Faced with continuing staffing shortfalls, managers must adjust policies and operations while still maintaining a safe and secure correctional environment during this time of "new reality." Our seventh staffing article confirms the challenges and suggests needed changes in policies and operations.
It is official: the field continues to face a staffing crisis. The U.S. Senate acknowledged a "national corrections staffing crisis" at the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary hearing on February 28, 2024. Former Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel told Senators: "The most significant challenge our correctional systems face is insufficient staffing. Inadequate staffing presently affects our local, state, and federal prisons and jails. And it is a problem that is not going to go away any time soon." Read More.
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