Low nursing pay
Re “Prison pay hikes drain staff at state hospitals,” Jan. 26
The nursing staff at state mental hospitals is drained too. Because of low wages, there is a chronic shortage of nursing staff at Metropolitan State Hospital. I work 64 hours a week because the hospital can’t recruit qualified nurses and psychiatric technicians. Staff shortages can’t be blamed on the prison system but on our chronically low wages.
MARK TACKETT
Anaheim
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