evidence: During my travels this year at different county and state correctional facilities I was informed correctional officers are leaving the job in large numbers. The main complaint was consistent: "Our supervisors do not care about us or back us up." While speaking face to face with supervisors and frontline staff I have concluded that the morale problems in any facility is a two-way street. The finger-pointing must stop and working as a team must begin now. [...] I teach classes around the country and get to talk to many of our correctional staff every week. I hear the recurring theme of "burnout" so much that I am naming 2023 as the "Year of Correctional Burnout." I have spoken to staff who have worked three, four, or even five double shifts in one week. The amount of sick leave usage is up and the "shift pizza party" has become a joke. [...] Recruitment efforts at facilities nationwide are taking innovative and unprecedented strategies to identify, qualify and prepare individuals to meet the challenge of the most chaotic and at times dangerous careers available. Increased salaries, sign-on bonuses, retention bonuses, recruitment stipends — money initiates the interest but marketing the culture, the service opportunity and career potential for corrections and law enforcement is required to close the deal.