Tag: corrections officers

    “Your Life Is Over”: Prison Guards on 16-Hour Shifts With No Backup

    Three decades ago when I began my prison sentence, corrections officers worked eight-hour shifts. ...

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    Tony Vick

    Corrections Departments Winning Imaginary Fight Against “K2 Exposure”

    In 2021, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department published body-cam footage of a deputy ...

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    Kastalia Medrano

    Prisons Want to Hire More Officers. It’s Easier Than Retaining Them.

    One of the most important things to understand about the rampant understaffing in United ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    New York’s Solution to Prison Staffing Shortage Is to Hire Teenagers

    I thought we learned from the Stanford Prison Experiment that college-age corrections officers are ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    All the New Guards Hired to Improve Security Are Making Prison Less Safe

    In the wake of a Department of Justice investigation that confirmed conditions in Georgia ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos