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10% pay hike for Texas prison guards approved - will TYC follow suit?

By Gritsforbreakfast

The Texas Board of Criminal Justice approved a 10% pay hike for new prison guard hires at its meeting today in Austin, reports AP, boosting starting pay and eliminating what is currently the third salary step for COs, meaning guards will get pay increases faster:The changes, effective May 1, will boost salary of a starting officer from $23,046 to $25,416 and compress seniority requirements to allow new officers to achieve higher pay grades in fewer months. In addition, the agency will be offering a recruitment bonus of $1,500 for new officers who go to work at state prisons considered understaffed. Typically, about 20 of the 106 prisons fall into that category. "Our correctional officer staffing situation is the most urgent operational challenge we face as an agency," Department of Criminal Justice Executive Director Brad Livingston said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).