By: Sumit Majumdar
How Consolidating a Crumbling System Will Pay for Itself, Save Taxpayer Dollars, and Rescue a Burnt-Out Workforce
In the public discourse surrounding the American justice system, the spotlight is almost always fixed on the incarcerated. We talk about inmate rights, overcrowding, and the systemic failures of the “inside.” These are necessary, often heartbreaking conversations. However, a massive shadow is cast by that spotlight, hiding the human beings standing on the other side of the bars—the correctional officers (COs) and deputies who clock in every day to manage a crisis they didn’t create…