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DE Correctional Officers Hold Meeting with Commissioner

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There was a town hall style meeting yesterday held by the Delaware correctional officers and the department’s Commissioner Perry Phelps.

It comes a month after the inmate uprising at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in which officer Steve Floyd was killed.

WBOC reports that the media was barred from the meeting.

But the television station reports that the correctional officers’ union president Geoff Klopp said that Phelps had the support of his organization.

He added that this session would give members and the commissioner a chance to have a frank dialogue  about the February 1st hostage standoff at the Vaughn Correctional Center.

Klopp added that the staffing levels at the prison were lower than he had ever seen them resulting in facility not being safe.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.