A dozen or so state corrections officers picketed along Highway 99 in Hazel Dell on Wednesday, demanding the right to call for state arbitration on issues of worker safety.
The informational picket outside a state community corrections office, one of 11 such events held around the state Wednesday, came in the wake of the strangling death of a prison guard by an inmate Jan.
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