MDOC launches recruitment drive for new corrections officers
MDOC launches recruitment drive for new corrections officers By Charles Herrington | February 6, 2021 at 7:06 PM CST - Updated February 6 at 7:07 PM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Officials with the Mississippi Department of Corrections are making their way across the state, hoping to hire hundreds of new corrections officers.
MDOC has launched a recruitment drive.
The goal is to hire about 700 new officers in the next six weeks.
Saturday, agency officials were at several locations across the state, meeting job candidates.
Among the places they stopped was the Petal Walmart.
“It’s replacing attrition, we’ve had a lot of retirees in the last few years,” said Andrew C. Mills, superintendent of the South Mississippi Correctional Institute. “We’ve got some retirees approaching and the State has seen fit to give us a significant pay raise, it’s making us more competitive out with the market.”
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Autopsies set after deaths of 3 more Mississippi inmates
December 22, 2020 GMT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The Mississippi Department of Corrections said autopsies are being done on inmates who died in recent days.
The department said in a news release Monday that William Stanley Wilson II, 42, died Friday in the hospital of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Wilson had been in and out of the hospital during the past year.
Wilson was convicted in DeSoto County of murder, kidnapping and first-degree arson. He was sentenced to 10 years on May 11, 2009, after pleading guilty to kidnapping a minor. A jury later convicted him of killing a woman and setting her home on fire in an unrelated case, and he was sentenced as a habitual offender on Oct. 28, 2009.