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LAFAYETTE, Ga. — Hays State Prison is recruiting correctional officers amid a time of change for the facility.
A competitive salary, a benefits package and a 401-k matched by your employer would attract any deserving job candidate. There’s just one thing, these jobs will be located at a state prison that has quickly earned a reputation for violence and death.
“There’s no fear,” says candidate, Noah Burnette who’s up to the task. “I’m 40, I figure I got 25 years left.”
Since December, four inmates were killed and two guards were stabbed prompting the state to make drastic changes in early February, ousting former Warden Clay Tatum.
A couple weeks later cell phone video was posted on Youtube and shows inmates fighting inside the prison.
“A lot of people, when I told them that I was going to do this they said, ‘you really want to go to Hays? You want to work in a jail?’ It’s a job like any other job,” says Burnette.
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