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Kansas corrections chief tells committee pay increases and new recruiting cut uniform vacancies nearly in half
Summary
Kansas Department of Corrections officials told the House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice on Jan. 14 that pay increases and a new recruitment vendor have substantially reduced uniform vacancies since the pandemic, but turnover and a relatively inexperienced workforce remain challenges.
Secretary Zamuda of the Kansas Department of Corrections told the House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice on Jan. 14 that wage increases and a targeted recruitment campaign have reduced uniform staffing vacancies from roughly 470 in January 2022 to about 210 today.
He said the department has 3,476.5 authorized positions and that vacancies in uniform security posts dropped after pay increases implemented in 2022, July 2023 and July 2024. "We had 470 uniform vacancies...Today we have about 210 uniform vacancies. That's 11% of our uniform workforce compared to that 26% high that we experienced back during the pandemic," Zamuda told the committee.
The reduction came…
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