Department leader gets a $23,000 raise as NC prison officers flee because of low pay
RALEIGH — When Aaron Parson left his job as a prison officer last year, he was making $32,000.The income, he said, barely helped to support a wife and two kids. So when N.C. Department of Public Safety Secretary Erik Hooks received a $23,400 pay raise last month, Parson’s thought:”The people who run the prisons in Raleigh only look out for themselves,” he said.Hooks, who oversees a department of some 25,000 employees plus 11,000 National Guard soldiers, now earns $179, […]
