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| Staff shortages plague Augusta Correctional |
| By newsleader.com- Brad Zinn |
| Published: 09/09/2014 |
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CRAIGSVILLE – There aren't many jobs where you expect to be spit on, or possibly attacked. In the case of J.D. White, a retired officer with Augusta Correctional Center, he was once stabbed in the chest by an inmate early in his career. "I was 24. He was 21," White recalled. But the violence, or its constant threat, didn't deter White from a 25-year career in the corrections field, most of that time spent at the Craigsville prison. White, now 53, retired in 2011. During the early stages of his career, he was stationed at the center before switching to the now defunct Staunton Correctional Center. In 2002, after the state closed Staunton's prison, he transferred back to Augusta Correctional, a level 3 prison with a daily average of nearly 1,100 inmates. Read More. |
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