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Escambia County Hiring 50 New Employees To Staff New Correctional Facility
February 1, 2021
Escambia County is currently hiring for 50 positions to staff the new Escambia County Correctional Facility that is slated to open this spring.
The county is hiring correctional officers, detention assistants and medical professionals for the new facility. For more information on how to apply, click or tap here.
Open positions in Escambia County Corrections and the number of positions available as of Friday are:
- Corrections Officer (Certified) — 5
- Corrections Officer Trainee/School — 20
- Detention Assistant — 18
- Emergency Medical Technician — 1
- Licensed Practical Nurse — 3
- Paramedic — 1
- Registered Nurse — 2
Available benefits include health, dental, life, vision, employee assistance program, flexible spending, long-term disability, legal services, vacations, deferred compensation, retirement and other voluntary insurance products.
For more information about the new facility and a photo tour, click or tap here.
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12 Responses to “Escambia County Hiring 50 New Employees To Staff New Correctional Facility”
@ Mike
That was my intended spelling for the illiterate and the spelling police that have no more to do than find fault…no literal or original thoughts.
Look in the mirror prima donna .
What an obtuse individual !
lol @david mathmagicians? sounds interesting! you have no clue how spelling works!!!
You guys are mathmagicians, business managers, counselors, whiners and complainers.
You have no clue how the system works.
We dont have jobs,,you complain, we have jobs..you complain.
Complain about how much a job pays…means you are lazy and want free money.
Those EBT cards must be nice…free everything..
Thanks for the education on how to run a county…which is a business.
Thanks to those who want to work and being thankful.
This pay is an embarrassment. Not to mention the president trying to raise wages to $15.
@ Willis:
Corrections Officer (Certified) — $16.63+
Corrections Officer Trainee/School — $15.12
Detention Assistant — $11.64+
Emergency Medical Technician — $13.75+
Licensed Practical Nurse — $16.63+
Paramedic — $17.96+
Registered Nurse — $40.28+
Keep in mind that a student or non-certified Correctional Officer is being paid to attend the training Academy and the cost of the school, state certification test and uniforms are being paid for by the employer.
When you add the perks of insurance and retirement to the pay plan — not many of our local employers still offer these perks with the small out of pocket expense to the employee.
State of Florida employees, go to this job. FDOC is dying and telling lies. Go to the county. Better treatment, better pay and less lies. FDOC is telling you eight our shifts will work. They are lying this has never worked in the past and it won’t work now. Nothings changed. I know, 20 plus years with the state personally. Eights don’t work for families!!
Jason your so in tune, how far off would I be if I said they’ll pay nearly $15 hrs.
Roughly the same as staying home and saying you can’t find a job
Lets correct some information:
Neither the ECSO or the Gas company were at fault for the explosion that destroyed the old jail facility. At the time of the explosion that Board of County Commissioners were in full control of the jail facilities. In fact, Sheriff Morgan had warned them in writing about concerns of continued flooding of the facility and the BCC ignored the warning. Additionally, no one from the maintenance section or the jail ever contacted the gas company about the gas smell.
This new facility does not have the capacity to hold the number of bodies that were once held by the old facility destroyed in the explosion. As such, the jail will be at or near full capacity — if not exceeding capacity — once it opens.
Florida Statute 318.18 outlines how penalties assessed for a traffic ticket is dispersed. You will find that vast majority of what is collected is NOT returned to the local level as general revenue.
Court fines that are assessed are generally returned to some degree to court operations. However, in most criminal cases these fines are often reduced to liens and seldom collected. One of the reasons why “general revenue dollars” must still be budgeted for court operations versus it being funded by user fees.
The same can be said for the dollars collected from those of probation status.
The daily subsistence fee or fees for provided services are returned to the general fund to offset the cost of jail operations. IMHO, these fees are cheap cheap cheap and should be raised in order to cover more of the “user costs” associated with jail operations. Just because a fee is charged, doesnt mean its collected. Like court fines, these fees are often reduced to liens.
If you arrest 50 misdemeanors a day, each pays 900 fine plus 1 year of probation at 50/month, you will have 140 million in 5.5 years. Without looking at booking fees, rent paid by inmates per day to get underwear and shirt for court. Without considering those on probation longer. Without the traffic citations.
With a REAL Law Enforcement Officers as Sheriff Simmons and Chief Deputy Lyter wonder if the ECSO will be “gifted” the Jail by the Escambia County Commission?
Feel that this new facility will be at Max Occupancy almost immediately.
County really needed to buy that entire block then tear down that grubby old strip mall and build a larger jail and have the surrounding area for county offices and facilities. Yes, even the “counselors” could be onsite. Guess certain BOCC folks could have pushed that thru if not bending down for special interests.
Hmmmmm didn’t see social workers on that list.
THANKS TO OUR ECSO / GAS folks the GOOD People of ESCAMBIA had to PAY for THIS