Washington state prisons look to hire former inmate at six-figure salary to help foster ‘inclusive culture’

A job itemizing for Washington’s Division of Corrections exhibits the state authorities is seeking to rent a previously incarcerated particular person for a six-figure wage to assist foster an “inclusive tradition” on the company. 

“We’re in search of teammates who share our imaginative and prescient of public service, dedicated to an equitable and inclusive tradition that fosters and conjures up excellence, whereas selling innovation, engagement, and security, main to raised outcomes for our incarcerated inhabitants, our company, and our group,” the job itemizing states below a piece studying “duties” for the place of “Director of Particular person-Centered Companies.”

“The best candidate is a diligent and bold particular person with lived expertise as a [formerly] incarcerated particular person,” the posting provides.

The job is a component of a bigger effort in Washington to “destigmatize” criminals, KTTH radio host Jason Rantz reported. 

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“The place is designed to deliver the voice of incarcerated people to the division’s practices, and that’s the reason somebody with that lived expertise is most well-liked,” a DOC spokesperson instructed “The Jason Rantz Present.”

The job pays anyplace from $108,636 as much as $133,044 a 12 months, along with advantages. 

If employed, the worker would “function a senior member of the company’s Government Management Crew and supply direct oversight of varied strategic initiatives with the purpose of working to proceed to scale back recidivism and enhance the reentry of incarcerated adults.”

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A aircraft flies overhead the King County Correctional Facility in downtown Seattle. (Reuters/Lindsey Wasson)

The job itemizing doesn’t specify if sure prison backgrounds would preserve a candidate from the job, with the spokesperson telling Rantz the place is open to all former inmates, not matter what crimes they dedicated.

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“There isn’t essentially a prison background that may preclude somebody from being thought of. DOC will be certain that whoever is employed is totally vetted,” the DOC spokesperson mentioned. 

The House Needle and Mount Rainier are seen on the skyline of Seattle on Feb. 11, 2017. (REUTERS/Chris Helgren)

Rantz famous that an individual’s felony file doesn’t matter a lot for the applying course of anyway, citing the state’s Washington Honest Probability Act. The legislation took impact again in 2018 and prevents private and non-private entities from asking candidates about their potential prison histories till after they’re deemed certified for a job. 

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Fox Information Digital reached out to the state’s Division of Corrections early Thursday morning however didn’t instantly obtain a reply.