{"id":1639187,"date":"2022-09-12T12:19:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639187"},"modified":"2022-09-12T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:20:05","slug":"gov-desantis-activates-national-guard-at-florida-state-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-desantis-activates-national-guard-at-florida-state-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis Activates National Guard at Florida State Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgov-desantis-activates-national-guard-at-florida-state-prisons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639187&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-florida\">Florida<\/a> Gov. Ron DeSantis activated the state National Guard in a bid to aid corrections officers amid staffing issues at prisons.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Corrections\u00a0\u201cis authorized to employ over 20,000 correctional and correctional probation officers, almost a quarter of all state employees,\u201d the governor\u2019s order <a href=\"https:\/\/flgov.com\/2022\/09\/09\/memorandum-executive-order-22-213-activating-florida-national-guard-to-assist-the-department-of-corrections\/\">stated<\/a>, noting there is currently a \u201csevere shortage\u201d of officers that \u201cthreatens the safety\u201d of inmates, officers, and the public.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s corrections agency said that National Guard members will be deployed as a supplemental measure to security posts at some institutions. They will be supervised by respective prison wardens or similar staff, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think, as we continue to hire and reduce the stress on the compounds, the existing officers are going to want to stay because they\u2019re not going to work that amount of overtime they\u2019re currently working,\u201d Department of Corrections Chief Financial Officer Mark Tallent told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/state\/florida-national-guard-to-be-deployed-to-state-prisons\">WPTV<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019re going to have a better family life, be able to get out of the institution more. We definitely think we\u2019re trending in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Guard members will not be expected to directly supervise inmates, according to DeSantis\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of the Guard have the training and capability to assist Florida\u2019s correctional officers with certain duties, such as manning guard towers, perimeter patrols, and control stations, which will allow the correctional officers to concentrate on directly supervising and caring for inmates,\u201d the Republican governor\u2019s order said.<\/p>\n<p> Financial Incentives <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, DeSantis approved a pay increase to recruit and retrain current corrections officers.<\/p>\n<p>Florida National Guard Lt. Col. Peter Jennison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/2022\/09\/12\/florida-national-guard-deployed-state-prisons-staff-shortage\/8030718001\/\">told<\/a> the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper that he expects all the Guard members who are assigned would volunteer for the prison assignments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think we\u2019ll be able to right-size ourselves by the end of the fiscal year,\u201d said Tallent, adding that as many<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis activated the state National Guard in a bid to aid corrections officers amid staffing issues at prisons. The Department of Corrections\u00a0\u201cis authorized to employ over 20,000 correctional and correctional probation officers, almost a quarter of all state employees,\u201d the governor\u2019s order stated, noting there is currently a \u201csevere shortage\u201d of officers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}