A prison guard is not the same as a senior policy adviser, which is what the guy in the OP was. The guy in your OP had a position that takes hob-nobbing to reach. And a prison guard is definitely not making over six figures. So why are you trying to compare the two? Of course jails will hire shady dudes to be prison guards. I fully expect them to hire tough guys with rough backgrounds to deal with the dregs of society.
This all said, that is still NOT proof of affirmative action and that huffington post article you just linked says nothing about that. Actually its proof of a prison system lowering its standards for corrections officers because of having a dwindling applicant pool. Talk to some security guards or cops..I've heard quite a few mention not wanting to deal with prisoners all day. Do you know how hard it can be to find people willing to do what a correction officer does, dealing with what some of them deal with day-in and day-out, for an average income of around $45k? (click the underlined for stats)
Anyways, I repeat for the umpteenth time, there is no way in hell that people in power are going to let affirmative action force them to hire a minority or a woman to an power position with a high salary if that person has a poor employment record and a criminal history.
This all said, that is still NOT proof of affirmative action and that huffington post article you just linked says nothing about that. Actually its proof of a prison system lowering its standards for corrections officers because of having a dwindling applicant pool. Talk to some security guards or cops..I've heard quite a few mention not wanting to deal with prisoners all day. Do you know how hard it can be to find people willing to do what a correction officer does, dealing with what some of them deal with day-in and day-out, for an average income of around $45k? (click the underlined for stats)
Anyways, I repeat for the umpteenth time, there is no way in hell that people in power are going to let affirmative action force them to hire a minority or a woman to an power position with a high salary if that person has a poor employment record and a criminal history.