Corrections Officer - Lower Peninsula

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• Alger Correctional Facility (LMF) - N 6141 Industrial Park Dr.
  
  - Munising, MI 49862
• Baraga Correctional Facility (AMF) - 13924 Wadaga Road - Baraga, MI 49908
• Carson City Correctional Facility (DRF) - 10274 Boyer Rd.
  
  - Carson City, MI 48811
• Central Michigan Correctional Facility (STF) - 320 N. Hubbard
  - St. Louis, MI 48880
• Chippewa Correctional Facility (URF) - 4269 W. M-80 - Kincheloe, MI 49784
• Earnest
  
  C. Brooks Correctional Facility (LRF) - 2500 S. Sheridan Drive
  - Muskegon Hts, MI 49444
• Kinross Correctional Facility (KCF) - 4533 W. Industrial Park Dr.
  
  - Kincheloe, MI 49788
• Marquette Branch Prison (MBP) - 1960 U.S. Hwy 41 South
  - Marquette, MI 49855
• Muskegon Correctional Facility (MCF) - Muskegon, MI 49442
• Newberry Correctional Facility (NCF) - 13747
  
  E. County Road 428 - Newberry, MI 49868
• Oaks Correctional Facility (ECF) - 1500 Caberfae Highway
  - Manistee, MI 49660
• Saginaw Correctional Facility (SRF) - 9625 Pierce Road
  - Freeland, MI 48623
• St. Louis Correctional Facility (SLF) - 8585 N. Croswell Road
  - St. Louis, MI 48880
• Gus Harrison Correctional Facility (ARF) - 2727 East Beecher St. Adrian, MI 49221
• Lakeland Correctional Facility(LCF) - 141 First St. Coldwater, MI 49036
• Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility (IBC) - 1727 West Bluewater Highway Ionia, MI 48846
• Ionia Correctional Facility(ICF) - 1576 W. Bluewater Highway Ionia, MI 48846
• Charles Egeler Correctional Facility (RGC) - 3855 Cooper St. Jackson, MI
• Cooper Street Correctional Facility (JCS) - 3100 Cooper St. Jackson, MI 49201
• Parnall Correctional Facility (SMT) - 1780 East Parnall Rd. Jackson, MI 49201
• G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility (JCF) - 3500 N. Elm Road Jackson, MI 49201
• Thumb Correctional Facility (TCF) - 3225 John Conley Drive Lapeer, MI 48446
• Macomb Correctional Facility (MRF) - 34625 26 Mile Rd. Lenox Township, MI 48048
• Woodland Center Correctional Facility (WCC) - 9036
  
  E. M-36 Whitmore Lake, MI 48189
• Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV) - 3201 Bemis Road Ypsilanti, MI

Begin your career here! Start as a Corrections Officer or even a Corrections Medical Officer which is just the first step. To see where this decision can take you, follow the MDOC Career Path link to see additional employment and promotional opportunities.

These are entry-level positions. Employees in this job oversee and participate in the custody, security, and treatment of prisoners in correctional facilities.

Completion of 15 semester (23 term) college credits in any field.

Military Veterans:
The MDOC accepts Joint Services Transcripts(JST). Please call  or  for assistance with your JST's. A DD214 is not a Joint Service Transcript.

Corrections Officer 8 OR Correction Medical Officer 8

No specific type or amount is required.

Corrections Officer 8

Two years of full-time corrections officer experience in another local, state, federal or private correctional institution, and currently employed satisfactorily in a corrections officer position, or have left corrections officer employment in satisfactory status.

OR

Successful completion of basic training in the uniformed services.

• Education Waiver
  - Employees in possession of less than 15 semester (23 term) college credits may be eligible for participation in the Education Waiver Program, in which employees are allowed up to 24 months from the date of hire to obtain college credits necessary to satisfy the education requirement. Successful completion of the education requirement, in addition to meeting the experience requirement, is mandatory for an employee to be considered eligible for reclassification to the Corrections Officer E9.
  
  Completion of the education requirement prior to expiration of the 24-month waiver period is required to remain employed as a Corrections Officer.

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