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New COs will start off earning $25 an hour this year, and up to $26.50 per hour by 2025, per the terms of a new bargaining agreement with Cuyahoga County
Part of California Men’s Colony state prison will close due to declining inmate populations
It won’t be easy to restore confidence or extend change across the Department of Corrections
The National Alliance on Mental Illness agrees jails have become the de facto largest mental-health institutions
The female employee’s husband was hired shortly after the sexual contact started
The six bills, four of which were amended before being endorsed, were the product of a 10-month effort
Daniel Pigg was accused of absconding from probation
Without proper amount of staff, corrections solely becomes reactionary
This unit brings with it new challenges, personnel, opportunities and old habits
The administration credits him with helping fashion the Public Safety Act of 2016
Correction Officers have ¾’s disability pensions available to them if they become permanently disabled
Without officers our system would quickly dissolve, as any deterrent to abhorrent acts would simply not exist
The brothers were plotting to kill U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix
SCDC will have four years to implement the remedial guidelines
The request is limited to death row inmates who are plaintiffs in the litigation
The inmate threw a ‘piece of fecal matter’ at a CO in 2014, hitting him in the neck
The Queens training facility has only 12 windowless rooms that fit just 20 students and a mat space in the basement gym
Social learning theory is comprised of four main parts — differential association, differential reinforcement/punishment, definitions, and imitation
Without tools like segregation and security housing units, we will end up spawning situations where inmates may be forced to take matters into their own hands and staff may have to resort to using increasingly higher degrees of force
DOC actively tries to recruit new corrections officers and receives 30 to 40 applications a month
The inmate said he wanted to ‘become a mujahedeen’
The lawsuit alleges jail officials failed to provide inmate with adequate mental health services
In the rest, inmates served more time than they should have
Are you prepared for court? Do you know what to expect from the defense attorney?
With so many issues facing corrections, sometimes we don’t know where to stand
The judge suggested a $1M price tag for that, but the real cost could be much lower
Four of the COs still remain suspended after the incident
Corrections has evolved and with that evolution comes our personal growth and development
Eight inmates are suing to stop their executions
The court was being asked for the first time to extend the right to a speedy trial that is part of the Sixth Amendment
ASPIRE compares potential candidates against characteristics most often identified with effective leadership.
There is only one way to truly know what others think of your leadership practices — ask them!
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