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Guard pay, 2 TYC units snubbed in budget

The Statesman's Mike Ward has a couple of budget updates that will interest Grits readers:Prison guards get 3.5% raiseTwo TYC lockups on closure list, againBoth these are half-a-loaf solutions. Prison officials last year said they needed a 20% pay hike to solve their understaffing crisis, so one supposes this amount won't do much to fix that problem in the near term. This the Legislature telling the prison system it doesn't care if they have too many prisoners and not enough guards. "Tough it," is the implied retort.Even so, emphasizing how costly the bloated prison system has become, even this much more modest raise will cost taxpayers an additional $120+ million; actually fixing the problem would have cost around $ 1 billion over the biennium...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).