State lawmakers approved the measure on Wednesday and Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is expected to sign it into law.
The bill establishes some rules for the younger guards, including policies that they cannot obtain or use firearms or transport inmates outside of prisons. They also must be supervised when performing “contact roles” with inmates during the first year-and-a-half on the job.
The push to lower the age for correction officers came after guards walked off the job in February while striking to protest poor working conditions. Hochul was forced to deploy the state National Guard to prisons to maintain operations during the strike.
The push to lower the age for correction officers came after guards walked off the job in February while striking to protest poor working conditions.
Fuck’s sake.
If the working conditions were poor, i could only imagine how the conditions were for the inmates 😶
I’ve got an idea. Why not let the inmates run the asylum?
Let the prisoners run the prison? Absolutely not.
Force the prisoners to fill the labour shortage? Well now you’re spreading their language.
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I know 18 is the age of majority and adult responsibility, but it’s both my observation and my personal experience that you’re not ready for that kind of responsibility until you have a few years of being an adult under your belt.
Their decision making abilities aren’t also fully developed and I can guarantee more prisoners will be harmed or killed when an 18yo guard feels threatened.
They won’t have guns.
The bill establishes some rules for the younger guards, including policies that they cannot obtain or use firearms or transport inmates outside of prisons.
Science - the actual, y’know, science - says the human brain isn’t fully formed until early 20s.
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This’ll go well
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Who goes for that job anyway? I know one guy who is interested in that kind of work and it’s the 8k bonus plus he thinks it would be easy. And they give the bonus to attract the desparate and money hungry because who goes for that job anyway? Who actually wants that job? Seriously?
People who likes dicks and buttholes. They never talk about the amount of strip searches.
My nephew is 17.5 years old and there’s nooooo fucking way he could be doing that shit effectively.
The turn over will be relentless I think.
