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$1,500 Recruiting Bonus for New Correctional Officers
Effective August 1, 2011

Bonus Eligible Units

• Connally

• Dalhart

• Lynaugh/Ft. Stockton

• McConnell

• Smith

• Stiles

View the map for the revised bonus eligible units.

Who is eligible to sign a Bonus Contract?

• Full-time COs who were newly hired or graduate from the academy on or after August 1, 2011

• TDCJ retirees who rehired as full-time CO after 90 calendar days of retirement from TDCJ, or

• TDCJ former employees rehired as full-time COs after one year of separation from TDCJ.
  

What are the terms?

• You must be eligible to receive the recruitment bonus.
  

• You must sign a contract agreeing to work at an understaffed correctional facility for one year from the date of bonus payment.
  

• You must repay the bonus in-full or partially if employment with TDCJ ends before one year from the date of bonus payment.

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Page update: 12/06/2011

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