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Published June 21, 2008 01:39 pm - Some area county jails are experiencing a high turnover of deputy jailers. Among them is the Barren County Detention Center.

Work, pay affect jail turnover
Many use corrections work as stepping stone

By GINA KINSLOW
Glasgow Daily Times

Some area county jails are experiencing a high turnover of deputy jailers. Among them is the Barren County Detention Center.

In the past six months, the Barren County Detention Center has had six deputy jailers leave on their own and one was terminated.

Jailer Leland Cox said there is a high turnover for deputy jailers.

“We have a lot of people to leave for different reasons and not just because they don’t like the work here, or they don’t like the boss, or they don’t like the employees here,” he said. “There’s a lot of reasons why they leave.”

Stress is one of the primary reasons employees give for leaving.

“If you can’t take a cussing, you definitely don’t need to be in this job, because you are going to get one pretty regularly and some people just don’t handle it very well,” he said.

Cox starts all deputy jailers out as part-time employees. Doing so allows him to see if they are going to be able to handle the stress of the job before the county is out any expense for health insurance or retirement benefits.

“The national turnover in corrections is 38 percent,” Cox said. “So, four out of every 10 (deputy jailers) are not going to stay.”

Another reason why deputy jailers leave is the pay.

Compared to the pay of surrounding counties, Barren County deputy jailers are among the lowest paid with a starting salary of $8.75 per hour. Warren County deputy jailers start out at $10.66 per hour.

Next in line is Hart County with a starting pay of $9.18 per hour, followed by Barren County then the Monroe County jail at $7.59 per hour.

“We are one of the lowest-paid departments in the county system,” Cox said.

Warren County Jailer Jackie Strode said he can understand employees leaving for better paying jobs. Several of his deputy jailers leave to seek careers in law enforcement.

“We are a stepping stone,” he said.

Cox and Hart County Jailer Keith Riordan agree they do lose a lot of deputy jailers to law enforcement agencies.



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