Ontario Continues Building Correctional Workforce

TORONTO, Ontario — The Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services on Jan. 29 announced plans to recruit 180 new correctional officers to work throughout the province. The new group of correctional workers will help increase staffing levels, enhance program delivery and improve overall staff and inmate safety, according to a statement from the ministry.

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Iowa Students Create Haven for Correctional Staff

AMES, Iowa — Thanks to a group of Iowa State University landscape architecture students, and Assistant Professor of landscape architecture, Julie Stevens, Iowa Correctional Institute for Women (ICIW) staff members no longer have to take their work stress home.

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Protecting Correctional Officers With New Trauma Shield

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Harding Tactical Systems Inc. (HTC) of Vancouver, BC has announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with the American Correctional Officer (ACO) and the American Correctional Officer Intelligence Network (ACOIN) to supply the HTS Trauma Shield to officers publicly employed at correctional facilities in the United States.

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