Comments on: In Depth: Proposed Budget Would Bring Changes To Florida’s Prison System

By: Chris Pennington

Chris Pennington — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:53:45 +0000

The 12 hour shifts are great. I worked those in the Military in Germany. Called the Panama schedule & we got a 3 day wk end off, which is excellent when you have families. Little ones especially. FDOC is suppose to be family oriented, what happened?? As far as the raises…EVERYONE SHOULD GET AN ACROSS THE BOARD 2.5% or more. You have a lot of good Officers–this is how you thank them and….all employees. When you “cherry pick” who you’re giving a raise to…that is a slap in the face and causes GREAT animosity. You have someone who has been here for 15 years and hasn’t gotten an increase for over 5 years, when everything is going up and then you get this “rookie” with no experience, coming in making more with a promise of a raise in 2 years. What is that??? Disrespect to all of us that have endured.

By: Chillywilly

Chillywilly — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:02:02 +0000

Ron. Desantis. Is. Just. Restoring. What. Rick. Scott. Cut. And. Gutted. Politics as usual. They. Ran. All. Their. Experienced. Staff. Off. Department. Of. Corruption. Inmate assaults an officer. He gets a. Displanary. Report. And. Confinement. An officer. Gets accused of. Assault. He gets. Outside charges. Rick Scott. Ran all the. Experienced. Staff off. And. Privatized. The. Prisons. To. His political donors. Unbelievable. Incompetence

By: CCI Wife

CCI Wife — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:07:52 +0000

As a wife of a CO in Century. I am with the guards that want to stay on 12’s. So many reasons why. What I do not like is that after working a 12 hour shift, there are times that they are told that they have to stay – so a 12 hour shift leads to a 16 or 18 hour shift. Then by the time they get home, get some rest (just a couple of hours) they are back at it again. Keep them at 12’s and not a minute later.

By: The weak

The weak — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:59:06 +0000

Fight the 8 hour shifts, they suck and for you new staff say goodbye to your families and buddies. Your getting weekdays off for the next 10 years. Hey but they say eights will fix the world. I guess they think we are complete idiots to buy this crap. And then they say smile and accept it. Straight bull_ _ _ _ . And the raise is a slap in the face. County bound!

By: Dumb

Dumb — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:00:15 +0000

When they tried going to 8 hour shifts a year or two ago they had us because the economy wasn’t the best and we had more senior staff with more to lose. Our legislators are idiots to try it now. Economy is great and we have a young group of staff with nothing to lose and plenty jobs out there waiting. They just put their intelligence level out there for everyone to see. Sit back and watch this catastrophe. The education level of the people running the state is astounding. NOT!

By: Dedicated

Dedicated — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 02:58:37 +0000

Eight hour shifts means bad days off unless you got serious time in. Put me In for a demotion and that’s if I even stay. I might pack up with everyone else that’s leaving and searching for other jobs. I got kids that enjoy seeing me on the weekends. Family first, Job second. Although the state will tell you otherwise.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 02:14:21 +0000

In the meeting the officers we told the pay increase would be 2000 and 4000 for over five years now they have changed it again I guess 17 million for a P. E coaches is not important than giving officers a decent pay raise after almost nine years without one

By: Almost a good idea

Almost a good idea — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:04:51 +0000

All this sounds great except for the staff that had to rearrange there life when we went to twelves and now the state is selling fake statistics in order to try and get us to go back to eights and rearrange our lives all over again. 80 to 85% of the staff at century are against eight hour shifts. Keep your eight hour shifts century don’t want them. To my brothers and sisters actually in the trenches keep up the fight against this political nonsense our lawmakers are trying to sell. And by the way eight hour shifts have been tried and failed miserably, give us the staff and 12s will work better than ever.