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| Officers hired amid budget mess |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 12/09/2008 |
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ILLINOIS - Just weeks after Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced hundreds of layoffs because of the state budget mess, his administration hired 208 prison [officers] who don't have a prison to guard, The Associated Press has learned. The Department of Corrections hired the employees for the Thomson Correctional Center in October at a cost of $10.8 million for their first year of work, according to a review of state records. They were supposed to provide security at the prison in northwestern Illinois for inmates being transferred from the Pontiac prison, which Blagojevich has said he'd close to save $4 million a year, a Corrections spokesman said Monday. But the Pontiac prison is still open because of a lawsuit filed by union officials on behalf of employees. And the Pontiac mayor says his city was "duped" because corrections officials promised jobs for most of the displaced workers. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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