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		<title>Florida prison chief: State losing corrections staff to ‘Wal-Mart,&#8217; creating insecurity in system</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[More than three-quarters of Florida&#8217;s corrections officers have less than two years’ experience. In some state prisons, a single CO will be left alone to supervise 150-200 inmates in a jail block. Contraband has become so bad, one random search of (just half) a Dade facility turned up $15,000 in street value of cocaine, seven knives, 46 cellphones and an array of other drugs and illicit materials, said Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones Thursday. The state&#8217;s prisons chief was in&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rick Scott calls for widespread pay raises for corrections officers</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gov. Rick Scott is looking to give Florida corrections officers a pay raise, including $38 million for the state’s prison system in his proposed budget. Mary Ellen Klas of the Miami Herald reports that the increase, part of the budget Scott will announce Tuesday, is for “officers up to and including the rank of captain.” Also, Scott wants to offer a $1, 000 signing bonus to new officers at certain understaffed prisons, and boost pay for officers at prison mental-health&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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