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Audit questions corrections spending

By "eAdvocate"

10-9-2010 Illinois: A federal audit released Thursday questioned how the Illinois Department of Corrections spent half of a $2.2 million grant to help violent offenders adjust to life outside prison. The review also said there was no way to say whether the program succeeded because Corrections didn?t keep statistics on its participants, according to auditors, although one set of documents showed nearly half failed. The Justice Department?s inspector general took issue with $1.1 million in spending of the federal grant from 2002 to this year, including $708,000 in ?unallowable and unsupported payroll expenditures? to outside contractors. Corrections spent some money for unapproved purposes, can?t document how it used other funds, or both, auditors said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on October 09, 2010 (boomark / email).