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No lunch breaks?

cat_daddy: We don’t have designated breaks of any kind. If we get any type of break we are lucky.
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By Joe Bouchard
In corrections we do not always understand our colleagues’ perspectives. We may ask ourselves a series of questions: Are we well understood by others? Do we understand ourselves? Why don’t professionals in the same vocational niche operate uniformly to our personal standards? Why do corrections professionals, seemingly performing the same tasks, have different working relationships with their administrations?
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Detention Center Administrator – Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office – North Carolina

The Detention Center Administrator is responsible for the daily operation, management, direction, and leadership of the Detention Services Bureau of the sheriff’s office, under the general direction of the Sheriff. Work includes the development, establishment, and implementation of an organizational structure, operating budget, goals and initiatives, and work procedures and practices; and the training, management, and supervision of all division personnel through delegation of authority to subordinate management staff.

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