Corrections officers last received a 3.5 percent raise in fiscal 2011

Houston — The Houston Chronicle is reporting; faced with shortages of guards that approach 50 percent, Texas prison officials have begun transferring inmates from two Texas Panhandle penitentiaries to units elsewhere in the state.

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