Introducing Community Corrections Officers! 

             Community Corrections Officers work for the Department of Corrections at the state level, and are officers of the courts. This means that a Community Corrections Officer primary duty is to serve the verdict by the judge. When an offender comes of of jail for release the offender has 24 hours to check in with thier probation officer, and must sign a contract of rules and laws the offenders are aware of their probation proceedings. Community Corrections Officers wear several different hats in the criminal justice and social work fields for the Department of Corrections. The officers take o many roles while guiding and completing each offender probationary period after jail time. Specifiaclly, the probation officer takes on the roles of finding the individual a job, counselor for school options, treatment organizer, law enforcement, inverstigators, and social workers. 

This is an introduction to the Department of Corrections website on what Community Corrections Officers perform. 

http://www.doc.wa.gov/aboutdoc/communitycorrections.asp