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Oregon prisons face worker shortages as retirements loom
By spokesman.com- Whitney Woodworth
Published: 01/22/2018

SALEM, Ore. – With a staff of 4,700, the Oregon Department of Corrections is struggling to attract new employees as almost one-fifth of its workforce becomes retirement eligible in 2018.

Officials with the state’s second-largest agency said part of the blame rests on the region’s flourishing economy.

The employee market is similar to the stock market – it goes up, it goes down, said Steve Cox, workforce planning administrator with the corrections department.

When the economy is bad, people tend to flock toward jobs in law enforcement and corrections.

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