So now when we take an Inmate to Tri Cities this is a 77 mile transport for on duty staff. On a good day you can make the transport in 1.5 hours (one way). But I can tell you we have done transports on Friday afternoon, and staff tell me this doubles there arrival time.
A perfect scenario is that its just a drop off, and we go straight up and admit the inmate to detention. However, this most times is never the case, and our staff are there for more than 8 hours for ONE drop off.
Someone explain how this is saving money for the State. At a time when CIM is squeezing the overtime for mandated and required training, we most always spend the extra dough on a "sleep study" for an inmate!
I guess I should look on the bright side, it makes for a nice scenic drive down the coast, on the States dime!
I am by no means surprised. These are the typical ass backwards things that are done @ CIM. Never seek the logical thing to do, just do whatever comes easiest at the time. A TOTAL waste of time, money, and man power, in a time when cuts are happening! Like I said typical.
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WHO IS RUNNING THIS PLACE
ReplyDeleteAre you fortunate enough to have worked at least 27 years in your classification? Are you fortunate enough to be over the age of 50 and have survived all that the corrections world has imposed on you and your family? If you have answered yes, I want you to know that the CDCR is going through a phase called PUBLIC SAFETY REALIGNMENT.
ReplyDeleteWe all wake up each day of the workweek and know that we are headed into the world of prison, we leave behind a world we love, our world. A world of our loved ones, a world where our people exist in the comfort and safetey we attempt to help ensure. A world without being a victim. That world has changed. Our world has changed. Our family’s world has changed.
Starting October 1, 2011, the world we live in, in California changed. WE must now go through the world that has been set upon us and all of Caliornia. The world of PUBLIC SAFETY REALIGNMENT( AB 109). This world will bring many changes to all of California. This world will bring many changes to all civilians and to all California Correctional Peace Officers and their families.
There will be untold stress placed on crime victims, stress on all California Correctional Peace Officers and their families and yes even stress on convicted felons on their families. Most importantly in our family, our California Correctional Peace Officer family. The stresses we indure in the world we spend the majority of our waking hours have been multiplied an unmeasurable amount. It affects us in how we deal with our family, our partners, the convicted felons we supervise and with ourselves.
We are all members of CCPOA, an orginisation who’s purpose is to foster the professional development of the correctional series and to look after our own. Well, it is time we start looking after our own. How is your partner doing through all of this. Are they on the chopping block? Have you asked them how they are doing? Have you offered to be an ear to talk too? Offered to help with what our partners are going through this change? Have you offered to be an ear to listen to what our partners are going through? I know I am losing sleep every night worried about my brothers and sisters are going through. I struggle to find ways to mitigate cuts and try to help our partners find a way to get through this change in life. WE all must pull together and lookout for our own.
Ron Mason CORII