Recruitment
The Recruitment section is dedicated to strategies and best practices for attracting and hiring qualified candidates in the correctional field. This directory offers articles and resources on effective recruitment techniques, workforce diversity, and the challenges of staffing correctional facilities. Understanding the recruitment process is essential for building a strong, capable team that meets the demands of the correctional environment. For more on career development, explore our section on Corrections1 Career Resources.
Compensation plan, recruitment efforts continue to reduce security staff vacancies
In an effort to boost staffing, the Pennsylvania DOC reduced the CO’s minimum age requirement to 18
The Maine Criminal Justice Academy welcomed 67 new correctional officers, marking the largest class to graduate from the Basic Corrections Training Program
Staff shortages and inmate overcrowding are jeopardizing the safety of prison workers and that many of them are leaving because of employee burnout
Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to hire Lorna Nichols as the cook supervisor for the jail
Wyoming, Michigan, Kansas, Texas, and other states are facing a shortfall of 20 percent or more
DOC paid over $320 million in employee over time and compensatory payments over a five-year period
Request for $1.2 million was denied over lack of data
Fully funding the community-based correctional budget, in this and every district, has a direct effect on community safety
Sheriff Tom McCool says the women don’t work because he doesn’t have enough staff to supervise the inmates
“It’s not an overcrowding issue. We are actually under capacity — but severely understaffed”
The county sheriff is in a financial crisis, and the ramifications are clear at the jail
Department asking governor to include $28.4M to hire 448 people and install an electronic medical records system
Oklahoma Corrections Professionals Executive Director Sean Wallace said the cutbacks are happening at almost every state facility
State correctional officers are being put at risk because of critical staffing shortages in state prisons
Consensus elusive among state employees in KPERS
Concerned about safety in their workplace, union reps for state correction officers are speaking up around New York
Have shrunk mandatory overtime hours from 24 to 12
Nearly 100 members of the union gathered after an officer at the facility was bludgeoned and stabbed by an inmate
Union is blaming the state for the attack, citing staffing cuts two years ago
Kevin Ott is in serious but stable condition at a local hospital
Security issues involving a food service contractor, a major escape in Lima and continued low staffing levels concern the union
Yearlong study says 100 additional officers are needed to fill vacant posts when correctional staff are on sick leave, training or off for other reasons
COs have been working mandatory overtime shifts for more than five months
Originally built as part of an $8.5 million project that also built the juvenile center and other renovations, it’s been empty ever since it was constructed
DOC officials are searching for creative ways to cover guard shifts at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge while trying to recruit candidates to fill 65 openings
That’s the second time in as many years that the ongoing manpower shortage in the Illinois Department of Corrections has led to a $60 million-plus payout
Needed 9 more staff members for a new facility, did not receive the budget for them
Councilman stated that the jail has never been at full capacity for staffing, so how do they know how many officers they really need?
Overtime at the jail annex decreased from $68,000 to $6,000
Seeking to fill 60 jail staff vacancies swiftly
To date, only 27 of the 83 promised staff members have been hired
Minister Ronald Massey said he’s been coming to the jail to preach for nearly 20 years and said that he’s never been turned away so often until recently
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