“We had horrendous understaffing in this department and something has to be done,” U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson said during a status conference Friday in the long-running lawsuit over prison health care.
The state has used pay raises and recruitment efforts to boost officer numbers, but has been hindered by a tight labor market, Bill Lunsford, a lawyer for the state argued. “It has kind of fallen off a cliff for lack of a better word. It has dropped from 1,800 officers down to a little over 1,300 in the last year-and-a-half … They are a lower number today than they have ever been,” Van Der Pol said.He said the tight labor market has many industries searching for workers and that that is a “difficult headwind” for the state’s effort to hire and retain staff. Increasing staffing has been a priority for the department, said Lunsford.
Alabama has the worse corrections in the world. Pay isn’t sufficient. Facilities are horrendous. Violence is high. It’s warehousing-not corrections.
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