Florida Department of Corrections announces hiring bonuses

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https://www.wcjb.com/content/news/Fl...495252531.html

This is hilarious. FDC hopes to hire more correctional officers while paying them poverty wages. $33,500? A detention deputy at a county jail makes about $10,000 more and max out with a step plan.

For decades, FDC continues to pay correctional officers slave wages, work them to death, and act all surprise that why FDC is unable to retain them?

The answer is simple but FDC doesn't want to face the music, they need to pay more. But no, they would rather waste money, time, and resources to train and certify each correctional officers and hope they're willing to work for less.

Despite the mass exodus of correctional officers quitting, it's amazing that FDC hasn't been disbanded.

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Disband maybe not but divide the two units and allow the sherriff to take over probation yup . This allows the prison side to be focused on and hopefully paid more. I don't want to see the prisons go private but probation should be taken over by the local sheriffs.

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$1,000 huh?! Now there is a tempting enticement! Barely covers the COLA for a year. But the crappy pay remains. DOC is run by morons and funded by cheapskates so this is no surprise.

That hiring bonus will not even cover moving expenses unless you can pile all you junk in the back of the rental truck and move straight into the rented double-wide. Maybe enough left over to throw a hot dog BBQ and cheap beer party for your new co-workers. Speaking of hot dogs, whoever signs up better enjoy them and other cheap unhealthy foods because that is all they will be able to afford on that measly salary.

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DOC should increase the annual pay by $5k-$10k in order to be competitive with the county jails. Otherwise the staffing recruitment and retention problems will continue.