{"id":309635,"date":"2014-08-04T18:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=309635"},"modified":"2014-08-05T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T23:05:13","slug":"rusk-county-jail-deals-with-staffing-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=309635","title":{"rendered":"Rusk County Jail Deals with Staffing Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/thumb_sheriff-ruskcounty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/thumb_sheriff-ruskcounty.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_sheriff-ruskcounty\" width=\"109\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-309636\" \/><\/a>HENDERSON &#8212; The Rusk County Jail may face staffing issues before too long.   A ratio of one correctional officer for every fifty inmates is required by Texas law.  In order to comply, the jail will only be able to hold a maximum of 140 inmates at all times &#8212; about half the jail&#8217;s full capacity.    Finding new employees is proving difficult.   Officials tell KETK too few qualified applicants are applying for these positions &#8212; and they may have to start housing inmates outside the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON &#8212; The Rusk County Jail may face staffing issues before too long. A ratio of one correctional officer for every fifty inmates is required by Texas law. In order to comply, the jail will only be able to hold a maximum of 140 inmates at all times &#8212; about half the jail&#8217;s full capacity. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=309635\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rusk County Jail Deals with Staffing Concerns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 19:49:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309637,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309635\/revisions\/309637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}