Job security is for sure. You will work various shifts some times long hours. You may walk the yard with some of the most demented human beings alive, maybe maximum, medimum or just minimum security inmates. You can be assigned to all most any post and any shift, having weekends or holidays off is far and few between. You might be a officer working as a dispatcher, visitation officer, work crew supervisor, mailman, tower officer, transportation unit, chain gang, medical, yard officer, or work in a control room, and duties far to many to list.
Correctional officers have many jobs to preform and many hats to wear.
You will face felons daily. You will enter into a place that is in a world of its own, drugs, gangs, assults, crime, exc. If you are a leader, a manager of people, possess inter-personal skills, and think you have what it takes, then check out corrections. Serve your state, city or county as a corrections professional. Clear as a bell.