Report Shows Nearly Half Of Correctional Officer Jobs In Philly Vacant As New Prisons Commissioner Announced

By Dan Snyder and Will Kenworthy, CBS Philadelphia

April 10, 2024 / 10:28 PM EDT

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- There is new leadership at the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. Michael Resnick was formally introduced as the new commissioner by Mayor Cherelle Parker on Wednesday afternoon.

The former city public safety director and acting prisons commissioner in 2016 walks into a department besieged by challenges from a federal lawsuit, serious understaffing issues, complaints about conditions behind prison walls and more.

"I am cognizant of the issues facing the department and the challenges that lie ahead," Resnick said at City Hall Wednesday.

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