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Audit chides Georgia prison spending
By chronicle.augusta.com - Walter C. Jones
Published: 04/23/2012

ATLANTA -- State auditors say the Department of Corrections should do a better job of keeping track of its maintenance costs.

The Department of Audits & Accounts investigated how Corrections spends its $39 million maintenance budget when two-thirds of the work is done by inmates in a study requested by the legislative appropriations committees. Its 28-page report shows that many of the 29 state prisons use outdated software, inconsistent work-order classifications, and some prisons don’t capture necessary information.

The lack of information makes it difficult for Corrections officials to make decisions about equipment replacement or the effectiveness of workers.

Corrections didn’t deny things could work better.

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