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NH Corrections department holds job fair
By concordmonitor.com- Jeremy Blackman
Published: 08/18/2014

Guarding a prison isn’t exactly Adam Callahan’s first choice of professions. But a man needs a job, and at 31, married and unemployed since at least June, he’s feeling the pinch of life without a paycheck.

So on Thursday about 2 p.m., the New Jersey native and disabled military veteran showed up at the Howard Recreation Center in Concord, for Part Two of the state’s first corrections-only job fair in at least a decade.

The event, held in Manchester and Concord and sponsored by New Hampshire Employment Security, was meant to attract young men and women to a profession officials say has been hit hard in recent years. Officer staffing at the Concord state prison alone is nearly 100 below what it should be, according to officials. Officers are routinely required to put in three, sometimes four overtime shifts per week to fill the void.

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