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Prison jobs suddenly popular
By KRQE News 13
Published: 03/12/2009

Security job with job security
Updated: Tuesday, 10 Mar 2009, 10:33 PM MDT

SANTA FE (KRQE) - The downturn in the national economy created an upturn in job applicants at the state Department of Corrections which normally struggles to fill its openings.

The department which normally struggles to fill job openings now has dozens of applications.

There are 81 job openings at the state penitentiary in Santa Fe, which is not unusual. What is unusual is the dozens of hopeful jobseekers lining up for positions they may not have a few years ago.

It's a hard knock life.

Tia Bland, with the Dept. of Corrections says,

“We have a level-two inmate, which is sort of a minimum-security inmate, and we also have maximum-security inmates." Tia Bland of the Corrections Department said.

But Warren Finley told KRQE News 13 he is up for the challenge.

"I'm not afraid of anybody they have here," he said. "I have always been told fear no man."

Finley said he's been bouncing around different jobs for the past few years but see's being a corrections officer as an opportunity.

"I could retire from here," he said. "As far as the benefits, and it's always steady. Read more.


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