Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Aug. 7, 2017
If you buy the pretty strong premise that the reason El Dorado Correctional Facility prisoners are acting up is that there aren’t enough corrections officers at the facility to maintain order, well, there are solutions.
Probably the best solution is relatively simple—pay the corrections officers enough that jobs at El Dorado become desirable. Might take a 20% pay raise which is about $20 million a year, or maybe just 10 % at half the cost, but money can probably fix this.