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It’s not a job that most people consider. Growing up, people play cops and robbers, not convicts and corrections officers.

Chris Gautz, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections, on the state's struggle to hire people to work in prisons and jails.

Chris Gautz, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections, on the state's struggle to hire people to work in prisons and jails.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.