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UPDATE: Committee votes to cut 60 Wisconsin prison guard positions
By nbc15.com
Published: 05/20/2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Sixty tower guard positions in 10 Wisconsin prisons would be eliminated under a vote by the Legislature's budget committee.

The Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee on Tuesday went along with Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to reduce third-shift tower guard staffing. The cuts will save the state about $5.9 million over the next two years.

Department of Corrections officials say anyone currently filling those positions would be moved into other vacancies.

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