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| Despite reforms, Washington prison workers still feel unsafe |
| By heraldnet.com- Jerry Cornfield |
| Published: 04/22/2016 |
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OLYMPIA — The murder of a Monroe corrections officer in 2011 incited Washington to develop and deploy the nation's most comprehensive approach to improving the safety of prison staff. But even with added security cameras, upgraded equipment and revised practices since Jayme Biendl's death, more than half of those working inside Washington's 12 prisons do not actually feel safer, according to findings in a performance audit presented to state lawmakers Wednesday. And the mood is most dour at the Monroe Correctional Complex where only a third reported feeling safer now and 85 percent don't think it will be safer in the near future. Read More. |
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