Correctional Officer Hats

Correctional officers and jailers held about 406,500 jobs in the United States in 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the work has its own folklore. The best known joke is the officer's own: in a Radio Diaries episode on prison guards, one said that pretty much every guard serves time too, in eight-hour shifts. Retirement is the day the sentence ends. These correctional officer hats start from that joke. DOING LIFE IN 8 HOUR SHIFTS and FINALLY PAROLED tell it from both ends of a career, and both get a second colorway. MANDATORY OVERTIME IS MY HOBBY comes from the reporting that forced overtime is a top reason officers quit, with some working an extra 24 hours a week. NO TIME OFF FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR and I WORK WITH 1,200 INNOCENT MEN round out the dry ones. THIN SILVER LINE is the trade's own flag: Rothco already sells a thin silver line cap, and thin silver line tees and patches circulate. Two plain badges, CORRECTIONAL OFFICER and CORRECTIONS OFFICER, cover the two ways the job title gets typed. National Correctional Officers and Employees Week, created by Reagan Proclamation 5187 in 1984, falls in early May, and retirement parties happen all year. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, for the officer or the family that wants one.