Can anyone offer some information or suggestions on where I might find Correctional Officer Staffing Standards. Like most of your agencies and departments, my DOC is in need of a staffing readjustment. I'm doing the research for one of the Assistant Commissioners to try to justify a request to increase staffing levels. This state has suffered a documented increase in inmate on staff violence over the past two yeas and two officer deaths at the hands of inmates since January 1, 2006. The logic of the Officer to inmate population ratio doesn't seem to go very far here so we are looking at other ways to make the point. Are there any of you who enjoy mandatory staffing levels based on population, square footage of facility, security level, etc... I would love to hear form you!