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Union warns of human-resources crisis in corrections and public-safety staffing
Summary
VSEA testimony detailed chronic staffing shortages in corrections (including 16‑hour shifts), high vacancy rates in mental-health and veterans' facilities, and strain on prosecutor and victim-advocate staffing in county state's attorneys' offices.
Steve Howard told the Senate Government Operations Committee that corrections and public-safety functions face acute staffing pressures that threaten services and worker safety.
Howard said corrections' entry-level churn is driven in part by 16-hour shifts and that central-office responses have been insufficient. "The number 1 issue is the 16 hour shifts," he said, describing exhausted correctional staff and localized humanitarian crises at some facilities.…
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