which employees are allowed up to 24 months from the date of hire to obtain college credits necessary to satisfy the education requirement.