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Updated: Friday, 08 Mar 2013, 8:59 AM EST
Published : Friday, 08 Mar 2013, 8:59 AM EST

Posted by: Emily Lenihan

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard announced that 12 people will be graduating from the Basic Correction Academy Friday afternoon. This is the second class graduating from the academy in an effort to help ease overtime and address staffing levels.

The State Commission of Corrections gave the county a deadline of September 2014 to hire 72 new jail deputies and supervisors, to ensure the facilities will be adequately staffed.

After graduation Friday afternoon, the deputies will be dispatched to the Erie County Holding Center and the Alden Correctional Facility where they will undergo approximately three months of extensive field training.

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