Tennessee boosts salary for prison guards to attract staff - Nashville Banner

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Tennessee boosts salary for prison guards to attract staff - Nashville Banner

Tennesseans watching the Super Bowl earlier this month might’ve noticed a local pitch in between the celebrity-stuffed commercials — come be a prison guard. The ad was part of the Tennessee Department of Correction’s effort to fill hundreds of correctional officer vacancies in short-staffed prisons across the state. Staffing shortages have been a problem in Tennessee prisons for years, and state audits have pointed to them as a danger to both pr…