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| NM DOC Hits Tough Spot With Low Staff |
| By newmexicoindependent.com |
| Published: 07/30/2010 |
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Some of New Mexico’s prisons are woefully understaffed as they struggle to recruit and keep correctional officers, according to state data and interviews. Take, for example, the Roswell Correctional Center, a Level II facility with an average daily population of about 330 inmates. A quarter of all correctional officer jobs are vacant — or 27 percent — nearly double the 14 percent of openings for correctional officer jobs across the entire prison system, numbers show. That staffing shortage recently led the New Mexico Corrections Department to send its highly trained Special Operations Response Team to search for contraband and to avert possible violence among that facility’s inmates, an agency spokeswoman confirmed. Read More. |
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