... staff, is another difficulty forthe department.
OSP, for example, lost more than 30 percent of the new staff hired in fiscal 2007 in that year.
The retention issue is even more serious forthe private ... prisoners, the nature of their offenses
or the lengths of their sentences in a timely manner. Since the demographics and criminal history
of these offenders are unknown, they cannot be factored into the ... date the current forecast has been steadily underestimating the actual prison population. As of
November, the forecast was over 600 inmates above the actual prisoner population. The reason(s)
for...