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.
As it works to improve prison healthcare, ODOC is contracting nurses, increasing off-site medical trips and holding town halls with inmates to address healthcare gaps
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Corrections officer vacancies have fallen from 10.5% to 4.8% after recruitment events, military outreach and lowering the age requirement from 21 to 18 expanded the applicant pool
Union president for COs jokes that “everything runs off duct tape and band-aids” in the understaffed prison with failing infrastructure
The new contract, which requires union and legislature approval, also includes a $1,200 health and wellness stiped in 2023 and 2024
If training academies can facilitate and promote commitment to the occupation, it could be possible to slow the surge of correctional officers leaving the occupation each year
Lieutenant (Ret.) Gary Cornelius discusses steps you can take to maintain officer morale while providing quality supervision of inmates and enhancing the careers of staff.
Read this report to better understand the factors that affect staffing in the corrections environment and what steps you can take to address the challenges.
Even after $100M in recent funding more is needed to increase pay to reduce chronic staffing shortages and make overdue repairs
Officials asked for more staff after a High Desert State inmate was fatally stabbed with a prison-made shank by another prisoner who escaped his separation cage
Officials said Billings has outgrown its jail throughout the past decade; that issue has been exacerbated by a chronic lack of detention officers to staff
Good training strategies make for competent employees who are in their element at work and less likely to look for greener pastures
In Georgia, the state began a series of pay raises, with corrections officers getting $4,000 and state troopers $6,000
To address staffing concerns, the county gave deputy probation officers a 12% raise and authorized bonuses to incentivize working in the juvenile hall
Larch Corrections Center officials said the facility is planned to close in October, giving enough time to help 115 staff members find other jobs
Individuals who receive the bonus must maintain uninterrupted full-time employment with a Florida law enforcement agency for two consecutive years
With the $3,000 increase, Florence County COs will make more than $43,000 a year
The lawsuit argues the changes to a law effectively strip the sheriff of his control over the prison and “curtails the power of an elected official (the sheriff)”
New COs will start off earning $25 an hour this year, and up to $26.50 per hour by 2025, per the terms of a new bargaining agreement with Cuyahoga County
Part of California Men’s Colony state prison will close due to declining inmate populations
In the wake of a staffing crisis and reports of increased violence and drug use, a state agency report called for Los Angeles County’s juvenile halls to be closed
The pilot program started last year in hopes of bringing in more candidates. Candidates must still pass a physical agility test
Making prisons more “normal and humane” will also create better work environments for correctional officers, the Bureau of Prisons director said
Eliminating the post-high school education requirement was approved in an effort to grow the department’s applicant pool to counter a staffing decline
Morgan County Jail Capt. Richard Moat said he believes the jail is a place where lives can be changed daily
Good training helps with morale, boosts employee self-confidence, improves job performance and improves staff retention
The current class of roughly 89 recruits in the Correction Department Academy will graduate May 19 under the reduced timeline
CO staffing is running at 80% of its full complement to protect and secure the 500 or more inmates at Westmoreland County Prison
Officials want the St. Louis County Council to approve $1.6 million from the general fund to hire an additional 27 correctional officers
“Alarmingly low morale” and continuous long overtime shifts cited by COs
Morgan County commission approves position eliminations and an 8% increase in pay for full-time COs
CO trainees who complete the 10-week academy will have a starting salary of no less than $50,712
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