St. Louis holds a job fair to expedite hiring correctional officers and address public safety staffing issues.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The job vacancy rates in the state’s regional jails are getting worse. State Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) Chief of Staff Brad Douglas told a group of state ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s prisons, regional jails and juvenile justice facilities are in a “constant mode” of recruiting, hiring and training, according to Joe Thornton, secretary of the ...

Missouri ranks just behind Mississippi for the lowest-paid correctional officers in the country. The average annual pay for a correctional officer in Missouri was $30,870 in 2017, according to the ...