Kornholio
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Ok...not everyone in prison is the "worst of the worst", but I was failing at coming up with a catchier title.
A recent conversation amongst some of my LEO friends and I kept revolving around the low staffing levels of prisons in this country. Particularly federal prisons and jails. I studied and wrote a paper about this back in college (my degree is in criminal justice) in the aughts and determined that the average wage was something like $10 per hour on the low end (yes...seriously) and something like $18 an hour in the highest paid places like California. Granted, that's the starting wage but still. The crux of the conversation going back to staffing levels for prisons and jails (that don't use county deputies as guards) would likely be a lot higher if the pay were realistically commensurate with the work load and relative degree of danger involved. One of the things I posited in my paper and I still wonder today is why police officers get paid so much more than the people that have to deal with the housing and containment of the people the police only deal with relatively briefly while arresting them.
Long story short, if the pay was the same or at least raised significantly so as to make it fair based on their work load, I think staffing would be a far lower concern. What say BARF? :dunno
A recent conversation amongst some of my LEO friends and I kept revolving around the low staffing levels of prisons in this country. Particularly federal prisons and jails. I studied and wrote a paper about this back in college (my degree is in criminal justice) in the aughts and determined that the average wage was something like $10 per hour on the low end (yes...seriously) and something like $18 an hour in the highest paid places like California. Granted, that's the starting wage but still. The crux of the conversation going back to staffing levels for prisons and jails (that don't use county deputies as guards) would likely be a lot higher if the pay were realistically commensurate with the work load and relative degree of danger involved. One of the things I posited in my paper and I still wonder today is why police officers get paid so much more than the people that have to deal with the housing and containment of the people the police only deal with relatively briefly while arresting them.
Long story short, if the pay was the same or at least raised significantly so as to make it fair based on their work load, I think staffing would be a far lower concern. What say BARF? :dunno