Post by Logan on Jul 2, 2016 4:35:15 GMT -6
Maryland has severe shortage of correctional officers, union says
The union that represents employees at Maryland prisons charged Thursday that the state has a severe shortage of correctional officers, leading to dangerous conditions in the facilities.
Several dozen members and officials of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees gathered outside the Dorsey Run Correctional Facility in Jessup for a news conference at which they blamed Gov. Larry Hogan for what they called a hazardous level of understaffing.
Sgt. Christopher Duffy, a correctional officer at the state correctional training facility in Hagerstown, said Public Safety Secretary Stephen Moyer told him in April that the department had 1,000 fewer correctional officers than it needs.
Union officials said chronic understaffing and compulsory overtime were leaving correctional officers fatigued, stressed and short of time with their families.
Read more: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-afscme-prisons-20160630-story.html#nt=oft09a-3gp1
The union that represents employees at Maryland prisons charged Thursday that the state has a severe shortage of correctional officers, leading to dangerous conditions in the facilities.
Several dozen members and officials of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees gathered outside the Dorsey Run Correctional Facility in Jessup for a news conference at which they blamed Gov. Larry Hogan for what they called a hazardous level of understaffing.
Sgt. Christopher Duffy, a correctional officer at the state correctional training facility in Hagerstown, said Public Safety Secretary Stephen Moyer told him in April that the department had 1,000 fewer correctional officers than it needs.
Union officials said chronic understaffing and compulsory overtime were leaving correctional officers fatigued, stressed and short of time with their families.
Read more: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-afscme-prisons-20160630-story.html#nt=oft09a-3gp1