Alabama Department of Corrections Continues to Add More Officers
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Recruiting new officers remains a top priority for the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Ninety-one new officers graduated Thursday morning at the Criminal Justice Training Center in Selma and joined the ranks of the state’s largest law enforcement agency.
DOC officials say recruiting and training new officers is a big part of the effort to improve the prison system.
The graduates completed 12-weeks of intense academic and physical training — and are now certified law enforcement officers.
Chance Webster is one of the new graduates.
“Everybody can’t be a corrections officer,” he said. “I just think it has a great future, huge ladder as far as going from, starting from just a regular correction officer, they have supervisors, wardens, commissioners, you can go so far up the chain.”
Alabama currently has one of the highest inmate to officer ratios in the country at about ten to one.
