Correctional institution workers are the social workers who are the mental health professional who work in a correctional field.
<u>Explanation:</u>
A correctional social worker who is also known as prison or jail social worker is a mental health professional. He runs programs and makes sure that the jail inmates are ready to return to the society once they are released from the jail and have to go back to normal life.
The correction social worker perform psychological assessments to determine inmates' level of mental health functioning, the evaluation of the mental health of the inmates or the substance abuse disorders, providing group or individual counselling session to the inmates of the prison.
