Arizona Department of Corrections Employer Reviews

Typical day is fun if you make it fun, good co-workers, great supervisors, you learn that you never learn enough, every day is a new learning experience, hardest part of the day is working out doors at 90 degrees in the summer or below freezing temperatures in the winter. Most enjoyable part of the day is going home and knowing your co-workers get to – more... go home safe and unharmed. – less

Start early mostly helping those who needed assistance. Look out for individuals health and welfare.

Conduct specialized recreation programming, in a diverse secure care setting, for male and female youth. Coordinate events such as sport tournaments, monthly activities, gender specific programming. Using Behavioral Management techniques and Crisis Management in the recreation setting to ensuring the quality and safety of youth at all times.

Providing – more... daily supervision, in a therapeutic role, in a specialized housing unit. Facilitated behavior management groups, filing records and various legal documents. Maintained security and discipline; within the unit to ensure a safe environment.

Also helped develop Policy and Procedure for athletics at the facility I work for. – less

working with secuity staff was a nice experience. Medical and security worked together to help keep inmates healthy. The system worked well enabling medical to keep Hippa requirements while delivering established medical treatment according to standards, guidelines, and Physican orders. Supervision for both medical and security was readily available. – more... On going education was available and encouraged by supervision. – less

The place where I work is well organized, sometimes it can be a long day with altercations occurring a couple times a week with the inmates. Co-workers always have your back, and will defend you when you're in need. It's a close knit environment and everyone just wants each other to get home safely.

It is demoralizing to work for the Arizona Department of Corrections and surprisingly not because of the inmates but because of the administration. If you are looking to become a sheriff or police officer the experience is helpful.

The daily responsibilities change on a day to day basis. Attending briefing was the easiest part of the day. As Security, there are so many responsibilities. Knowing the importance of the job requires making quick critical decisions that could impact security, the public, and inmates. Working as a Correctional Officer II, there is not a day that goes – more... by, that you do not learn or deal with a situation to learn from. I have met the strongest leaders/supervisors working for the Department. – less

There is never a lack of things to do. I've learned much about organizing processes and delegating duties. Management seems hamstrung by upper management too immersed in political issues to deal with operations. I have excellent co-workers who take great pride in their work. The hardest part of my job is getting upper management to make a decision. – more... The most enjoyable part of my job is knowing that the hard work of my department is appreciated by those in the field. I work very hard to make things easy for those who use the data I produce. – less

feed the inmates was a typical day at work, i learn about legal paperwork and managment, my co workers were really great.

Team oriented enviornment , goal oriented workplace. Sometimes difficult to balance workload with facility needs.Maintaining security of facility/prisoners housed. Always had to maintain professional demeanor with prisoners -- sometimes difficult, especially when they are non-compliant.

co-workers work together as a team, always learning something new, and the most enjoyable part of this job, to me is that ,you know that your job is to keep criminals from hurting people.

A very challenging place to work,which i exceeded in and enjoyed.

a typical day consists of conducting 4 head counts and 4 security checks per shift. answering telephone calls, searches of inmates as well as staff. accountability of assigned offenders.

I had a Great crew coordinator which made me feel like family as well as his wife which was a deputy warden. I felt as if I were leaving a family behind when I left. I had so many people ask what they could do to have me stay from the warden to the major even to my fellow co workers. I would go back if only it were closer to my family here in California.

I was incharge of the day to operations of the largest prison in Arizona, I had staff and inmates that I supervised.

professional coworkers very helpful and willing to share expertise in caring for inmate population; supportive work environment; pay could be better

A serious and responsable work environment in a correctional setting.

A great place to learn, but management is not educated in people skills. The hardest part of my job , was sepnding more time with inmates than family. They actually give a lot of time off.

Day starts at 6am and ends 6pm or 7pm. Work till the days tasks are completed and all fires are out. I learned much about corrections, health care delivery, and clinic management, the legislative process, government budgeting, and contract monitoring.

Co-workers are correction and health care professionals. An outstanding group of people to work with.

Working – more... in a negative environment such as prison is the hardest part of the job. The most enjoyable is the ability to overcome the negative environment and make a difference in the inmate population's physical health and mental health status. – less

Loved everything about this workplace. Advancement was awesome and the management was even more awesome. Very flexible with work schedule and family like structure.