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| Audit released on Oregon prison staffing |
| By statesmanjournal.com - Peter Wong |
| Published: 07/27/2012 |
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As a state panel begins to look at rising corrections costs, an audit released Thursday says the Department of Corrections is unlikely to find big savings in how it staffs its prisons. The audit examined personnel and overtime for the staffing at two prisons — both outside of Salem — and concluded that they were well managed. “The auditors went through several years of scheduling decisions with special attention to all the places where savings might be found,” said Secretary of State Kate Brown, whose office issued the audit. The audit was issued the same week as members of the Commission on Public Safety heard about rising corrections costs during the past two decades, when Oregon’s prison beds more than doubled to the current 14,000. According to information presented to the commission, the average daily cost of housing an inmate during the current two-year budget cycle is estimated at $82.48, up 32 percent from $62.24 a decade ago. The actual daily cost varies by institution. The current figure was prepared by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States. It excludes $11.84 per day for management and overall system costs and $11.01 per day for debt service and construction costs. Read More. |
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