Dear Feisty,
In the corrections jobs I hace applied for I found the security clearance procedure to be both daunting and highly invasive. I am not applying to be a prison guard who will be spending time 8 hours a day interacting with,disciplining and and controling the lives of inmates. I don't plan or expect to ever be alone with a prisoner. I have never been arrested or associated knowingly with criminals. I can understand wanting to check into our past as related to any criminal records or known criminal associations, and to ascertain if we have ever lost jobs for reasons such as drug addiction, alcoholism or suspected theft or violent behavior etc. The thing is, we all have skeletons in our closets (at least I do) and I don't want to give somebody carte blanche to look into any and all of my closets.What I know happens in some cases though is that the prison uses the same application for it's nurses as it does for it's deputies, at least that's what happened to me. At the end of one application there was mention of confirming answers on the application with a lie detector test. When I called to question this, I was told that only applied to deputies. I imagine many of the other questions were only appropriate for deputies also.
The bad news is, I don't think things are liable to change. I just have to hope...and assume...that most facilities won't waste their time doing all that background check once they go deep enough to find out that I am a law-abiding, decent person.
ripley
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