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Teachers, case managers taking security shifts in Colorado prisons as 28% vacancy rate fuels staffing crisis

The staffing shortage means corrections officers are working 16-hour double shifts more than once a week

The Buena Vista Correctional Facility.
RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post
The Buena Vista Correctional Complex.
DENVER, CO - NOVEMBER 8:  Elise Schmelzer - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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More than a quarter of the approximately 8,000 jobs in the Colorado Department of Corrections are vacant as the prisons struggle to recruit and retain corrections officers, teachers, case managers and health care providers.
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