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| Prisons secretary adds hand-crafted pitch to her call for 734 new corrections officers |
| By tampabay.com- Mary Ellen Klas |
| Published: 03/04/2016 |
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Huddled over a conference table with three top aides, Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones got crafty Wednesday morning, assembling buttons and stickers that read “734” to distribute to legislators. It was her low-budget, self-funded campaign to push for the additional personnel the agency needs to allow corrections officers to go from 12- to 8-hour shifts and increase prison safety. Three critical audits found that an inexperienced and overstretched staff was creating a potentially dangerous work environment. Years of budget cuts had left the agency starved for funding for basic core services and, auditors found, a 17 percent turnover rate has left the department with inexperienced staff handling critical jobs. Read More. |
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