
Credit to TKC readers on this one . . .
This concern isn't political instead offers PRACTICAL advice and experience about the facility that is proving controversial.
Check the EXPERT word that should stand out over partisan chatter . . .
Tuesday night, Bill Rogers held up the 2-inch-thick report and urged city commissioners to read it before deciding on CoreCivic’s proposal. He explained that he had been a guard there from 2016 to 2020 and described violence against guards and inmates.
“The things that I seen and experienced, nobody should have to see or experience,” Rogers told the commission.
“Many of the closures occurred at posts CoreCivic had identified as ‘mandatory,’ meaning they were required to be filled on each shift in order to run the facility in safe and secure manner,” the release read. “The vacancies also led LDC managers to reassign staff who were not correctional officers to cover security posts instead of performing their normal jobs, sometimes to the detriment of detainee services.”
“How are they going to do it better?” Rogers asked the city commission. “And do you want to give them that chance?”
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
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