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TX: Prisons go begging for guards

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisons go begging for guards 04/30/2008 Lisa Sandberg San Antonio Express-News AUSTIN ? The Neal prison in Amarillo has so few guards working these days that Dorothy Barfoot, a correctional officer, often finds herself working alone in a dorm with 80 to 100 male felons. Sometimes, she gets so scared that her knees shake. ?Usually, there should be two (additional correctional officers), at least,? the 13-year veteran said. But the prison can?t find enough people to do the job of guarding inmates ? in Amarillo or virtually anywhere else. The Texas prison system is short more than 4,300 guards; with 17 percent of its full-time security positions unfilled. Nearly one in five of the state?s 106 prisons operates with less than 75 percent of its correctional guards...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).