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ST. THOMAS GETS 10 NEW CORRECTIONS OFFICERS

For the first time in almost five years, a group of new corrections officers was sworn in on St. Thomas Wednesday.
The 10 men and women formally became Corrections Bureau officers at a morning ceremony presided over by Judge Rhys S. Hodge, himself the Territorial Court's newest judicial official.
According to Corrections Bureau assistant director Ewin Harris, the 10 completed a six-week National Institute of Corrections training and certification course. All will be assigned to the Corrections annex in Sub Base, he said.
Attorney General Iver Stridiron recently announced his intention to hire 42 new corrections officers for the territory, in large part to meet the staffing needs of the recently expanded Golden Grove Correctional Facility. The St. Croix facility is in the process of receiving 90 V.I. prisoners who have been incarcerated on the mainland.
Harris said the guards sworn in on Wednesday – Larry Amey, Hermon Bell, Orvin Clarke, Lionel Fahie, Maurice Foy, Carmen James, Carol Jones, Elise Moore, Rochelle Perryman and Elvis Weekes – are not a part of that plan.
"These are not the officers he was talking about," Harris said. "We're talking about hiring an additional 42 officers. We're presently going through the procedure of interviewing candidates."
Of that additional group, he said, 12 more guards will be assigned to St. Thomas, and the other 30 others are expected to be assigned to Golden Grove.

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