Corrections Deputy

Anderson County Sheriff's Office • Full-time • Clinton, Tennessee, United States • from $18.72 / hour • 2w ago

$22.10 after 6 months

The facility can hold a total population of 565 inmates. The facility has 88 full-time Corrections Deputies with three contracted nurses who work a rotating 24-hour on-call schedule. There are three full-time maintenance engineers and two Kitchen Deputies on staff who plan and oversee the preparation of approximately 363,000 meals annually.

There are five (7) housing units which are currently broken down as follows: Unit 7 (new edition 212 beds) is broken into four pods; medical, sex offenders, general population/medium security and lock-down/maximum security. Unit 6 consists of inmate workers (27 beds), Unit 5 is comprised of minimum-security inmates (64 beds), Unit 4 is our main female pod (69 beds), Unit 3 is the female maximum security unit (16 beds +1 special needs cell), Unit 2 is a male lock-down over-flow pod (48 beds), and finally, Unit 1 is male-only workhouse inmates (128 beds). There are also temporary holding cells in the booking section which are used for the processing and release of inmates.

The facility is a direct supervision/indirect supervision facility where the deputies are located in the housing units with inmates and /or constant visual contact supplemented by routine walk-throughs by Deputies 24 hours a day. Each Deputy provides security against escape, inmate on inmate violence, and all other facility policies as well as enforcing state laws. Deputies also provide for the daily requirements of the inmates (meals, commissary, recreation time, etc.).