Saturday, October 13, 2012

Conditions Affect Staff as Well

We need to remember that once anyone enters jail or prison, those In Walls conditions affect them.  All of them.

Oklahhoma Rep. Jeff Hickman, R-Fairview is investigating the wide-spead turn-over of prison staff.


“These prison staffing levels are life and death situations now,” Hickman said. “Someone is going to die if we don't make some changes and make them sooner rather than later.”
The Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester is short 50 employees, he said. The maximum-security prison is authorized to have 521 workers and is funded to have 363. It has 310.


Read more: http://newsok.com/oklahoma-prison-workers-need-pay-increase-legislative-panel-told/article/3717957#ixzz29BtDpyna

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