Detention Officer - Detention Officer CoreCivic Employee Review

1.0
May 17, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay and benefits. San Diego pay that is.

Cons

Staff shortage, mandatory OT, lack of compassion from upper management, lack of HR support, no leadership, everyone walks on egg shells, upper management tries to find ways to fire officers. Promote younger officers. No raises for the skills and knowledge a veteran officer demonstrates on a daily basis. A new officer will get paid the same. They do the minimum to get by until there is an audit. All of a sudden a post has the right amount of officers on audit day. Basically, no support whatsoever. They care about the shareholder not about the officers....I have more....There is no strategy to keep officers. Most officers use them as a stepping stone to go elsewhere. They care more about the inmate or detainee. Upper Mgmt lacks qualifications or education.

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CoreCivic Response
8y
Thank you for your feedback and your years of service. Your comments are heard and I am sorry to see that you have left the company. The cost of turnover is certainly of concern to the shareholders of the company as we are publicly traded, but more immediately by leadership as turnover represents a loss of skills and competency.

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