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| Captive to costs: Inmate, staff figures drive overtime for state prisons |
| By pantagraph.com- Kurt Erickson |
| Published: 05/28/2014 |
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SPRINGFIELD — The cost of paying overtime to employees in the state's prison system topped $60 million last year, more money than it takes to run many of the state's agencies. The entire Illinois Department of Military Affairs, for example, costs about $55 million to operate. The Department of Insurance has a budget of about $53 million. According to reports from Illinois Auditor General William Holland, the last time prison overtime costs came close to the 2013 figure was in 2009, when the state paid out $53 million to guards, nurses and other front-line employees who worked more than 1.2 million hours beyond their normal shifts. Read More. |
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