Audit: Prison Safety In Minnesota Suffers Due To Guard Shortage
(WorldNews Sport)

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The safety of inmates and staff at Minnesota’s state prisons has suffered due to chronic shortages of correctional officers and a corresponding reliance on having existing officers work overtime, the Office of the Legislative Auditor said Wednesday. The audit was prompted by a spike in assaults by prisoners against staff that peaked in 2018 but has since declined. Those incidents included a fatal attack against a corrections officer at the Stillwater prison in July 2018....