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Article: Correctional officers: support, commitment and ethnicity.
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- Corrections Compendium
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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It is no secret that the corrections field has historically experienced high turnover among its officers. According to an article published in Corrections Today, the average turnover rate among correctional officers nationally in 2000 was 16.1 percent, up from 12.6 percent in 1995 (Lommel, 2004). In some states, the turnover rate among Correctional officers is much higher than the national industry average; Arizona, Idaho, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia are just five examples.
According to a January 2006 interview with the director of Arizona's Department of Corrections, "Turnover has been in the 25 percent range for a long time, and it is higher than that now. ...