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Tier Talk: Understaffing and officer-to-inmate ratio

Should your safety be sacrificed so your facility can save a buck?

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How safe are you when money overides safety? Should your safety be sacrificed so your facility can save a buck? Listen in as we discuss the issues of understaffing and how does one calculate a ratio of officer to inmate?

On today’s episode of Tier Talk, Anthony Gangi sits down with Gary York and discusses understaffing and inmate to officer ratio.

Gary York is a 27 year veteran of Corrections and a former Military Police Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He is a Retired Florida Senior Prison Inspector who conducted Civil, Criminal and Administrative investigations throughout the many prisons in Florida. He is the author of two books, Corruption Behind Bars and Inside the Inner Circle, both based on his years of prison investigations.

Tier Talk, hosted by Corrections1 columnist Anthony Gangi, features interviews with industry experts, conversations about hot topics and pressing issues, and offers lessons to new staff and old about the evolving and ever-changing field of corrections.