Nevada Director of Corrections Glen Whorton asked the governor for more money to hire 264 more corrections officers. That total would increase the number of corrections officers in the Department of Corrections by 20% and cost an additional $27.5 million over the next two years. That number is in addition to the $50 million the governor already suggested should be spent on the prison system over the next two year budget cycle.

Whorton says the corrections officers are needed to improve safety in the prison. He stated that when the prison population increased 15%, the number of crimes reported in the prison increased 113%.

This news brief is based on a story in the Nevada Appeal, Prisons need more staff to control inmates [1]. If the link is broken, check the newspaper’s archives.