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Staff Shortage in Nation's Prisons
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2001
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2001, page 8
Across the nation, states are plagued by a shortage of prison guards. A decade of building prisons has created an industry that employs more people than General Electric, and costs taxpayers in excess of $40 billion a year. To fill the shortage Kansas recently lowered the age requirements for prison …
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Staffing.
Locations:
Kansas,
Kentucky,
Michigan,
Texas.
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