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Should juvenile correction officers carry handcuffs, and oc while on duty ? In some states correction officers have no defense other than officer presence in some cases it is not many officers... full thread

This is the first of a series of ethical situations I will be writing about that correctional professionals must deal with on a daily basis. An officer catches inmate Smith, in the dormitory, stealing property from inmate Jones while everyone else was on the compound. Inmate Smith begs and pleads with the officer that this is his first time doing this and his prison term ends in just two weeks. Inmate Smith puts the property back and asks the officer to let him go. The officer lets his sympathetic feelings take over and he fails to use ethics in this situation... .. full story

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