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Yakima County, city often struggle to fill their jail jobs
By yakimaherald.com- Mark Morey
Published: 11/06/2015

It shouldn’t be this hard to fill one job.

Certainly, someone out there wants to work at the Yakima city jail, where the pay is better than many entry-level positions.

But it’s not that simple.

For at least a year, the Yakima Police Department has advertised three times to fill a single vacancy for a corrections officer.

Of 14 applicants that made it past initial screening over the last year, 10 passed oral interviews. Of those, one took another job and three didn’t pass various background checks. The remaining six are undergoing review.

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