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US prisons down 6,000 officers, forcing others to guard inmates


Cooks, nurses guard inmates with US prisons down 6K officers
The DOJ budgeted for 20,446 full-time correctional officer positions in 2020, but the agency that runs federal prisons says it currently employs 13,762 officers.
Author: MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press
Published: 11:57 AM EDT May 21, 2021
Updated: 11:57 AM EDT May 21, 2021
WASHINGTON Nearly one-third of federal correctional officer jobs in the United States are vacant, forcing prisons to use cooks, teachers, nurses and other workers to guard inmates.
At a federal penitentiary in Texas, prisoners are locked in their cells on weekends because there are not enough guards to watch them. Elsewhere in the system, fights are breaking out, several inmates have escaped in recent months and, in Illinois, at one of the most understaffed prisons in the country, five inmates have died in homicides or suicides since March 2020. ....

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