For the first time in at least six years, the corrections officers positions at the Morgan County Jail are fully staffed.
“We’ve been down single digits maybe twice in my six years,” said Morgan County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Alan Host. “The rest of the time we’ve been down double digits, anywhere from 10 to 35.”
Host said they have 15 corrections officers (COs) and two supervisors for each of the four shifts totaling 68 corrections officers. He said it takes a special kind of person to be a CO…