Corrections officers have become so difficult to hire and retain that robots may end up doing the job
“I did 40 years in law enforcement but I couldn’t have done 40 minutes in a correctional facility,” said Nevada Assemblymember P.K. O’Neill, a Republican who is open to the drone proposal. “It’s a very, very difficult job to do.”
Corrections officer isn’t the only job that’s difficult to fill in prisons. There’s a major shortage of medical staff and social workers, which limits what services and programming is available to the people serving out their sentences.
The platform — called “Overwatch” — would allow prisons to “fill in the blanks where we don’t have enough staff,” Nevada Department of Corrections Director Charles Daniels told state lawmakers when briefing them on the proposal this summer. It’s a surveillance plan being pursued in Nevada after prison officials traveled to a police department in Arizona that’s utilizing the same approach on a smaller scale.
Still, prison leaders stressed that the current staffing situation is untenable and a new approach is needed.
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