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IDOC reps explain overtime, inmate population numbers
By wrex.com- Kelsie Passolt
Published: 03/27/2014

$60 million. In 2013, that's how much Illinois spent on overtime for those guarding criminals serving time, Department of Corrections workers.

Like employees in many industries, some corrections workers pick up slack, working overtime when others are sick, on leaves of absence or just off-site. It's actually a requirement, in the IDOC's contract with its staff's union.

"We will never leave a mandatory security post uncovered at any time." -says IDOC Communications Director Tom Shaer.

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