Minimum age requirement for CO lowered to 18 under HB 7057

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https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news...ison-guard-age

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The young folks will be walked all over by the convicts.

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. The state has been going cheap for a long time and its now starting to bite them in the ass. You want to retain employees? Pay them, its that simple.

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. The state has been going cheap for a long time and its now starting to bite them in the ass. You want to retain employees? Pay them, its that simple.

Problem is that the starting pay will be attractive to an 18 year-old with a GED.

It has not been about retaining employees for long, long time. The new norm is to just try and suck all the good years out of a soul and then hope they leave before any sizeable retirement payout accrues!

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Goes to show how desperate the FDC is getting. They refuse to address the problem of low pay by trying to recruit the young gullible. What's next, hiring those with felony convictions just to get more bodies in? FDC is a house of cards ready for collapse. Only a matter of time.

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FDC better pray that 18-year olds don't find out that they can get paid working at a county jail rather than a state prison.

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FDC better pray that 18-year olds don't find out that they can get paid working at a county jail rather than a state prison.

As soon as they figure out what's going on those who can will leave. FDC will be left with those who can't get hired elsewhere - not exactly the cream of the crop. Repeat over and over again.

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As soon as they figure out what's going on those who can will leave. FDC will be left with those who can't get hired elsewhere - not exactly the cream of the crop. Repeat over and over again.

That's it, just run endless academies. The smart ones will figure out there is no future in poor paying FDC and the dumbbells will stay put until they get arrested on new charges. Then they'll hire some more newbies and the cycle will continue until some major incident happens.

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That's it, just run endless academies. The smart ones will figure out there is no future in poor paying FDC and the dumbbells will stay put until they get arrested on new charges. Then they'll hire some more newbies and the cycle will continue until some major incident happens.

That's it. What is needed is an independent cost analysis to see how much all these additional academies cost and the turnover rate, compared to bringing up the pay to competitive levels to reduce the training and turnover rate.

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Disband the FDC sponsored academies. They are just training future CO’s for the county jails.