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Cooks, nurses guard inmates with US prisons down 6K officers

by Michael BalsamoMichael R. Sisak
| May 21, 2021 3:33 AM

Nearly one-third of federal correctional officer jobs in the United States are vacant, forcing prisons to use cooks, teachers, nurses and other workers to guard inmates.

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