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| Largest share of overtime spent on corrections |
| By Providence Journal |
| Published: 08/06/2007 |
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CRANSTON, RI — The Department of Corrections graduated its largest class of new correctional officers last December. Sixty-nine fresh officers reported for duty on Christmas Eve day. And for their first eight minutes on the job, the new state employees were paid overtime. By contract, the short briefings that occur prior to every shift’s roll call are paid at time-and-a-half. It is one example of how overtime is as much a part of the Adult Correctional Institutions as razor wire and white bread. Last week, The Providence Journal examined salary and earnings — including overtime — in all 24 departments counted as part of state government. The Journal obtained salary and earnings lists from the Department of Administration to take a closer look at the cost of state government as state leaders have been debating laying off state employees and privatizing some state jobs. The Department of Administration reported that the state spent $76.7 million in overtime in calendar year 2006. Workers in two agencies combined for more than half of that overtime: $20.6 million or 27 percent used by the Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals; and $23.9 million or 31 percent paid to workers at the Department of Corrections. Ellen Alexander, assistant director of administration for the corrections department, questioned that figure Friday afternoon. Corrections records are kept on a fiscal year basis, she said, and department records show that in fiscal year 2006 — from July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006 — the department spent $17,528,000 in overtime. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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