By Alex Tomlin
KQRE.com
SANTA FE, N.M. — The downturn in the national economy created an upturn in job applicants at the state Department of Corrections which normally struggles to fill its openings.
The department which normally struggles to fill job openings now has dozens of applications.
There are 81 job openings at the state penitentiary in Santa Fe, which is not unusual. What is unusual is the dozens of hopeful jobseekers lining up for positions they may not have a few years ago.
It’s a hard knock life. Tia Bland, with the Dept. of Corrections says,“We have a level-two inmate, which is sort of a minimum-security inmate, and we also have maximum-security inmates.” Tia Bland of the Corrections Department said.
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