Comments on: New Florida Prisons Chief Wants More Money, More Oversight

By: what the hell

what the hell — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:39:45 +0000

Concern proud parent of two law enforcement officers why is it the inmates have all the right. Officers has no right Rick Scott need to give them a raise and get off his power struggle they putting their life on the line when they enter those gates they don’t stand alone God got their back..

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:19:53 +0000

The Florida Department of Corrections has an obligation to the citizens of the state. Its employees swore to uphold the law. Correctional officers have a primary duty of ensuring that individuals, proven to be felons by a jury of their peers, are SAFE and SECURE while they are incarcerated. Safety and security does not equal “happiness”.
Prison is not an amusement park. It is a place where felons go to be punished for crimes they chose to commit. Inmates have the right to be safe, fed, housed, and cared for if they are sick…..nothing more. The fact that they are given opportunities to learn and work is an added bonus.
The fact that the Secretary believes that correctional officers offer a “service” to inmates is disturbing.

By: cj

cj — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:01:40 +0000

If the comments were made – that the Corections Officers are to keep inmates happy, then that person needs to go back to school and get some common sense!

By: Einstein

Einstein — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:26:31 +0000

I have to post this quote from this idiot prison secretary that was in this article. Did I read it correctly? She said “Quite frankly, it’s a service. They’re there to keep them happy and they’re there to keep them healthy … and do it in such a way that they enter the facility in the same way that they exit the facility. And we’re not doing that.”
They are there to keep them happy. She needs to be fired.

By: RAM

RAM — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:52:16 +0000

Maybe if they would take the correctional officer’s out of the clerical positions and put them in the security positions they were hired to do and get paid for then they might not be so short. That would open positions for non-security personnel that doesn’t get the higher risk pay like the secruity positon does. This saves $$ in the long run….

By: John Johnson

John Johnson — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:02:44 +0000

Ponch:
“I don’t know who the bigger idiot is, him for hiring someone to lead an agency in a field they’ve never worked in and don’t understand, or you for accepting it and making some of the statements that were quoted in this article”.

He is..no wait..she is…no…he is…wait, wait..uhmmm…she is..that’s not right…

He is for hiring her!! It is amazing how certain State “employees” keep resurfacing.

So tired of this guy’s silly decisions on the folks that run certain State agencies.

By: Ponch

Ponch — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:23:44 +0000

Correctional Officers are not there to deliver a service to the inmate population, Secretary Jones. The service is to the tax-paying citizens of the state of Florida, to provide a piece of mind that the convicted felon that killed their parents, raped their sister, molested their child, sold drugs to their brother, etc. is safely locked away behind bars. Hopefully for that service, the victims or family of, may be able to sleep at night. There are services and programs within the prison that provide the inmates with certain necessities or privileges, but the State or the contractors provide those services.

Providing people with their identification cards and driver’s license is a service. That appears to be your field of expertise. You clearly have no idea what you are doing. Your boss is the genius that took all that money and positions away from the agency, and you’re going to ask for it back and tell him he was wrong?

I don’t know who the bigger idiot is, him for hiring someone to lead an agency in a field they’ve never worked in and don’t understand, or you for accepting it and making some of the statements that were quoted in this article.