Escort prisoners to and from courthouse and maintain custody of prisoners during court proceedings.

“Escort prisoners to and from courthouse and maintain custody of prisoners during court proceedings.” is a core task performed by Bailiffs. Among the occupation's 15 rated tasks, workers place it 14th by importance (#2 most important). About 78% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Escort others. in Performing General Physical Activities

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Screen persons entering courthouse using magnetometers, x-ray machines, and other devices to collect and retain unauthorized firearms and other contraband. · importance 4.7
• Maintain order in courtroom during trial and guard jury from outside contact. · importance 4.5
• Provide security by patrolling interior and exterior of courthouse and escorting judges and other court employees. · importance 4.4
• Guard lodging of sequestered jury. · importance 4.4
• Enforce courtroom rules of behavior and warn persons not to smoke or disturb court procedure. · importance 4.4
• Arrest persons in court when arrest warrants have been issued. · importance 4.3
• Report need for police or medical assistance to sheriff's office. · importance 4.2
• Maintain court docket. · importance 4.1
• Check courtroom for security and cleanliness and assure availability of sundry supplies, such as notepads, for use by judge, jurors, and attorneys. · importance 4.1
• Stop people from entering courtroom while judge charges jury. · importance 4.0
• Screen, control, and handle evidence and exhibits during court proceedings. · importance 4.0
• Provide assistance to the public, such as directions to court offices. · importance 4.0
• Announce entrance of judge. · importance 3.9
• Provide jury escort to restaurant and other areas outside of courtroom to prevent jury contact with public. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the Bailiffs page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-20127,
  title  = {Escort prisoners to and from courthouse and maintain custody of prisoners during court proceedings.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-20127}
}