Pros
It is regular and a type of employment that can be counted on.The job does have benefits, insurance, retirement pension plan and so on.For the most part , there are knowledgeable staff that will assist new employees in the transition from being a civilian, to being a corrections professional.The facility provides training to all new employees which consists of three weeks of basic academy in a classroom setting with one week for firearms training, for a total of four weeks.There is also OJT (on job training) where new employees will have the opportunity to work hands on with a veteran staff member before being thrown to the wolves, so to speak.
Cons
To put it mildly, the job provides an array of stressful situations for an employee.New staff members aren't used to dealing with the situations they are confronted with so since often times there are so many new staff on the front lines dealing with the inmates of whom they have no experience in dealing with, bad judgment leads to the making of wrong decisions, whether they be too aggressive, not aggressive enough but ultimately not being handled in a manner with which they should have been. And this is not to blame the new employee, because they are often times, the majority of times, being taught to deal with these situations by staff who have no experience in dealing with said situations themselves.