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The province says it has begun training 144 new correctional officers to beef up staffing at the province’s jails.
According to the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, the 144 recruits are part of the largest class ever to enter the Ontario Correctional Services College. The recruits will undergo an eight-week program which the ministry says includes mental health training, inmate management techniques and an assessment and evaluation.
Graduates who successfully complete the program will be deployed to provincial jails beginning in March, the ministry said in a release Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services could not immediately say how many of the new hires might be placed at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
The announcement of new recruits comes just days after the province and its correctional officers narrowly averted a strike Saturday with a last-second labour agreement. The new contract eliminated a provision the provincial government had previously sought to freeze the wages of new correctional officers for the next two years.
Correctional officers have complained that provincial jails are dangerously understaffed. That has resulted in a record number of lockdowns this year at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
In December, the province posted six new correctional officers at the Ottawa jail, but local union president Denis Collin warned that those hires weren’t enough and would be needed just to replace correctional officers who were leaving or moving into new positions.
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According to the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, the 144 recruits are part of the largest class ever to enter the Ontario Correctional Services College. The recruits will undergo an eight-week program which the ministry says includes mental health training, inmate management techniques and an assessment and evaluation.
Graduates who successfully complete the program will be deployed to provincial jails beginning in March, the ministry said in a release Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services could not immediately say how many of the new hires might be placed at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
The announcement of new recruits comes just days after the province and its correctional officers narrowly averted a strike Saturday with a last-second labour agreement. The new contract eliminated a provision the provincial government had previously sought to freeze the wages of new correctional officers for the next two years.
Correctional officers have complained that provincial jails are dangerously understaffed. That has resulted in a record number of lockdowns this year at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
In December, the province posted six new correctional officers at the Ottawa jail, but local union president Denis Collin warned that those hires weren’t enough and would be needed just to replace correctional officers who were leaving or moving into new positions.
aseymour@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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