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CO shortage prompts changes in Texas
By Associated Press
Published: 01/10/2008

TEXAS - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has shuttered part of a prison in the Panhandle and reorganized the inmate population of an East Texas lockup as it deals with a shortage of [correctional officers], officials said.

The prison system has about 83 percent of the correctional officers it needs, and at least 14 state prisons were operating with 75 percent or fewer of their [CO] positions filled at the end of November. Read more.

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