Background: Public safety workers (PSWs), including correctional officers (COs), law
enforcement, firefighters, emergency medical service, and military personnel, are at risk of …

The aim of this review was to explore qualitative accounts of law enforcement (LE) officers'
personal experiences of mental health, in terms of linguistic descriptions, relationships …

Research on correctional officers (COs) has expanded over the past two decades, giving us
a broad picture of the mental health, culture, and discretionary practices of a traditionally …

Suicide rates vary across occupational groups, with protective service occupations at
elevated risk for suicide. Yet, research on correctional officer suicide remains sparse, as …

Correction officers work in an occupational context where they are often exposed to
violence; however, prior research assessing the relationship between violence exposure …

Correctional officers (COs) work in a unique climate of continual carceral care, balancing
interpersonal relationships, prison dynamics, with organizational and occupational duties …

Prior research has identified the importance of social climate in psychiatric and correctional
facilities. In studies of corrections officer (CO) stress, organizational measures are typically …

For prisons and jails to run effectively and efficiently, correctional officers need to follow
institutional policies and rules. Failure to follow the rules could lead to deviant acts of officer …

Researchers often use institutionalization to explain the psychological impact of
imprisonment on incarcerated people, but little is known about how institutionalization …

Objective Seeking mental health services can be challenging for first responders due to
various barriers that impede access to care. The objective of this study was to gain a deeper …