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December 09, 2008
PA: Sign of the Times: City workers transferred from libraries to prisons
Philadelphia Library Closings, News, the budget crisis
City workers transferred from libraries to prisons
City Paper
Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
posted by Isaiah Thompson
Here's the good news: most of the municipa Free Library guards working at doomed branch libraries will be able to retain employment with the city, which has placed them in open positions.
Here's the depressing news: Half of those positions are in the prison system.
According to data provided by the Mayor's Press Office, nine municipal guards have been placed elsewhere in the city; of those nine, five will become correctional officers in the prisons department.
The pay range for these officers' new jobs will be slightly higher: a maximum of $38,000 guarding prisons, up from $34,000 guarding libraries.
Still, there might be drawbacks. According to the job description, the correctional officers' work "involves regular exposure to unpredictable conditions and occasionally requires the expenditure of physical effort in the restraining and subduing of prisoners."
I'd rather guard a library myself.
http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/clog/2008/12/08/city-workers-transferred-from-libraries-to-prisons/
Posted by lois at December 9, 2008 09:55 AM