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.
“If we get more staff, then the working conditions would be better. If we got 10 more people, the working conditions would be astronomically better here. Most of the problems we have here come from our lack of staff,” the prison union’s president said
The Florida Department of Corrections said the officers are now under criminal investigation
“This is noteworthy because it previously had a 30 percent vacancy rate in September of 2023,” Gov. Jim Justice said
Much of what makes corrections so dangerous can be easily fixed, if only society understood the importance of incarceration
Jail is short 12 detention officers and one booking officer
Bill adds increase of $6.6 million compared to the current budget Read more: http://thegazette.com/2014/04/01/iowa-house-justice-systems-budget-adds-troopers-not-prison-guards/#ixzz2xk1PobuJ
Union president: “Corrections officers are getting hurt because of the understaffing, and some are getting hurt badly”
Robert Patton started out his roughly three decades in corrections work as a CO, something that comes across when he talks about how prisons should run
Ongoing COs calling in sick appears to have consequences for everyone except those who abuse leave
$53.5 million would be included to hire corrections and parole officers and expand community corrections programs
Rank among the top 10 earners across Northampton County, including wages, overtime, bonuses and unused sick or vacation time
About $41 million of the money sought would be used to hire 87 employees at prisons
Renville County is adding two full-time correctional officer positions to its jail staff, but will need to add an assistant jail administrator as well
Working for 33 years as Berks County Prison warden was like living in a pressure cooker that George A. Wagner just couldn’t take anymore
Approved legislation that would move new state employees away from the state’s traditional defined benefit pension plan to a 401(k)-style defined contribution plan
Inmate: “As soon as (COs) turned their back a little bit, I dove in the snow and crawled to the path I had in mind”
Allocated more than $360 million for 2015
State officials had promised that there would be a criminal probe, but “no detective was assigned. There was no investigation.”
CCA acknowledged last year that its employees falsified staffing records given to the state
Since Jan. 15, 205 Vermont prisoners in a Beattyville, Ky., for-profit facilty have been locked in their dormitory after a series of assaults and fights
It’s no secret that staff morale can make or break a correctional facility
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