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| State corrections employees passionate, dedicated |
| By helenair.com - Bob Anez |
| Published: 06/04/2013 |
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Almost eight years ago, I came to the Montana Department of Corrections as someone who had watched and written about state government for nearly a quarter of a century. I thought I knew how government worked. I thought I knew state employees, why they do the work they do and what motivates them. I thought I knew about corrections. But the years as a corrections employee have been about learning what I really didn’t know. I learned that state government is a challenging place to work. Despite the best efforts of employees, government gets a bad rap as a waste of taxpayer money, laced with agencies that stockpile money in slush funds without regard for need or purpose. Some citizens, and particularly legislators, see government as only a consumer of tax dollars and not a provider of benefits and necessary services. Some seem to believe that departments are in some sort of competition to grow their budgets more than the other agencies and that success is measured in the number of dollars in a budget rather than the effectiveness of programs. Read More. |
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