You want to know (1) the duties of the counselors, correctional training officers, and secretaries at the MacDougall Correctional facility, (2) if training officers earn overtime when no trainees are on a particular shift, and (3) whether each secretary's position is staffed around the clock. The information in this report was provided by Major Scott Semple, legislative liaison for the Department of Correction.

Counselors at the MacDougall Correctional Facility perform a range of casework and counseling functions. Among other things, they coordinate offender rehabilitation programs at the facility; provide drug counseling; prepare reports for classification committees and other groups evaluating offender progress; and supervise special counseling programs, such as work release, pre-release, and vocational release. Two counselors (or counselor trainees or correctional treatment officers) are assigned to each of five units at the facility. Each of these units has approximately 95 inmates. One counselor is assigned to a sixth smaller unit, which houses inmates with disciplinary problems.

There are no correctional training officers stationed at the MacDougall Correctional facility. Five such officers work at the Maloney Center for Training and Staff Development and are responsible for training correctional officers and other correctional employees statewide, not just those at the MacDougall facility. Specifically, they plan, coordinate, and conduct orientation, refresher, and in-service training courses in correctional practices; help assess training needs; develop course objectives, curricula, course outlines, and lesson plans to meet specific training needs; conduct examinations and evaluate student performance and program effectiveness; help prepare grant applications; and supervise correctional staff and correction officer trainees assigned to the center for basic instruction. Training officers do not earn overtime.

The secretaries do typical secretarial work. They type, file, write reports, answer telephones, greet and direct visitors, compose routine letters, and route mail. One secretary is assigned to each unit, usually on a 9: 00 am. to 5: 00 pm. shift, Monday through Friday.

Complete job descriptions for all three job positions are attached.

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