The SOA/DOC has created a very Hazardous Condition within its facilities that increase the risks of serious injury and death to both inmates and staff. This is in direct conflict of DOC Mission statements:
According to the State of Alaska, Department of Corrections, the Mission & Vision is:
The Alaska Department of Corrections provides secure confinement, reformative programs, and a process of supervised community reintegration to enhance the safety of our communities (Corrections, Alaska Department of Corrections, 2017).
We are trained professionals committed to a safe, open and respectful organization. We are dedicated to public safety and will always respect the rights and dignity of victims of crime. Offenders in our charge will be
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Officers who are left with lack of sleep, lack of departure from the job, lack of time off, and lacking personal time are at greater risk of accidents, injury, and liability due to the stressors of the job and interaction with the socially unstable, mental handicapped, aggressive, and assaultive inmates.
The failure of the Department of Corrections to abide by or even attempt to align “suggested” and determined manning to prevail makes each facility hazardous to inmates and staff alike. With this said, it stands to reason that when the State of Alaska, Department of Corrections allows a known hazard to exist and persist, while a risk assessment has been accomplished and given to the State of Alaska in the form of a “CGL Analysis”, the state had been placed on notice (CGL, 2016).
To combat this continued hazard, it is proposed that every event that an Officer is “Held Over”, “Ordered into Mandatory Overtime”, “Refused a Requested Leave”, or “Ordered to work on a shift that is Undermanned according to the CGL Analysis”, the Premium Pay that will include “Hazard Pay” will be calculated for every hour worked in that