[cid2008]

My Husband And I Are Members Of The Afscme Union , He Is A Correctional Officer And Me A Nurse...the Union Lobbies Against The Privatization Of Prisons Due To The Decreased Quality Of Personel. The Requirements Are Not What State Requires...we Work Under Standards That Are Set By The American Correctional Association...and The Safe Prisons Act. Better For Officers, Nurses And Offenders. (or That Is My Opinion) Never Worked Private Prison.

[cscott1]

I have worked for CCA in a womens facility and am leaving due to chronic understaffing, lack of necessary equipment and bad management.
With staffing at a low, I have worked every weekend since Jan. This was done without even a phone call or any notice. We recently had a code without even minimal equipment.
All I can say is that I would not reccomend CCA as an employer.

[hippie4life]

I have worked for the DOC run prison system as well as privatized medical. I have worked for Prison Health Services and Correntional Medical Services. I was so not impressed. I love corrections and in my current state of residence we have only privatized medical. PHS and CMS were not so great but I must say CMS was worse. It is not the staff thay have but the way they treat them. They don't pay well enough this is for sure, and what one person said earlier is so true, they work short and expect absolutle loyalty from their staff. If they need you to work over time or at a different post, wheter your trained, feel comfortable in that post, or whether your child is sick, they just don't care. They need the job done and they are just not very concerned with how it gets done. I found this to be the case at upper management levels, not at the prison level. But this kind of upper level managment doesnt do much for staff retention. One of our prisons is run by CCA, they are not so great with their pay and they also work everyone on a shoestring. It is really too bad that these kinds of companies don't try harder to work with their staff.

[HM2Viking]

Corrections is a core governmental responsibility. I wouldn't work in a privatized correctional system.

The only way to fix the problem of poor pay and inadequate staffing is to aggressively pursue the establishment of a unionized private corrections system.

[uraqt2]

I have been at the same facility for 8 yrs now and I must say that I love where I'm at. When I first started there I worked for CMS for almost 3 yrs. and ended up leaving just before the pulled out. The pay was far less that what I currently make, benefits were minimal, and the management sucked. I went back into corrections a short 10 months later when the state took over and I can't imagine working for a privatized company again. The state pays far better than CMS did and much better benefits.