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Tight Prison Budget Doesn't Slow Recruiting
By wfsu.org- Jim Ash
Published: 04/14/2016

The Department of Corrections is determined to hire 4,000 new prison guards in the next year and a half, even though lawmakers agreed to pay for just 215 this year.

Recruiters were out in force Wednesday at a job fair on Tallahassee’s south side.

A half hour before it begins, Captain Felicia Anderson and Officer Patricia Hall are shuffling a pile of applications and arranging a dozen complimentary plastic mugs with the FDC logo. Both women are wearing crisp brown uniforms.

Anderson is a 24-year department veteran who has been spending four days a week at various recruiting events. Today she’s trying to fill 29 openings at Madison Correctional Institution.

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