Vocabulary in the correctional officer environment
21 correctional officer terms
A list of 21 unkowns terms in the environment of an correctional officer.
Cellmates
Noun
This is when you have two inmates in the same cell.
Example: Jacques got a new cellmate called Eric with who he shares the cell right now.
fr: Co-détenu
Contraband
Noun
This is the traffic of merchandise like drugs who enter illegaly in prison.
Example: An correctional officer had enter contraband into the prison for the inmates.
fr: Contrebande
Crisis
Noun
When someone is really mad and lose his mind by doing things that normaly he will never do.
Example: An correctional officer has remark an inmate was in crisis after the inmate was yelling and started smashing his head on the wall.
fr: Une crise
Cursory search
Noun
This is when you have the rights to seek on the person by touching his clothes if he has not something dangerous or illegaly on him.
Example: An correctional officer has the right to do a cursory search on an inmate after this one exit the training room to check if the inmate has nothing illegaly on him.
fr: Fouille sommaire
Detention facility
Noun
This is a place full of brick wall and fence outside where offenders going for a while by purging an imprisonment penalty.
Example: The detention facility is for offenders who commits a crime and will purge his sentence.
fr: Établissement de détention
Disciplinary action
Noun
This is a paper that we writing every misconduct done by inmates who didn't respect rules in prison and they will lost somes rights for a moment.
Example: An correctional officer saw an inmate destroying training room materials and he was warned that he will got a disciplinary action for not respecting the rules about breaking materials.
fr: Mesure disciplinaire
Filing of complaint
Noun
This is when the pleading that starts a case because the person who made the complaint got a reason to believe that the action or the cause was against the laws.
Example: An inmate did a filing of complaints because he thinks the correctionnal officer abused of him.
fr: Dépôt de plainte
First aid
Noun
This is someone who rescue people who have some health problems.
Example: An correctional officer can be a first aid when he saw an inmate try to hang himself by trying to dehang him and to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the same time than another corectional officer call the emergency.
fr: Secourisme
Flat-time
Noun used in correctional system
This is when a sentence with his duration is determinated for someone who commit a crime.
Example: The judge has a flat-time for the offender who will got a sentence of two years and less one day for stealing in store.
fr: Temps déterminé
Gate tuned
Noun
An electronic door that is controlled by someone at distance that made a sound when you push the handle and it open.
Example: In the principal place in prison, there is a gate tuned who is fully security and you have to push the handle for the door open.
fr: Porte syntonisée
Lack of ethics
Noun
It's when someone in his profession do something bad like a misconduct and will got consequence.
Example: An correctional officer did a lack of ethics when he punched an inmate.
fr: Manque d'éthique
Lethal force
Noun
This is when someone in his profession using force to other person that cause death.
Example: The lethal force is used by somes correctional officer when they exerce an overpower force against an inmate in a way that they will kill him.
fr: Force mortelle
Logbooks
Noun
It's a notebook that you write a statement of the principal events of your shift in the day like inmates bad behaviour.
Example: The correctional officer writed after the incident, in the logbook, the event in which the inmate hit his head repeatedly against the wall in his cell.
fr: Journal de bord
Medical diet
Noun
This is when someone eat specific food because of medical problem.
Example: An inmate can have medical diet so he will eat specific food because of allergy or other health problems.
fr: Régime médical
Neglect
Noun
Someone who made a default in the execution of a task, in a bad way and he doesn't care or doing abuse on someone.
Example: An correctional officer did neglect for not giving a medicate to an inmate.
fr: Négligence
Obedience
Noun
It's the respect of order or of a request towards to the autority.
Example: The inmates should obedience to the correctional officer.
fr: Obéissance
Person assessment
Noun
This is when you ask someone question for evaluating different things of him.
Example: Correctional officer do person assessment to determinate inmates level security.
fr: Évaluation de la personne
Prison yard
Noun
This is a place located outside the prison, but not in the society and it's where inmates has right to go for a certain time everyday.
Example: The correctional officer saw inmates play badminton togheter in prison yard.
fr: Cour extérieure
Remand
noun
This is a exceptional measure in detention for an accused aimed at imprisonning him until the end of the trial even if his guilt has not yet been established.
Example: Steven is in remand because he is waiting for his judgement for the crime he commits.
fr: Détention provisoire
Substance addiction
Noun
It's when someone cant stop consum drugs or alcohol and have an effect on his health and his social environment.
Example: Somes inmates got substance addiction in the past by stealing money to buy drugs because they were addicted to this substance, but now, they can change by participing in substance abuse programs composed of therapies to stop take drugs.
fr: Toxicomanie
Warrants of committal
Noun
This is a legal act written on a paper and given to the director of the detention and with an goal of giving him an order to receive or to keep an inmate in jail or indicted placed and remand.
Example: The director of detention facility received a warrant of commitals about keep it an inmate who is condamn in jail.
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