Multimedia and Web Resources

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Video

Corrections Officer / Jailer Job Overview
These videos, created by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development for their One-Stop Career System Multimedia Career Video Library, are designed to provide a brief, visual introduction to careers and to supplement more detailed sources of career information.

Inside the NYC Corrections Academy
The Daily News goes behind the scenes to see what kind of training corrections officers receive at the NYC Corrections Academy.

The Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment, a dramatic simulation study of the psychology of imprisonment and one of the best known psychology experiments ever undertaken.Dr. Zimbardo takes us through the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which healthy college students are transformed into unstable prisoners and brutal prison guards within days by the power of the situation in which they found themselves.

Audio

Correctional Officers Protest Inmate Work Cuts
Federal correctional officers are gathering outside the Justice Department on Wednesday to protest budget cuts and cutbacks to the federal inmate work program. The officers say it's the only program they have left to keep inmates out of trouble.

Web Resource

  • Career as a Correctional Officer