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Is TYC's central administration too top heavy?

If youth inmate levels are down, asks Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, why has the number of administrators gone up? And why are TYC administrators so highly paid? From the Houston Chronicle this morning, we see this story ("Bureaucratic ranks swell at TYC," Sept. 8):From its headquarters in Austin, 368 administrators oversee the state's juvenile correctional agency, 47 more than early last year, when TYC had 4,000 offenders in its lockups, nearly double today's number. As the offender population has dwindled ? the result of a new state law that closed the agency to offenders ages 18 to 21 and offenders sentenced on misdemeanors ? the total cost of paying all those employees has risen by nearly a quarter, to $18.7 million a year...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 08, 2008 (boomark / email).