correctional officer

licensed vocational nurse

registered nurse

transportation officer

licensed practical nurse

LaSalle Corrections

I'll get right into it and these bullet points have been discussed multiple times amongst us non-ranking officers.

•The facility is ran like a dictatorship.

•They are constantly coming up with rules that make the work environment tedious and an absolute nightmare. Atleast twice a week your shift will be told a new rule the assistant warden has implemented during roll call. It's basically a rule they pulled out their a**. I honestly think admin gets off making up these "rules". It's basically to make your life harder during your tenure there. Your shift lieutenant or captain will basically tell you the new rules and let the whole shift know how they aren't doing the job correctly.

•Theres rarely and I mean rarely any time that they have anything positive to mention during pre-shift meetings. It's always negative negative negative. It's hardly anything positive. Which has lowered moral.

•The officers themselves are treated worse than the detainees/inmates. As an officer myself, I can attest to this. The detainees basically run the facility. 

•HERES A BIG ONE. THE OFFICERS ARE HEAVILY SURVEILLED. Ranking officers and administration are constantly watching you. Which I don't mind if a job watches you but they go way too far with it. The amount of time they are watching their officers is unorthodoxed. They will watch you more than the detainees/inmates themselves. Your lucky if you aren't told how many times youve utilized the restroom on a shift. From the things I've witnessed and heard, it's as if they are wanting and waiting for you to mess up. It's as if they trust the detainees more than the officers who are entrusted to run the facility. It's completely backwards.

•The assistant warden is on a power trip.

•The lack of consistency is atrocious. For example one shift lieutenant will have you trained on how to do one said task and get you familiar with said task. Then when you have to work another shift with a different crew, you will be verbally corrected and taught a different way to do the task you were already trained to do. 

•Theres mandatory overtime. Which is ridiculous. They want to know why they are short handed but the thing is, is that they are basically running their officers away by the way they are running the facility.

THE PROS:
 •Scheduling, when your mandatory overtime doesn't screw you over. Long week and short week scheduling. If you've worked corrections. This is the format they use.

•Pay is decent. However I believe they truly think they are the only facility/job that offers that kind of pay. While the work is easy, the way they run the facility AGAIN, basically makes you work for it.

•A lot of officers I work with are good people and make the shift go by quick. 

I will be the first to say a Job in Corrections is not easy... But it is so rewarding working with a team to provide safety and security to my local community and work with law enforcement.  It is tough at times and you have to have a thick-skin at times but at the end of the day you are really just dealing with people and if you can trust your fellow CO's you can have the chance to really help some folks who are n need of a change in there life.  After working with a previous larger Company where we never even met any of the higher-ups and my schedule was changing all the time and no real personal connection I was happy when LaSalle Corrections took over! Since LaSalle took over I have already met with the CEO and see The top Wardens regularly... and they seem to care about my thoughts on improving the facility.  The pay could be better but the benefits are good and you can easily earn more with opportunities for overtime and you get  a good amount of paid vacation days after your first year (16mo) of work (but you do have to schedule in advance). I have had 2 really good supervisors so my experience may be better than some others but I will say this place is not for Lazy folks who want to punch a clock and do nothing those types get run out pretty quick because in this line a work you have to be able to count on your fellow officers and so its the lazy ones that leave bad reviews because they got run-off.  I like my job and the respect I get from others in my town who say thank you when they see me in uniform

What is the best part of working at the company?
I found good interaction with my coworkers and management. There were good moments of coworker interactions but too often things tended toward division.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The work and industry can be hard and is not for everyone but the tensions between shifts or with management often became more stressful and was almost always unnecessary.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Professionalism and managerial support were not attended to enough to keep appropriate openness between workers or a sense of care and understanding from management to keep workings environment comfortable and consistent.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Started for most workers with a briefing of past shifts and concerns for the coming shift. From this much of the work was isolating with long hours in what could be very tense and required a lot of attention to detail. Breaks, meal time and limited interaction with other employees could be the glue that makes the environment fulfilling or what create tension and division.

day starts at 6am till 6pm, pull medications then run the pill cart from 7 until completed for the am med administrations for the inmates and detainees, between 12 and 3 we did new intakes meaning we did the initial assessments and paperwork and putting the charts together for new inmates/detainees coming into the facility. At 3:15 we leave to run the diabetic pill call and it generally ran until 5:30 or so. After that we counted sharps closet, narcs ordered medications that were needed and took care of any other things that needed to be finished. My coworkers were a pleasure to work with. The hardest part of the job is making sure everyone has all their medication, primarily because the inmates and detainees that were at the facility came and went so quickly nothing is very constant, things changed from day to day. One day you could be giving meds to 40-80 imates and the next you could be giving it to 100 or more, the most enjoyable part of the job was running the pill call. I learned alot about what different medications were and how to give them. Management was ok.

They do not appreciate an officer actually doing their job, you are more of the inmate as an officer because rank sides with inmates. If you write cases doing your job they are most likely thrown out and inmates and laugh at you for it. Too many favorites and if they abandon their posts: nothing is done. Certain officers abandon their position and go to admin Lt's office to eat lunch while you're lucky if you get a break. Rules change depending on who you are. If you abandon your post then admin Lt is calling you to the office cause they zone in on 'certain chosen victims for their wrath of evil" but others (favorites) do it all the time. Favorite officers still working there have fell asleep in pickets in control chairs and admin Lt overlooks it/does nothing. Once the Admin Lt zones into you then they harass you and it's over looked by higher management Harassment is allowed. Work schedule and hours change at last minute all the time 3 on and 2 off, 6 on and 2 off, and up to 7 days a week. You mean nothing to them so beware. They don't even admit to officers that covid19 is currently there.

Good people but poor management. Most of the officers are not trained some have no certification to work a Jail making it difficult to learn; too many liability concerns that may lead to future issues. Officers get training for a few weeks with a trainer or another worker and then you are thrown on a shift with a person who doesn't know their job and have just as much experience as you. The  Lieutenants and Sergeants  micromanage and have a nasty attitudes. No leaders and some have no correctional experience. The shifts can't keep a ranking officer or officers.The facility does not have the proper equipment to complete work task properly; cramped work spaces. Some positive aspects you get to work with some good people some Sergeants are good and have good work ethics, the schedule is great with every other weekend off;  good experience for those who are interested in starting a career as a correction officer/ police officer to build communication skills or people skills and learn some lawful policies. If you worked in corrections before it's not to bad but if you are new and just starting out it can be very stressful.

The job itself is not hard to manage when the place is fully staffed. The problem is that is never the case. This results in lots of mandatory overtime, being held over shift for multiple hours at a time, and more people calling in which makes the previous problems cyclical. Bad employees understand that since the place is so short staffed, they are in no danger of losing their job because if they were to do so, the prison would be over their required ratios. Needless to say the turnover rate is higher here than any other place I've worked. 

The pay scale is decent for the area but the benefits are very expensive. The company has a 401K but you have to serve for many years to get anywhere close to 50% matching. The insurance rates for a multi person family eat so far into your check that you will find yourself questioning if you are getting paid the right amount. 

If it weren't for the unavailability for well paying jobs in the area, the place would never be able to keep any of its workers. The only reason this place is not a 1 star in my opinion is the fact that you do not have any other options in this are. Sign on knowing you are going to be miserable but paid decently.  



The Lt and Sgts stay in there office. Refuse to come out besides when they have to do their mandatory walk arounds. You're constantly threatened with write ups for small things that they turn around and will do themselves. You only get a 15 minute break for your 12 hour shift, and that's IF you constantly ask for your break over the radio. Most days you won't even get a break. The rank refuses to help officers out. They treat the inmates better than the officers working there. You have to ask for bathroom breaks, and CAN and WILL get a write up if you go to the bathroom without your supervisors permission. The turn out rate for this place is horrible. The inmates are the least of your problems majority of the time. You not only have to work your station but another station because the place is SO short handed because nobody wants to stay at a place where you're treated like a dog by your supervisors. They had new boots training new boots because nobody stays long enough out there.

Let's get the good out of the way, some coworkers are good people. Aside from that you can work all the overtime you like. Now that that's over with, the unit itself is not run by the CO's and the rank plays favorites with whom they assign certain positions. Everyone claims to have your back but only the Major put it's an effort to show he's one your side. I was hired even after informing them I am my wifes caretaker. She suffers from seizures and was told she could contact me whenever she needed too incase of an emergency. When that happened, she called the unit 7 times to no answer. I rushed home as she called me and informed she had a breakthrough seizure. I informed my supervisor I would be out taking care of my wife and child while she recovers only to be fired, despite following policy and the unit, supervisors, and HR being informed I was her primary caretaker. If you have no dependents or other urgent people/things you need to handle this job is for you just be warned that unlike they claim not many have your back.

Started the job when I was 19. I was thinking about getting into law enforcement, but not after this experience. I’m had no problem dealing with inmates or doing my duties, that’s not what drove me away. It was the “politics” of the jail. Management plays favorites. You have to be on your knees a lot to get somewhere. They run off all of their good employees. The ones on their knees are the laziest one yet they get kept around. The inmates ran the jail. You got told different rules by three different management levels of the jail. If inmates gave any resistance, management would easily give In to them. Making our job as officers enforcing rules, a lot harder. If you looked at an inmate wrong you could get wrote up but if the slapped you, the get of scotch free. The same management doing this got fired for having relationships with inmates, go figure. The new management was no better. Let’s just say I knew an important figure in the county and they were out to get me. I truly hope all jails are not ran like this one. 

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