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| Improved economy creating prison staffing crisis for Kansas |
| By lubbockonline.com- John Hanna |
| Published: 01/04/2016 |
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ELLSWORTH, Kan. — Unemployment is down and wages are up in Kansas — except for corrections officers. They are leaving state prisons in droves because of low pay, creating a public safety crisis that legislators will have to deal with on top of plugging a budget hole. Their starting pay is about 33 percent less than the state’s average hourly wage of $20.20, and overall wages are about a quarter lower than the national average. The annual turnover rate is up to nearly 30 percent. Things are so bad that the state is hiring 18-year-olds to manage hardened criminals, despite some prison leaders’ misgivings. Read More. |
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