PRISON LIFE THAT PAYS.

• Position: Correctional employee recruiting - Brief Article

The Kentucky Department of Corrections, fearing that the shortage of prison officers might force them to call in the National Guard to fill vacancies, recruited workers instead from rural areas, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. These new officers work three 13-hour shifts on successive days, sleeping for free in spartan rooms inside a tower over the prison. (If they want prison food, they can have that, too.) They then get to go home for four days. The $18,269-a-year job fails to get applicants from the more...