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Help Wanted (in Prison): Texas Recruits High School Kids To Be Corrections Officers

Short on guards, the state hopes to attract students enrolled in career training programs once they turn 18.

News • 06.26.2023

Cadets Violently Strip Searched Us As Part of Their Training. For My Pain, I Got $325.

Willette Benford was one of several incarcerated women who sued the Illinois corrections department for using mass strip searches to train cadets. A small settlement check took her back to the shame and trauma of those incidents.

Life Inside • 05.06.2021

I Was Trained to Call Prisoners a Word They Hated

As correctional officers, we are conditioned to call prisoners ‘inmates.’ But at Sing Sing, where I worked for 25 years, that was as bad as calling them a snitch.

The Language Project • 04.12.2021

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