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...Captain Elias Garcia, a correctional officer who was also photographed by JR, admits he thought it would be “a logistical nightmare” in what is a highly regimented institution....
...In the 1990s, as its prison population soared, Louisiana offered to pay sheriffs a per diem rate to house state prisoners in their jails. Over time, business boomed....
...When two convicted murderers escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York three years ago, it took 1,300 officers 23 days to catch them....
...True, Theresa May’s administration has launched a recruitment drive to boost the numbers of prison officers by 2,500. It is also building large-scale prisons to replace cramped Victorian-era jails....
...Last month, South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services decided G4S had “lost effective control” of the Mangaung prison, accusing the company of using “uncertified security staff to perform custodial...
...“Fresh food is scarce around here,” says Victoria Granderson, a 42-year-old prison officer and a mother of two, as she worked away on a cob of corn....
...But the scale of the Katrina disaster seemed to have overwhelmed her....
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