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.
The judge acknowledged the city’s good faith efforts to fix understaffing by recruiting more COs with better pay and incentives but emphasized that more needs to be done
The union’s president said in a letter that COs are being forced to work mandatory 16-hour overtime shifts and, at times, with “far less than the required numbers of officers”
Ala. DOC partners with college to help future COs meet physical, educational requirements at no cost
Participants who complete the ACTIVATE program may earn up to nine free college credit hours, as well as gain preparation for the academy and a career with the ADOC
County efforts to boost hiring at jail are stymied by elaborate recruitment process, wave of retirements
It’s time to recognize that protections for correctional officers make prisons safer for everyone
If the Crawford County jail adds six new full-time positions, it won’t happen until next year
Executive Director of the Kansas Organization of State Employees Rebecca Proctor is concerned that 18 may be too young
New Sheriff Gary Caruana is asking the county board to approve a $6.7 million budget increase for more officers and equipment
If federal recommendations are followed, the jail should have 54.4 full-time corrections officers, but there are 44
“We have lots of young officers coming in,” he said. “They need that supervision.”
DOC gained raises for correctional officers during the 2015 Legislature
$7.6 million spending plan to hire 100 additional correctional officers to the Nevada Department of Corrections was endorsed by a legislative panel Thursday
Overtime costs had been decreasing every year since 2010 when the department spent $24.2 million
One officer reported a ratio of one officer to about 200 inmates, creating unsafe working conditions for prison staff
Commissioner says that staffing won’t get short changed
Kankakee County Sheriff Timothy Bukowski said that the Jerome Combs Detention Center has lost between 15 and 20 percent of staff
About 60 officers, wearing shirts that read ‘Equal Pay for Equal Risk,’ went to the offices of senators and representatives to state their cases for pay and staffing increases
It would take 857 additional correctional officers to fully staff state prisons
Eleven part-time employees who were laid off following the Jan. 14 county prison fire will return to work in a new location
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
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