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| Dept of Correction: 322 prison guards have quit since August |
| By knoxnews.com |
| Published: 07/31/2015 |
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NASHVILLE — At least 322 correctional officers have quit their jobs in Tennessee’s prison system since last August, when the state began implementing a new work schedule designed to save money, according to new figures from the Department of Correction. The agency told House Democratic Leader Craig Fitzhugh, in response to a series of questions he asked, that it is “unable to fully determine” whether the new 28-day work schedule “contributed to their decision to leave.” The department also said it cannot compare the resignation rate to previous years because the new system was not fully implemented throughout the prison system until June. The department has 2,587 correctional officer positions statewide but it won’t disclose, for security reasons, how many vacancies exist at each prison, TDOC spokeswoman Neysa Taylor said Thursday night. Fitzhugh, the minority leader from Ripley, said he is growing increasingly concerned about new outbreaks of violence inside the prisons, possibly as a result of understaffing. He said he’s been contacted by prison employees across the state who say they are frightened over the new conditions. Read More. |
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