IDOC RAISES STAKES IN EFFORT TO ATTRACT MORE STAFF - WILL QUALITY SUFFER FOR THE SAKE OF QUANTITY?
On November 1, 2021 KQXR radio 100.3 FM in Boise, ID reported that the Idaho Department of Correction was now offering new employees a $1,500 signing bonus, a starting salary of $19.00 an hour and an annual retention bonus of $1,500 for up to 5 years. While the pay and bonus rates may well entice any number of applicants to apply to work at the IDOC, it is quite often the case that with an increase in quantity there is a corresponding decrease in quality. This is certain to happen here. The IDOC has been whining for more than a year they don't have enough staff to fill the positions left vacant by guards (and others) who have moved on. As has been reported on this site, many guards at the ISCC reportedly resigned because of the way the facility was being run by [then] Warden Jay Christensen. Though Christensen is gone, many of his policies and attitudes still exist - like administrators continuing to allow some inmates to do things which not only violate departmental policy - but g...