June 15, 2008
Riverside County Sheriff’s Department pushes to increase its ranks
The hiring campaign involves a series of tasks that must be completed by different county agencies — each pressed with tight schedules — so that the new employees can be in place when the county opens a new, 1,200-bed hub jail in 2012. Some of the new workers also will be assigned to the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning, which will be expanded by almost 600 beds in late 2009 or early 2010.
Even if construction is completed on time and Coz can pull off the planned $12 million expansion of the Ben Clark center, it still might be difficult to find enough qualified candidates…
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