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Sign-on bonuses of $10,000 for new hires and $25,000 for deputies who join from other jails were OK’d
Colette Peters wants to change hiring practices to find candidates who want to “change hearts and minds”
The guard will assist with perimeter security, entry and exit security and issuing supplies to inmates from secure stations, among other things
Suit says in 2011, Pierre Hardin became aware he was being treated differently than his white co-workers regarding shift assignments and requests for transfers
It takes 160 hours of training per year for one detention center officer
For years, the newest officers have been made to work overtime shifts when no one volunteered for them
One of the officers in the shakedown pointed out the bigger issue of COs smuggling cell phones
The contract includes 13 full paid holidays and two half-days off immediately before Christmas and New Year’s
During the three phase process trainers say they see some cadets blossom into more secure individuals as they go through the program
The ceremony is the culmination of eight weeks of intense classroom, firearms, and hands-on training to prepare these newly hired Officers for their career in corrections
Warden who oversaw a botched execution in 2014 and a second lethal injection this year in which an inmate was given the wrong drugs is retiring
Midland County Sheriff Scott Stephenson is concerned for the safety of his staff and inmates
We all make mistakes, but there are some that everyone makes over and over again
The success is attributed to advertising via billboards and radio ads
Macomb County is planning about 25 layoffs at its juvenile justice center as the number of youth in the detention and residential treatment center has declined
Self-development is a continuous process and you have to be on the edge or outside of your comfort zone in order to grow
Get in early, ask questions and do more reading than you ever expected to
26 employees will be reassigned jobs in other part of the agency, without a reduction in pay
Warden Brian Miller recommended the county increase the number of full-time officers from 43 to 51 to cut back on overtime costs
Corrections officers are part of the united blue family; don’t isolate them
A $4,000 recruiting bonus is available for new correctional officers
Crawford County Prison Board is backing a plan to hire six more full-time corrections officers for the county jail in Saegertown
Policies set the guidelines and expectations of how to function as a correctional officer in any facility
As the corrections profession evolves, there is a need for officers with both formal education and frontline experience
Sometimes, there are other things beside a lack of experience or poor interview skills that could be holding you back
New graduates will join about 1,500 other correctional officers at 17 state-run prison facilities
Maryland Board of Public Works postponed a vote Thursday on a proposal by the Hogan administration to eliminate 63 jobs in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
Positions being cut create a duplication of services
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