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Guam senators warn performance-based budgeting must account for DOC staffing shortfalls
Summary
At a March 9 oversight hearing, DOC leaders and senators told the Committee on Public Safety that chronic officer shortages, high caseloads and facility constraints make a standard performance-based budget difficult to apply; staff requested pay adjustments and more recruitment support.
The Committee on Public Safety, Emergency Management and Guam National Guard heard March 9 that chronic staffing shortages and a heavy pretrial population complicate applying performance-based budgeting to the Department of Corrections.
"We need at least 60, 70 prisoners to run the facility effectively," Warden Wharton Borja told the committee, describing perimeter vulnerabilities and sustained turnover that leave single officers supervising dozens of detainees and inmates. Borja said DOC manages roughly 900–927 clients islandwide and is short of the officers needed for safe operations.
Senator Chris…
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