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Prison leaders hope raises will end lingering officer shortages
By wral.com- Tyler Dukes
Published: 07/02/2015

Raleigh, N.C. β€” A few miles due south of Taylorsville, a western North Carolina town of about 2,000, Alexander Correctional Institution houses about 1,000 inmates in the state's highest-security environment.

Since opening in 2004, the facility has gained something of a reputation.

It's the prison where a mentally ill inmate was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement for five days before dying of thirst in March 2014, the place a 2007 National Geographic documentary referred to as "hell."

For years, Alexander Correctional and other large, close-custody prisons across the state have struggled with a particularly stubborn problem: They can't find enough officers to work there.

This winter, about one in five correctional officer positions sat vacant at Alexander Correctional. At the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh, the vacancy rate has averaged about 22 percent over the last two years. At Scotland, Bertie and Lanesboro – all close-custody prisons with inmate populations around 1,000 each – the average vacancy rate for correctional officers hovers around 10 percent.

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