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Florida Prisons Chief: Status Quo 'Unsustainable'

“The pair of proposals includes a $60 million retention-pay plan for correctional officers and a $29 million pilot program that would convert one third of the state prisons’ 12-hour shifts to 8-hour work days. Under the agency’s proposed retention-pay plan, correctional officers would get a $1,500 pay increase after 2 years of service and a $2,500 increase after 5 years of work. The hourly shift changes, which would be more costly and are expected to be a contentious part of union negotiations, are more complicated, Inch admitted.“

Sunshine State News

October 17, 2019

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Understaffing, Prison ViolencePhillip ReevesSunshine State News, FloridaComment
New stats show surge in violence at Rikers Island

“Violence between inmates surged to 69.5 incidents a month for every 1,000 people in the jail population during the 2019 fiscal year, from 55.8 incidents the year before. Serious injuries in those attacks also jumped, from 2 to 2.5. Inmate assaults against staff jumped to 12.6 for every 1,000 detainees, up from 9.2 in 2018. Use of force by correction officers against prisoners jumped nearly 30 percent, from 5,175 incidents in 2018 to 6,670 in the most recent fiscal year, which ended in July.“

Politico

September 17, 2019

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Prison ViolencePhillip ReevesPolitico, Rikers IslandComment
Over 1K inmate fights went unreported in city jails: DOI

“The city’s jails failed to report more than 1,000 inmate fights over a three-month span thanks to their “unreliable” system of tracking violence, according to a damning report from the Department of Investigation. The seriously flawed reporting process not only hides the violence in city jails from the public, but it also puts inmates and staffers at risk, according to the report.“

New York Post

April 16, 2019

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Prison ViolencePhillip ReevesNew York City, New York PostComment