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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice mentioned Friday he’s ending the state of emergency over staffing within the state Division of Corrections.
The Republican governor known as on the state Nationwide Guard to assist cease employee attrition on the state’s jails and prisons nearly two years in the past now. Final summer time, the emptiness price was greater than 30%.
“We’re simply all the time proud to run to the hearth,” Gen. William E. Crane, Adjutant Common of the West Virginia Nationwide Guard mentioned throughout a briefing with the press Friday.
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Simply over 730 members of the state Nationwide Guard labored in 17 of the state’s correctional services whereas the state of emergency was in place, Justice mentioned.
FILE – West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice speaks at an election night time watch social gathering on the governor’s mansion in Charleston, W.Va., on Tuesday, Could 14, 2024. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice mentioned Friday he’s ending the state of emergency over staffing within the state Division of Corrections. (AP Photograph/Chris Jackson, file)
Since January 2024, nearly 240 individuals have graduated from the state’s corrections academy. A complete of 38 Nationwide Guard members assigned to work within the jails and prisons determined to remain on completely, Crane mentioned.
Final summer time, state lawmakers met in a particular session to approve over $21 million for correctional officer pay will increase, together with two one-time bonuses of $2,294 for different jail workers who will not be correctional officers, like kitchen workers.
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Justice beforehand declared a state of emergency for the state’s jails and prisons in 2017.
