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And while this is good news for the guards bank accounts, it s also bad news on account of job stress, say critics who maintain state prisons are woefully understaffed. One guard told me that staffing at his prison has been cut from 76 to 36 over the last five years, and that his unit turned in more than 1,200 hours of overtime in February alone. But while a new prison should help to ease overcrowding at some of the state s four dozen facilities, it remains to be seen if it will solve the understaffing problem. Any solution is likely to be short-term, given this country s growing incarceration rate. If you have a username and password, Log In here.