More from the article ...

... This is one of the unintended consequences of the Trump administration's focus on mass deportations. For months, ICE has been on a recruiting blitz, offering $50,000 starting bonuses and tuition reimbursement at an agency that has long offered better pay than the federal prison system. For many corrections officers, it's been an easy sell.

Workers at detention centers and maximum-security prisons from Florida to Minnesota to California counted off the number of co-workers who'd left for ICE or were in the process of doing so. Six at one lockup in Texas, eight at another. More than a dozen at one California facility, and over four dozen at a larger one. After retirements and other attrition, by the start of November the agency had lost at least 1,400 more staff this year than it had hired, according to internal prison data shared with ProPublica.

"We're broken and we're being poached by ICE," one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. "It's unbelievable. People are leaving in droves." ...

I guess my first observation about this trend might be along the lines of ...

OK, so now, the correction officers who worked in prisons, who seemed to be willing to work for low wages so that they could control inmates, are now being recruited by ICE to control citizens?

@#3 ... Another good question, who is going to replace them? ...

Well, with conditions like this (from the article) ...

... And at some facilities, staff said the agency had even stopped providing basic hygiene items for officers, such as paper towels, soap and toilet paper.

"I have never seen it like this in all my 25 years," an officer in Texas told ProPublica. "You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper. ...

OK, now it seems to be more understandable why Ms Maxwell apparently has asked for, and was granted, an unlimited supply of toilet paper in her quid pro quo.