Duties
Prison officers maintain order and prevent disturbances, assaults, and escapes by supervising activities and work assignments of inmates. Officers routinely search inmates and their living quarters for contraband such as weapons or drugs, settle disputes between inmates, and enforce discipline. Prison officers also inspect the facilities for unsanitary conditions, fire hazards, and any evidence of tampering or damage to locks, bars, grilles, doors, and gates. Officers screen mail and visitors for prohibited items.
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Famous quotes containing the word duties:
“You have begot me, bred me, loved me. I
Return those duties back as are right fit,
Obey you, love you, and most honor you.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a “taxing- machine;” to the contented, a “machine for securing property.” Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life’s duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)