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 Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said the closures of Great Meadow Correctional and Sullivan Correctional are primarily due to staffing challenges
New York DOCCS determined it could safely close Great Meadow and Sullivan correctional facilities as both prisons are operating with incarcerated populations below capacity
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
$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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