&gt; but nobody in the security industry will employ him because they (rightfully so) consider prison guards to be tainted by corruption.<p>Just to elaborate, there are a few factors that go into prison guards having a hard time pursuing other employment:<p>1. Prison guard shifts are often extremely understaffed, which leads to a large amount of buddy-buddy interaction with inmates. &quot;Hey, don&#x27;t cause trouble on my end, and I&#x27;ll turn a blind eye to minor (and sometimes major) shenanigans.&quot; It&#x27;s often necessary for the job; inmates can make a prison guard&#x27;s life hell just by being inmates. It&#x27;s necessary for a prison guard position, but no security company is going to want to hire someone who happily bends the rules for expediency.<p>2. The extremely unpleasant nature of the job means that there are three large categories of people who take corrections jobs: the dregs who couldn&#x27;t get onto a police force, the sadistic fucks who revel in the opportunity to have power over others, and the people who live out in the middle of nowhere who are happy for <i>any</i> employment. The only people whom you&#x27;d want to hire from the prison are the third kind, and they&#x27;re likely to turn you down because they want to stay in Pigknuckle, where there aren&#x27;t any security jobs.<p>This, hilariously, leads to an interesting &quot;apprenticeship&quot; program to try to detract a little from this - some states require all prospective police officers to spend a couple years as COs. This is intended to make it so that not <i>everyone</i> wearing a uniform is a shitbag, as there are going to be a whole bunch of idealistic, intelligent, driven people who are becoming police officers of high-standard districts. The problem, of course, is that a lot of these guys quickly get a draftee mindset. &quot;Yep, it&#x27;s more fucked up than a left-handed football bat here, but I&#x27;m only here for two years.&quot;<p>3. The stress of the job leads to balanced, stable people getting the fuck out, leaving the dysfunctional trainwrecks. Infidelity is rampant, drama is endemic among the staff, etc. No one wants those people.<p>Source: Girlfriend was a corrections nurse for a couple years to get experience, (local hospital had a glut of nurses and wasn&#x27;t hiring) still has a lot of CO friends. They&#x27;re an interesting group of people.<p>By the way, this dynamic hits <i>anywhere</i> that involves dealing with unpleasantness and doesn&#x27;t pay good money. Inner-city teachers and retirement home care staff have the exact same problems.