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DOC staffing needs and officer-to-inmate ratios in housing units
3:28:47
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Council Member Stevens inquires about the Department of Correction's staffing needs for housing units and the current ratio of correction officers to people in custody. A DOC official responds, highlighting the current staffing crisis.
- DOC is currently experiencing a staffing crisis
- The department needs approximately 1,100 additional officers to meet baseline staffing requirements
- The official notes that the question about staffing ratios is complex due to the fluid nature of the situation
Althea Stevens
3:28:47
Does the department require additional resources to adequately staff each housing unit?
3:28:52
What is the current ratio for CO to PIC per housing unit?
Sherrieann Rembert
3:29:00
That's a fluid question.
3:29:03
I'm
Althea Stevens
3:29:03
gonna try to Try best.
Sherrieann Rembert
3:29:04
I'm gonna try to take it as best as I can.
3:29:06
So currently right now, we we are at we are in a staffing crisis, and we're working through a staffing crisis.
3:29:12
So basically, to in order for us to to meet the baseline, we would probably need additional 1,104 offices on or about
Althea Stevens
3:29:23
maybe So, like, thousand and