can't show any of the old timers cause they got the thousand yard stare and old raggedy uniforms and look like hell, only COT's look that fresh and happy, cause they have no idea what they are getting into...
It would actually be cheaper to pay COs the same as an average sheriffs deputy and offer step raises for retention purposes. An E5 in the national guard is going to cost well over 60K in pay and BAH. A private is going to cost more than a CO. Add in long term hotel stays for 9 plus months and you easily go over 100K per guard soldier. FDC has no raises for officers who stay. They make the same amount in year 8 as they did when they started! An officer who can work toward 55 to 60k for staying is going to be happier than a similarly experienced officer still making what he made on day one.
Also FDC should have stayed on 12 hour shifts instead of going to 8 hour shifts. Now instead of having every other weekend off and every holiday off. Officers will never have time to spend with families. Their reasons for going 8 hour shifts was dumb and plays a big part in sending the vacancy rates upward
Yep! DOC vehicles catching on fire during transports. It was bad back in the days when I started. You had to work the compound with no equipment most of the time.
Stop putting everyone in prison. I quit that job. Pay sucks, dangerous. It's big money business for the state. If you didn't physically hurt anyone then stop
@Yakinfun4you I believe this person is saying the state of Florida should pay COs $65k a year starting out in stead of $41k a year. How is it so far? Do you like it
@Yakinfun4you I believe this person is saying the state of Florida should pay COs $65k a year starting out in stead of $41k a year. How is it so far? Do you like it
@Yakinfun4you I believe this person is saying the state of Florida should pay COs $65k a year starting out in stead of $41k a year. How is it so far? Do you like it
@Yakinfun4you I believe this person is saying the state of Florida should pay COs $65k a year starting out in stead of $41k a year. How is it so far? Do you like it
I can’t speak for other prisons in Florida, but I can speak to about Columbia Prison there’s been days where we’ve only had seven relief officers and everybody else’s mandated to stay all the time
No, there are only 7 privately-owned prisons in florida (Bay Correctional Facility Blackwater River Correctional Facility Gadsden Correctional Facility Graceville Correctional Facility Lake City Correctional Facility Moore Haven Correctional Facility South Bay Correctional Facility) The rest of the prisons are owned and ran by the state of Florida
