Talk:Prison officer

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most of the slang names i have heard used but the last 3 (Scooby's* i.e scobby doo = screw Flooby-Hooby and Castrater) I have never heard used during 15 years of working in prisons (i've also been called 5-0 and the po-po both of which can also be applied to the police). also I would like to see the title of this article changed to Correction Officer as that is our official title in the U.S —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vikin (talk • contribs).

I believe this to be a stub article. Someone else deleted the stubs from the article page. This is up for debate here in the talk page. I look forward to hearing your opinions. --JAYMEDINC 04:06, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Prison officer → Correction Officer — The title Prison officers is outdated, all correctional departments in the US use Correctional Officer as the offical title of their officers

[edit] Survey

Add  * '''Support'''  or  * '''Oppose'''  on a new line followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~~~~.

• Oppose. Nowhere in the article does it state that this is about the USA; It happens that we have prison officers in other countries as well. Andrewa 05:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - Whoa. It's quite possible that it's a common term in other areas too. Let's not rush into the immediate anti-Americanism if it doesn't apply. Patstuart^talk|edits 19:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

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In reply to Patstuart above, I'm sorry if you see my comment as anti-American. It's not intended to be anti-American, but it is certainly antiUScentric. The reason for the move is given as The title Prison officers is outdated, all correctional departments in the US use Correctional Officer... with no mention of the rest of the world. Don't you see a problem there? Andrewa 20:00, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

A Google on Prison Officer gives 277,000 hits, the first being the UK Prison Service: In addition to custodial duties, Prison Officers are called upon to build up and maintain close relationships with those in their charge. This is a complex challenge, balancing authority with a large amount of understanding and compassion... which leads me to believe that it's not quite as obsolete a term as some seem to think. Correction Officer gets only 188,000 Ghits despite the US bias of the WWW. Andrewa 23:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

They aren't always called Corrections Officers in the US. Where I live, they are called Detention Officers. However, in your Google search, you will find that if you type Corrections Officer instead of Correction Officer, the search turns up 635,000 results. Maybe we should have a different article for Prison Officer and Corrections officer to reflect the difference. Or, since Google shows nearly three times the results for Corrections Officer, Prison Officer should redirect to it. With an explanation in the article that would make it not USCentric of course. --JAYMEDINC 14:30, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

The proposed move is to Correction Officer, so the Google on Corrections Officer is irrelevant to this particular survey. I suggest that you might vote against this proposed move, and foreshadow a move to Corrections Officer if you feel that is the correct title.

It seems that there are several possible titles: Correctional Officer, Correction Officer, Detention Officer, and even prison warder or just warder. The choice of which to use should not be based purely on Google, which is itself US-biased. Andrewa 09:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)