Work-Life Balance, Mandatory Overtime How Can I Manage Mandatory Overtime and a Healthy Work-Life Balance? When understaffed jails and prisons enforce mandatory overtime, it’s easy for staff to start...
Work-Life Balance, Mental Health How Can I Manage Mandatory Overtime and a Healthy Work-Life Balance? Without intentionally working towards a healthy work-life balance, correctional staff can begin to...
Stress Management, Mental Health How to Address the Fight-or-Flight Moment Corrections professionals have their “fight-or-flight” response mechanism triggered every day. How...
Mental Health, Correctional Staff Wellness Mitigating Mental Burnout: Self-Care Strategies for Correctional Officers Employee burnout is inevitable without proactive actions, especially in highly demanding roles. A...
Mental Health We Suffer in Silence The stresses of a CO and the demons that haunt them are very real. And many COs suffer in silence....
Mental Health, Inmate Suicide Prevention Preventing Inmate Suicide Suicide is a heavy topic; even the toughest inmates are affected by suicidal ideation. Where does...
Mental Health, Stress Management Corrections Stresses & Mental Health Messes The mental health crisis within the corrections industry is at an all-time high and this problem...
Stress Management, Mental Health How to Address the Fight-or-Flight Moment Corrections professionals have their “fight-or-flight” response mechanism triggered every day. How...
Policy and Procedure, Mental Health The Top 5 Tips New Correctional Officers Need to Know Have you wondered what it’s like being a correctional officer? Or what you should expect as a CO?...
Mental Health, Stress Management More Than Just a Jailer Written by Clair R. Swain, Training Sergeant at Lewis and Clark County Detention Center Montana...