Nicole Lincoln

Experience

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  Maine Correctional Center

  Mar 2012 - Aug 2016

  Corrections Officer

  Oversee inmates in designated areas and constantly supervise them, looking for unusual behavior, rule infractions, and suspicious activity. Maintaining order and security is paramount, and officers must ensure inmate safety. Routinely inspect inmates and visitors for possession of hazardous materials, search inmate cells for prohibited objects, and conduct frequent head counts to account for each prisoner.Controls the movement of inmates and maintains jail logs and records, including inmate rosters and housing assignment boards. It is expected to take on tasks such as booking and fingerprinting new inmates, in addition to reporting information such as damage to jail property or any inmate problems that arise during your shift. It is also expected to make regular spoken and written reports on general prisoner behavior as well as work performance.Duties and responsibilities also include searching visitors and inmates who are entering the jail. Other day-to-day job duties may include patrolling the prison's parameters, checking door locks, supervising inmate recreational activities, and verbally enforcing rules. During an assigned shift, it is also expected to administer physical security checks and supervise inmates' visits. Safety must be upheld at all times, and responding to emergency situations and defusing them as quickly as possible is pertinent to maintaining order and control throughout the facility. The physical capability to defend ones self in the event of violent acts or emergencies is necessary. Show less

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  Somerset county jail

  Aug 2016 - now

  Correctional Officer

  Oversee inmates in designated areas and constantly supervise them, looking for unusual behavior, rule infractions, and suspicious activity. Maintaining order and security is paramount, and officers must ensure inmate safety. Routinely inspect inmates and visitors for possession of hazardous materials, search inmate cells for prohibited objects, and conduct frequent head counts to account for each prisoner.Controls the movement of inmates and maintains jail logs and records, including inmate rosters and housing assignment boards. It is expected to take on tasks such as booking and fingerprinting new inmates, in addition to reporting information such as damage to jail property or any inmate problems that arise during your shift. It is also expected to make regular spoken and written reports on general prisoner behavior as well as work performance.Duties and responsibilities also include searching visitors and inmates who are entering the jail. Other day-to-day job duties may include patrolling the prison's parameters, checking door locks, supervising inmate recreational activities, and verbally enforcing rules. During an assigned shift, it is also expected to administer physical security checks and supervise inmates' visits. Safety must be upheld at all times, and responding to emergency situations and defusing them as quickly as possible is pertinent to maintaining order and control throughout the facility. The physical capability to defend ones self in the event of violent acts or emergencies is necessary. Show less