The State of Florida DOC only pay is low, only $17.00 to $18.00 per hour to start, Costco and Walmart stockers get same without the risks or midnight shifts. Corrections Officer Certified rate of pay is $1,288.47 Bi-weekly or $33,500.22 Annually. WHO WOULD DO SUCH A DANGEROUS JOB FOR SUCH PAY?
That is insane. Thanks for adding that. I notice when talking about jobs reporter leave out the pay rate on purpose to make it seem like no one wants to work. When in reality you can get plenty of people to apply and do the job if the pay is right. The ice cream shops in NJ pay $17 an hour to teens and college kids but they want adults with families to risk their lives for the same price. Yet the news doesn’t think that part is important.
Yes they are. The 3 rd largest prison system in the USA. They got to learn how to cut down judge's pay Headsheriff pay politics pay a hell of a lot chief of police. Stop using the army national guard for you fuckery.
@@ucf88cpa over $97 let's see there is community service which it will be $3 per hour. They can pay $97 plus 45% interested on the stolen DVD. The state of Florida is stupid all around.
Florida needs sentencing reform. Then stop housing inmates to make money. FLORIDA has NO parole system which is causing this problem. There must be some type of rotation system and rehabilitation program. Instead of the nation guard the federal government should take over the Florida system established a sentencing reform and parole system When prisons become a warehouses for Wall Street corporations to make money Instead of rehabilitation system this is what happens. The GEO Group makes millions from the state to opérate some of its facilities. Most of the money goes to Corporate Executives and DOC political checks and bonus.
@@CandiceMMartinez For your information I have never done anything to land in prison. So mind your oen business. Last time I did ministry work in the prison system about 30 percent of the inmates were Hispanics Ms Martinez. Some with the same last name as yours. So, I suggest you save your instructions for your community. So, we can save my taxes dollars for feeding poor children and seniors citizens. Now set your butt down and keep your mouth shut. Cause I'm not the one who tolerate you people's BS. Now get to setting stepping.
There's no rehabilitation in our prison systems! Either you have too much time for "programs " or not enough time . Also violent criminals are housed with non violent offenders which creates a predatory or an "eat or be eaten " situation. There should be a better classification process as well as a complete overhaul of our drug laws
I saw a documentary on the prison system in Denmark...the rehab is cooking class to be a chef, teaching some inmates about the use of electronics in the music industry...job training. Plus the cells are betyer than some college dorms.
@@hirameberhardt8643if US prisons are like that ima be stealing all day everyday. The worst that can happen is me living in a nice college dorm. I guarantee that will be most people thinking too
To make up for their lack of state tax Florida over sentences and over incarcerates it's citizens. You can wind up serving years in prison alongside murders for multiple diving infarctions. The lack of guards is part of the problem, the abundance of prisoners is the real issue.
I hope they treat prisoners better than prison guards. There is no reform, no education, no crafts, no training in construction, painting, plumbing, nor brick masonry etc. Nor electrical.
And over the next few years you'll see recruiting and retention dive among the national guard. ** Note, I was activated and in hospitals during the Delta surge.
If you surveyed the staff at DOC before the mass exit last year, you would find that the majority of those employees wanted to stay on 12 hour shifts. Why? So they could have every other weekend off to spend with their families. So they didn’t come to work thinking they were working 8 hours and be told when it was time to leave they would be working 16.
@@ucf88cpa That's why I left. I was doing 17 hours shifts 3-4 times a week, and you still have to go back for the next day, which in reality just couple of hours. It impact my personal life negatively. Show up for 8:30 hrs, forced to stayed another 8:30 hrs, and that if they can find someone to relieved you of your duty.
The problem with corrections especially the State prisons is low pay horrible toxic work environment. Mandatory overtime the guard gets off the shift gets to last gate and is told to go back and work a double shift or they are fired. The supervisors treat the guards like crap and write them up for small infractions etc etc etc and no one wants to be outnumbered in a pod 30 to 1 or have human waste thrown on them by mentally unstable inmates
Aren't we having a real problem right now with shoplifting and other crimes of opportunity like that. In my city they actually go into stores 20 at a time steal stuff and run out, your solution would be?
Exactly. You can go do warehouse work and make 17 an hour. The problem is the pay, I don't see how they don't understand that. Should be automatically 50k start, with a 20 year pension. You would have people lining up in droves.
When you put so many people in prison you have to deploy your military to run them then you are a third world country. your citizens should be more afraid of your police than they are the criminals.
The question is how many of these prisoners are wrongly convicted and the number of inmates who should have received State probation instead of prison time. This does not even cover the inmates who pled no contest out of fear of harsher sentences. In 2006, a news anchor reported " it is being widely reported that the State of Florida has a conspiracy to violate civil rights." End quote. The state of Florida is ruthless when dealing with the population. Collier county sheriff's department is notorious for escalating their in counters with the public. Ruthless people!
@@CandiceMMartinez 2006 is when I saw the female news anchor report. However, nothing has changed so far, but I get the feeling that in the near future, it will be all over the news. A lawyer once told me that their will be a great flood. We the people are sick and tired of the Florida corrupt cops and rouge judicial system.
Why don't you report the real problem with Florida Prison System?? Because of the "legal" slave ring, the Florida Dept. of Corrections has been running for decades. FDOC needs non-violent offenders to work outside the gate! This is why Florida's prisons are overcrowded. There are too many people in prison who should be in the county if at all. Violent offenders can not work outside the gate, so Florida fills its prisons with nonviolent offenders. This way they have many slaves to choose from.
Enlist today, you can staff a prison or sub for a teacher! Maybe you’ll be unpaid border patrol (Texas) Fill our shortages, be a veteran and compensate for our budget shortcomings!
I did contract work in California State Prisons and needed an escort. I asked the person what work they did normally. "Tell inmates 'No.' No you can't do that. No you can't go in there." Besides the work I was doing, me & my crew were visual entertainment from boredom.
Back in 1976 I join the Marine Corps Reserve with the understanding that I could be called up for defense of the country or to assist in national emergencies like natural disasters. I would not have joined if I thought I would be used as a low cost government employee because they don't want to pay higher wages. I can't image many young people today willing to put their life and career on hold for this purpose.
In Florida you can be sent to prison for driving with a suspended license, so maybe they should stop making minor legal infractions a reason to send people up the road
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
Simple stop incarcerating citizens on minor offenses. Employ ankle monitors so people can be at home to support their families. Elemimate the felony designation permitting hardships for infractions to discriminate against hiring, housing etc.
Wanting to do that job -- is going to get a significant percentage of people who will abuse their position and authority. Certainly not all corrections officers are that way, but a significant number are.
We have the largest prison system in the world. The average FREE american breaks the law 260 times a year. I hope you accidently get locked up sometime because I believe thats what it takes for americans to wake up to this prison horror
@@kingjah6420 that's funny I just looked it up it said 14% for drug crimes and 56% for violent crimes. Maybe my stats are wrong please share your data source
In Scotland the reason why they build walls around prison is to keep people from getting in for a holiday especially with gas and electricity bills are up 120% and food prices going up every week
WOW I didn't know it's that bad I went from paying $1000 a month in rent to $1800 and no one seemed to think that was a problem unreal I have worked since I was 15 years old and proud of everything I've managed to get through in life and never had to ask for any help these past few months I've had to get money from charities even though I work full time as a teacher I don't live in fancy apartment just safe and clean I don't go out or spend money on fancy things I never have but used most of my retirement and 401 to make it threw pandemic and all the price increases it's sad all the money I saved for all these years is gone I'm 56 and now have cancer my insurance sucks and I pay a lot out of pocket I mean when does it end when do decent people who've done right paid taxes always worked when do we get help I'm sorry you are struggling I am going to read and be more aware of situations in your country Be strong because we don't have a choice big hugs
@@kimberlybenton1286 I worked for fifty years long hours low pay because I paid into a works pension I get less of a government pension than someone who couldn't be bothered to get off their arse and get a job my age 70yr old
@@kimberlybenton1286 find a way to make money in your off-time, doesn’t have to be much at all just a few thousand a year extra and it will give you a lot of breathing room,,I was feeling exactly the same as you mine went from just under 1000(abt 970) to $1300, started a side business with a coworker that’s unrelated to our corporate field and we’re both very thankful for doing so!!
I did more or less weekly prison and jail ministry, after about 16,18 years I figured they need to execute about 20% of them. They are so spoiled and immune to the punishment of incarceration and usually get out and do the same crimes, all while ruining the men that would just go to jail, do their time and never return to jail. For sure government has done their best and volunteers help but the inmates are so used to going back and regaining their health that no laws or programs can fix it. The only hope is individuals getting miracle revelation that their life can get better
@@eboyd2478 Brother, and I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, you ever seen a guy get raped and the other guys just mind their own business? Ove happened upon it 3 times over the years. Kinda like horses, real quick. But what do I know? I'm not trying to be ugly, I'm talking pg to this site
@@billyperry3059 25 years of visiting prisons and supporting people that go also. But I figured if I go to Biker bars I might catch some guys before they get serious charges and end up in prison. So yeah I try to be part of the solution. Like President Bush said at 911, "volunteer for something. Well I figured I was on track about 14 years ahead of his request. Hope that answers your question
They need to start making police work In corrections for their first 5 years. Full time for the first year part time for the second year and x amount of hours per month for the next 3 years. It'll help teach them where people go when they make up things, and or jail people who don't deserve to be. We lock up entirely too many people in this country. It's become one of the biggest cash cows for the rich and politicians
TY for reporting on this. I pray it brings relief to those being tortured in there. I'm grateful my son was delivered to our door & he is home again. He is starting to put back on weight & tremors from med abuse have nearly ceased after tapering him down from overdose of med I told Psychiatrist he had negative side effects from in the past. I pray others can be rescued.🙏
My son was released From Appalacia prison in the panhandle. Within 2 weeks was found drowned in a canal in West Palm Beach. It seems someone didn't want him talking about what went on especially the drone drug drops. He had his bottom teeth punched out on an order of one of the Deputies for mouthing off. He had been transferred out of Santa Rosa after an attempted rape in the bathroom. He was kept in solitary for almost 3 months for not answering the warden's questions. They were trying to get him to admit to gang membership which was absurd because all the gangs were either Latino or black and he was neither. I pray your son has an easier time of transition.
People need to remember that the courts do not send people to prison for light offenses. Many prisoners are given several chances to reform themselves before going to prison. Prison is a rough place to be, a rough place to work. There are no easy answers, but it's important to have professionally trained guards who are competitively compensated. The state has neglected this for many years.
Let the small low time low level inmates out ,quit sending them back for minor issues like dirty UAs for pot or alcohol unless they have committed a actual crime this would help financially and population control...
Isn't that against the law for them to be active against United States citizens and our own Homeland they're not supposed to be used for that am I correct
The national guard is at the service of the governor. It's not federal. But if the prison (s) in Florida are private, then they need to hire more folks with acceptable pay.
Private prisons are not an issue whatsoever the government just loves to shift blame, they’re the ones who okay and allocate funds to pmc and private prisons in the first place. Privately held prisoners makeup around 5% of all FL inmates, maybe they should impose and income tax on folks making upwards of 150k and pay gov workers more
The problem is not only the salary the problem is the inmates run the caps they have far more rides than the correctional officers! When they are right are far greater than those who go there to protect the public, the staff is abused the inmates are never punished and inmates don't have to follow the rules! Not only are they working 12-hour days you never get a reward as a staff member to feel like you have assisted any inmate in correcting the behavior that brought them there! This has continually gotten worse through the years. You don't have discipline for the inmates only for the staff! They are not a team because the upper echelon divides the staff to secure their jobs because of the rules they have to follow. Staff the upper echelon and the regular Co are afraid to implement the rules that have been set forth in years previous. Few bad apples and the barrel has ruined it for the state of Florida being able to do their jobs as it should be done. Don't abuse the staff, don't abuse the inmates but inmates should be made to comply with a different way of living without violence. It is a tremendously horrible place to have to work. All females need to come out of the Men's prison and man out of the women's prison. And they need to be trained to be a team. So many of those inmates are there because their families couldn't stand them anymore. But yet they will complain and bellyache about inmate rights, inmate rights. They are not mistreated, they mistreat the staff and the state make sure of that. Don't believe me get you an inside job in a prison and then come back and report on it. Perhaps even the secretary or the governor and 10 journalist need to learn the real reason they have to call the National Guard in. It's because the staff has to work in such an abusive environment they cannot tolerate it anymore, they don't work but two three months and they see they can't handle it then they really shouldn't have to. People who have gone to prison deserve to be there for the most part you may have one or two innocent ones in there you may have 10 or 20 but the other million in there are guilty. But the State of Florida has become so lenient on the inmate rights and what can be said to them and how they can be treated until anyone working in that environment is being abused it is horrible! Don't respond to me just go check it out for yourself.
Well said. I posted on here with similar points. I remember when that one bitch Secretary, that came over from DMV around 2011 or so, started to ruin things. Like thinking changing our uniform colors from brown/tan to black/blue was TOP priority...🙄
@@capeman10 Dude, I'd have no doubt. Another example, back in the early 2000's, the company Aramark was contracted out for the state's food service/cafeteria stuff. The governor at the time was Voldemort-looking Rick Scott who, from what I heard back then, his wife owned A LOT of stock in Aramark.
There is big money in human warehousing, it's a very profitable business$$$... And what is sad is, some non-violent inmates put in with an absolute predator animal. It's easy to say"probably had it coming'!!!(that's b******* you tell yourself)
The issue is that there aren't enough officers to inmate ratio. On a daily basis in the prison system, there are fights, deaths, threats, and so much more that officers have to deal with. They risk their lives and deal with more in a day than most understand. When you deal with this stress and risk consistently, you should not only be receiving reasonable pay for the risk but also the expertise you must have to hold this position. They aren't given the proper pay, safety, resources, funding, or respect as police, army, or even teachers are given. You can guarantee that any of the military that is being sent to the prison is being paid more than these officers for doing the same job. These officers need to be given more support to target these issues.
you have seen to many movies. CO's are not getting attacked daily like you say is happing and that is a fact. be fair but firm and guess what you wont have a issue as a CO
The State of Florida DOC only pay is low, only $17.00 to $18.00 per hour to start, Costco and Walmart stockers get same without the risks or midnight shifts.
Corrections Officer Certified rate of pay is $1,288.47 Bi-weekly or $33,500.22 Annually. WHO WOULD DO SUCH A DANGEROUS JOB FOR SUCH PAY?
& they get more on lockdowns - makes no sense 🤦
No stabby stab
How much is the retard management getting paid ?
That is insane. Thanks for adding that. I notice when talking about jobs reporter leave out the pay rate on purpose to make it seem like no one wants to work. When in reality you can get plenty of people to apply and do the job if the pay is right.
The ice cream shops in NJ pay $17 an hour to teens and college kids but they want adults with families to risk their lives for the same price. Yet the news doesn’t think that part is important.
Check your facts. Pay increase to 20.00 starting plus hiring incentives
Aren't these prisons private for profit and if so, why are the taxpayers having to staff them instead of the people who run them?
Yes they are. The 3 rd largest prison system in the USA. They got to learn how to cut down judge's pay Headsheriff pay politics pay a hell of a lot chief of police. Stop using the army national guard for you fuckery.
Most Florida prisons are state run very few are private
Corruption at it's best
This is probably a precursor to privatization.
No Einstein the Florida prisons are ran by the state . Did you even watch the video ? The problem is they pay $10 an hour .
Direct result of hostile, adversarial, management creating a toxic work environment forcing employees to quit.
Maybe stop sending people to prison for nonviolent offences...sentencing reform
The reason they do that is to feed the system. Which is full of shit.
Serving 30 years for stealing 6 DVDs is ridiculous. $750k to incarcerate over a theft of $97. See the 12/16/21 Crisis in Corrections.
@@ucf88cpa over $97 let's see there is community service which it will be $3 per hour. They can pay $97 plus 45% interested on the stolen DVD. The state of Florida is stupid all around.
@@ucf88cpa agree it's all BS
@@dariusgibbs583 the state of Florida wants criminals off the streets.. doubtful they care to incarcerate a petty thief
Florida needs sentencing reform. Then stop housing inmates to make money. FLORIDA has NO parole system which is causing this problem. There must be some type of rotation system and rehabilitation program. Instead of the nation guard the federal government should take over the Florida system established a sentencing reform and parole system
When prisons become a warehouses for Wall Street corporations to make money Instead of rehabilitation system this is what happens. The GEO Group makes millions from the state to opérate some of its facilities. Most of the money goes to Corporate Executives and DOC political checks and bonus.
You are so correct!
Preach!!!!
So then don't do anything that will lead to prison.
@@CandiceMMartinez For your information I have never done anything to land in prison. So mind your oen business. Last time I did ministry work in the prison system about 30 percent of the inmates were Hispanics Ms Martinez. Some with the same last name as yours. So, I suggest you save your instructions for your community. So, we can save my taxes dollars for feeding poor children and seniors citizens. Now set your butt down and keep your mouth shut. Cause I'm not the one who tolerate you people's BS. Now get to setting stepping.
That’s what California did and they released all the .PDFiles
There's no rehabilitation in our prison systems! Either you have too much time for "programs " or not enough time . Also violent criminals are housed with non violent offenders which creates a predatory or an "eat or be eaten " situation. There should be a better classification process as well as a complete overhaul of our drug laws
I saw a documentary on the prison system in Denmark...the rehab is cooking class to be a chef, teaching some inmates about the use of electronics in the music industry...job training. Plus the cells are betyer than some college dorms.
That makes too much sense
The prison system is about revenge - Indiana CO.
True I've been to Jax FL prison before it was shell
@@hirameberhardt8643if US prisons are like that ima be stealing all day everyday. The worst that can happen is me living in a nice college dorm. I guarantee that will be most people thinking too
Pay more. Pay more. Pay more. Pay more. Raise pay. Raise pay. Raise pay.
It ain’t going to matter how much they raise the pay. Their world is going down either way.
To make up for their lack of state tax Florida over sentences and over incarcerates it's citizens. You can wind up serving years in prison alongside murders for multiple diving infarctions. The lack of guards is part of the problem, the abundance of prisoners is the real issue.
Simple solution - stop driving like an asshole.
I feel sorry and pray for the National Guard members who have to deal with this crap.
I hope they treat prisoners better than prison guards. There is no reform, no education, no crafts, no training in construction, painting, plumbing, nor brick masonry etc. Nor electrical.
And over the next few years you'll see recruiting and retention dive among the national guard. ** Note, I was activated and in hospitals during the Delta surge.
Then why is there a list of soldiers volunteering to come on orders for this assignment?
There will be after they experience it for a bit
Great story…but this is such BS. No guardsman signed up,to be overworked in a prison. What a bargain for the State.
NG still makes a lot of money and paid living expenses.
This is not a reasonable deployment of troops.
Only thing is that they will have to pay them regular army pay and hazard pay. So more money they have to spend.
How bout less cops and prosecutors who are both more highly funded than social services or public defenders?
making them work 12 hour shifts is just wrong, they are over worked four 10 hour days but not 12 hour days
If you surveyed the staff at DOC before the mass exit last year, you would find that the majority of those employees wanted to stay on 12 hour shifts.
Why?
So they could have every other weekend off to spend with their families.
So they didn’t come to work thinking they were working 8 hours and be told when it was time to leave they would be working 16.
I've been locked up in FL... Stop lying c.o's don't do shit but sit on they asses on their computers. They just get paid shitty down here in FL
@@ucf88cpa That's why I left. I was doing 17 hours shifts 3-4 times a week, and you still have to go back for the next day, which in reality just couple of hours. It impact my personal life negatively. Show up for 8:30 hrs, forced to stayed another 8:30 hrs, and that if they can find someone to relieved you of your duty.
The problem with corrections especially the State prisons is low pay horrible toxic work environment. Mandatory overtime the guard gets off the shift gets to last gate and is told to go back and work a double shift or they are fired. The supervisors treat the guards like crap and write them up for small infractions etc etc etc and no one wants to be outnumbered in a pod 30 to 1 or have human waste thrown on them by mentally unstable inmates
exactly right, 21 years of that job was enough for me
Don't forget Co's are the scum of the earth.
@@commiesnzombies Thanks for keeping us Americans safe, your the biggest hero out there.
Exactly. I use to work Georgia corrections. Horrible pay. Now I work for Federal Corrections, triple the money
Low paid mean there’s some corrupt guards there. The criminals paid them well than the government do.
High quality important journalism.
Well done.
This would be a better world if we had more of this as opposed to the low hanging fruit of politics.
The national guard is for emergencies - not because states refuse enough to hire guards or taxpayers refuse to pay hire taxes.
Emergencies like the pandemic, tornados, food shortages, shutdowns, they are at the prison instead of helping people.
" I joined the army to get out of prison time and the army sent me to a prison anyway"
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Those we're the days. some Guys appreciated the option and found a family.
Really you can't bandage a crushed system. Corruption corrupts. Life sentencing is out of control. Reform is needed.
Are you kidding? Some of this scum deserve it!
Don't kill people and you won't have to worry about a life sentence
crime is out of control..
At this point, I'm not surprised at anything that happens in Florida 😑
This post is nothing but liberal BS
Women should NEVER be guards in a male prison. 😮
How else will they breed with bad boys?
Agreed unless there's some big Butch type
And vice versa
I agree
Do your screening on the inmates the one that really don't need to be there Release them From prison!
Another AI robot
Show me a person that shouldn't be there you can look it up
Well, housing worthless, violent thugs and felons on death row for 20yrs is a waste of tax dollars.
Start executing,20 yrs alongtime and waste of our money. Day your sentenced is day executed
Then quit locking ppl up for everything unless they're a murderer, career criminal or violent offender
Another AI robot
A well done piece!
Pay them like you pay police officers.
Hey maybe if they paid more than 35k a year you wouldn't be in this problem.
If only you put that $31 million dollars into your staff, you would have staff to staff these prisons!
It is way too easy to become incarcerated in our Country. Only violent offenders should be in State Prisons.
I totally agree
But what about provokers?
The real problem is sending ppl to prison for nonviolent offenses
Aren't we having a real problem right now with shoplifting and other crimes of opportunity like that. In my city they actually go into stores 20 at a time steal stuff and run out, your solution would be?
Maybe pay the guards more than 17$ an hour and you will get more applicants
Other states pay 80k a year or more
Exactly. You can go do warehouse work and make 17 an hour. The problem is the pay, I don't see how they don't understand that. Should be automatically 50k start, with a 20 year pension. You would have people lining up in droves.
Who would want to be a CO ? It's not worth it!
This sounds more like moving money around to pay back the donor class. Like a shell game per say, except moving the money around under the shell.
When you put so many people in prison you have to deploy your military to run them then you are a third world country. your citizens should be more afraid of your police than they are the criminals.
Everything in America is starting to look dire!!!
That job has a extremely high turnover rate. You have to offer high wages or they'll quit..80k a year is about right
Join the guard to become a guard in the prison system
The question is how many of these prisoners are wrongly convicted and the number of inmates who should have received State probation instead of prison time. This does not even cover the inmates who pled no contest out of fear of harsher sentences. In 2006, a news anchor reported " it is being widely reported that the State of Florida has a conspiracy to violate civil rights." End quote. The state of Florida is ruthless when dealing with the population. Collier county sheriff's department is notorious for escalating their in counters with the public. Ruthless people!
So? That was 2006.
@@CandiceMMartinez 2006 is when I saw the female news anchor report. However, nothing has changed so far, but I get the feeling that in the near future, it will be all over the news. A lawyer once told me that their will be a great flood. We the people are sick and tired of the Florida corrupt cops and rouge judicial system.
Maybe try reducing the prison population there's a thought
Why don't you report the real problem with Florida Prison System?? Because of the "legal" slave ring, the Florida Dept. of Corrections has been running for decades. FDOC needs non-violent offenders to work outside the gate! This is why Florida's prisons are overcrowded. There are too many people in prison who should be in the county if at all. Violent offenders can not work outside the gate, so Florida fills its prisons with nonviolent offenders. This way they have many slaves to choose from.
Florida prisons are built on old plantations let that sink in
Okay. Then release people that have petty crimes. Our greed backfired.
U need to pay more
They can do this but not send them to protect are borders
Not only crap pay but also dangerous. No wonder they're quiting plus don't forget that they get treated like garbage
This is a great way to release people cuz there is a lot of people shouldn’t be there
I know, and some who should be in there shouldn't be serving a ridiculous amount of a sentence.
As a prior CO in the state of Texas, this is a dangerous move. So let's put our service members at risk. Smdh!
Gotta pay people to risk their lives every day. Bottom line.
Maybe embarrassing that they're calling the national guard to help but at least they're smart enough to call the national guard to help
This has been a long time coming.
This is not right the national guard is for protecting the nation not filling in for prisons
Enlist today, you can staff a prison or sub for a teacher! Maybe you’ll be unpaid border patrol (Texas)
Fill our shortages, be a veteran and compensate for our budget shortcomings!
Actually when we get deployed...we actually make tons more than border patrol 🚓 and more than doc
Wait a minute, is it a defund or a refund, I didn't quite get that.?
That's what happens when you don't pay them enough. Who would want to take that job anyways. No thanks
Stop putting people in prison for stupid crap
I agree like car accident that are actually accidental
I did contract work in California State Prisons and needed an escort. I asked the person what work they did normally. "Tell inmates 'No.' No you can't do that. No you can't go in there."
Besides the work I was doing, me & my crew were visual entertainment from boredom.
What do you expect from a state that relies on tourism money 💰
Type to release inmates not incarcerated for serious crime.
Back in 1976 I join the Marine Corps Reserve with the understanding that I could be called up for defense of the country or to assist in national emergencies like natural disasters. I would not have joined if I thought I would be used as a low cost government employee because they don't want to pay higher wages. I can't image many young people today willing to put their life and career on hold for this purpose.
No one joins the military to be a governor's slave
@@inoginoino wait to you find out what the national guard does
private prisons should use their profits from things like commissary to beef up security
In Florida you can be sent to prison for driving with a suspended license, so maybe they should stop making minor legal infractions a reason to send people up the road
If the bathtub is over flowing why not turn off the tap.
We need better laws. Not big prisons.
it's been that way for years. even 20 years ago. I was a state CO for 10 years.
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
Same problem here in NC. Underpaid staff.
Prisons are a business!
When a nation jails like no place else, you have a crisis, 2023 is the year of all dangers. Let's go B
State issues let’s go dumbass
Simple stop incarcerating citizens on minor offenses. Employ ankle monitors so people can be at home to support their families. Elemimate the felony designation permitting hardships for infractions to discriminate against hiring, housing etc.
Don't break the law then 🤡
If they criminals they not support there family
@@SabreVellerium fuck the law its desinged to keep you scared, you're a sheep
Very true.... they need to get officers that really want to do that job
PAY MORE!!!
Before you pay more they need to get AT LEAST a 2 YEAR degree to work in corrections and a 4 year degree to be a police officer… just my opinion. 💚🤙
Wanting to do that job -- is going to get a significant percentage of people who will abuse their position and authority. Certainly not all corrections officers are that way, but a significant number are.
Stay safe soldiers! Love you all.and prayers 🙏
We have the largest prison system in the world. The average FREE american breaks the law 260 times a year. I hope you accidently get locked up sometime because I believe thats what it takes for americans to wake up to this prison horror
I would like to see what their top crime for imprisonment is
Minor drug.offenses
@@kingjah6420 that's funny I just looked it up it said 14% for drug crimes and 56% for violent crimes.
Maybe my stats are wrong please share your data source
In Scotland the reason why they build walls around prison is to keep people from getting in for a holiday especially with gas and electricity bills are up 120% and food prices going up every week
WOW I didn't know it's that bad I went from paying $1000 a month in rent to $1800 and no one seemed to think that was a problem unreal I have worked since I was 15 years old and proud of everything I've managed to get through in life and never had to ask for any help these past few months I've had to get money from charities even though I work full time as a teacher I don't live in fancy apartment just safe and clean I don't go out or spend money on fancy things I never have but used most of my retirement and 401 to make it threw pandemic and all the price increases it's sad all the money I saved for all these years is gone I'm 56 and now have cancer my insurance sucks and I pay a lot out of pocket I mean when does it end when do decent people who've done right paid taxes always worked when do we get help I'm sorry you are struggling I am going to read and be more aware of situations in your country Be strong because we don't have a choice big hugs
@@kimberlybenton1286 I worked for fifty years long hours low pay because I paid into a works pension I get less of a government pension than someone who couldn't be bothered to get off their arse and get a job my age 70yr old
@@kimberlybenton1286 find a way to make money in your off-time, doesn’t have to be much at all just a few thousand a year extra and it will give you a lot of breathing room,,I was feeling exactly the same as you mine went from just under 1000(abt 970) to $1300, started a side business with a coworker that’s unrelated to our corporate field and we’re both very thankful for doing so!!
I did more or less weekly prison and jail ministry, after about 16,18 years I figured they need to execute about 20% of them. They are so spoiled and immune to the punishment of incarceration and usually get out and do the same crimes, all while ruining the men that would just go to jail, do their time and never return to jail. For sure government has done their best and volunteers help but the inmates are so used to going back and regaining their health that no laws or programs can fix it. The only hope is individuals getting miracle revelation that their life can get better
You’re no minister
If you are, you had ZERO business in there ZERO!
@@eboyd2478 Brother, and I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, you ever seen a guy get raped and the other guys just mind their own business? Ove happened upon it 3 times over the years. Kinda like horses, real quick. But what do I know? I'm not trying to be ugly, I'm talking pg to this site
@@gumecindogarcia1070 Wait hold on. You happened upon it. Did you also just mind your own business or did you do something about it?
@@billyperry3059 25 years of visiting prisons and supporting people that go also. But I figured if I go to Biker bars I might catch some guys before they get serious charges and end up in prison. So yeah I try to be part of the solution. Like President Bush said at 911, "volunteer for something. Well I figured I was on track about 14 years ahead of his request. Hope that answers your question
They need to start making police work In corrections for their first 5 years. Full time for the first year part time for the second year and x amount of hours per month for the next 3 years. It'll help teach them where people go when they make up things, and or jail people who don't deserve to be. We lock up entirely too many people in this country. It's become one of the biggest cash cows for the rich and politicians
I did ten years & this warms my heart to know that the fldoc is failing so miserably
Why should we be feeding these criminals. Death penalty immediately
TY for reporting on this. I pray it brings relief to those being tortured in there. I'm grateful my son was delivered to our door & he is home again. He is starting to put back on weight & tremors from med abuse have nearly ceased after tapering him down from overdose of med I told Psychiatrist he had negative side effects from in the past. I pray others can be rescued.🙏
My son was released From Appalacia prison in the panhandle.
Within 2 weeks was found drowned in a canal in West Palm Beach.
It seems someone didn't want him talking about what went on especially the drone drug drops. He had his bottom teeth punched out on an order of one of the Deputies for mouthing off. He had been transferred out of Santa Rosa after an attempted rape in the bathroom. He was kept in solitary for almost 3 months for not answering the warden's questions. They were trying to get him to admit to gang membership which was absurd because all the gangs were either Latino or black and he was neither.
I pray your son has an easier time of transition.
Torture is def real in FL department of corrections
Stop jailing people cuz the cops don't like what they say or how they look
Ok...🤣🤣🤣🤣. Let's not arrest murderers n rapists. Gotcha 🤣🤣🤣🤣
'Police State'
@@mitchmccin1583 cringe with those emojis and a lot of people are arrested for petty crimes
Absolutely no one is in prison for that lol
People need to remember that the courts do not send people to prison for light offenses. Many prisoners are given several chances to reform themselves before going to prison. Prison is a rough place to be, a rough place to work. There are no easy answers, but it's important to have professionally trained guards who are competitively compensated. The state has neglected this for many years.
Let the small low time low level inmates out ,quit sending them back for minor issues like dirty UAs for pot or alcohol unless they have committed a actual crime this would help financially and population control...
We need the national guard!
@james grant we need less people commiting crimes
I'm sure private contractors will move in and exploit the system. When has THAT ever happened?
Isn't that against the law for them to be active against United States citizens and our own Homeland they're not supposed to be used for that am I correct
Wow how about doing same for our schools . Protect our kids
That's just stupid bro!!
@@Emeritus75 Whats stupid? using the National Guard to guard schools while kids are in class
One answer, PAY MORE
Why is no one aware of this in Florida?
Convert to Islam
I'm in the national guards i would love to help out
Thank you
@@lotheco welcome
Bless you and keep you safe.
Who the fuck joins the national guard to be a CO. Wake up the military is being overused in Florida, go figure 🤡
Just bring back public hangings for smaller crimes like theft and such. They'll either stop or die and not as many prison guards are needed.
@james grant hey convict, your 2/3 of an opinion are noted. Now quit crying every time someone suggests to kill convicts.
The national guard is at the service of the governor. It's not federal. But if the prison (s) in Florida are private, then they need to hire more folks with acceptable pay.
Private prisons are not an issue whatsoever the government just loves to shift blame, they’re the ones who okay and allocate funds to pmc and private prisons in the first place. Privately held prisoners makeup around 5% of all FL inmates, maybe they should impose and income tax on folks making upwards of 150k and pay gov workers more
The safety of the public????? lmmfao!!!!
Hell look at the risk and the pay who the hell gonna risk their lives for a 1000 every two weeks after taxes bs
Who "wants" to be a prison guard?
I've developed so much more respect for the NG over the past several years.
The problem is not only the salary the problem is the inmates run the caps they have far more rides than the correctional officers! When they are right are far greater than those who go there to protect the public, the staff is abused the inmates are never punished and inmates don't have to follow the rules! Not only are they working 12-hour days you never get a reward as a staff member to feel like you have assisted any inmate in correcting the behavior that brought them there! This has continually gotten worse through the years. You don't have discipline for the inmates only for the staff! They are not a team because the upper echelon divides the staff to secure their jobs because of the rules they have to follow. Staff the upper echelon and the regular Co are afraid to implement the rules that have been set forth in years previous. Few bad apples and the barrel has ruined it for the state of Florida being able to do their jobs as it should be done. Don't abuse the staff, don't abuse the inmates but inmates should be made to comply with a different way of living without violence. It is a tremendously horrible place to have to work. All females need to come out of the Men's prison and man out of the women's prison. And they need to be trained to be a team. So many of those inmates are there because their families couldn't stand them anymore. But yet they will complain and bellyache about inmate rights, inmate rights. They are not mistreated, they mistreat the staff and the state make sure of that. Don't believe me get you an inside job in a prison and then come back and report on it. Perhaps even the secretary or the governor and 10 journalist need to learn the real reason they have to call the National Guard in. It's because the staff has to work in such an abusive environment they cannot tolerate it anymore, they don't work but two three months and they see they can't handle it then they really shouldn't have to. People who have gone to prison deserve to be there for the most part you may have one or two innocent ones in there you may have 10 or 20 but the other million in there are guilty. But the State of Florida has become so lenient on the inmate rights and what can be said to them and how they can be treated until anyone working in that environment is being abused it is horrible! Don't respond to me just go check it out for yourself.
Well said. I posted on here with similar points. I remember when that one bitch Secretary, that came over from DMV around 2011 or so, started to ruin things. Like thinking changing our uniform colors from brown/tan to black/blue was TOP priority...🙄
I don’t see a Karen Johnson employed by the Florida Department of Corrections.
@@jester9159 I'm sure that person owned or a family member owned the authorized uniform distributor. 😉
@@capeman10 Dude, I'd have no doubt. Another example, back in the early 2000's, the company Aramark was contracted out for the state's food service/cafeteria stuff. The governor at the time was Voldemort-looking Rick Scott who, from what I heard back then, his wife owned A LOT of stock in Aramark.
Write much Karen?
There is big money in human warehousing, it's a very profitable business$$$... And what is sad is, some non-violent inmates put in with an absolute predator animal. It's easy to say"probably had it coming'!!!(that's b******* you tell yourself)
How about stop putting people in prison come on vacation leave on probation Florida?
Don't get locked up, problem solved. You're welcome.
Shut it down let the Feds move in. Or release emergency gain time credits.
The issue is that there aren't enough officers to inmate ratio. On a daily basis in the prison system, there are fights, deaths, threats, and so much more that officers have to deal with. They risk their lives and deal with more in a day than most understand. When you deal with this stress and risk consistently, you should not only be receiving reasonable pay for the risk but also the expertise you must have to hold this position. They aren't given the proper pay, safety, resources, funding, or respect as police, army, or even teachers are given. You can guarantee that any of the military that is being sent to the prison is being paid more than these officers for doing the same job. These officers need to be given more support to target these issues.
you have seen to many movies. CO's are not getting attacked daily like you say is happing and that is a fact. be fair but firm and guess what you wont have a issue as a CO
Just close half of them down and let all the low offenders, problem solved
Keep the guard!!!