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| Corrections commissioner would get power to fire or reassign all prison employees for year |
| By greenfieldreporter.com- Jeff Amy |
| Published: 04/01/2015 |
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JACKSON, Mississippi — Lawmakers are moving toward giving Corrections Commissioner Marshall Fisher the power to reorganize his department and fire any employees without regard to civil service protections for one year beginning July 1 Senate Bill 2804 raised objections in the House, passing Tuesday by a relatively tight vote of 62-57. If senators pass the conference report as expected, the bill will move to Gov. Phil Bryant for his consideration. House and Senate negotiators stripped out earlier House-passed provisions that would have limited Fisher's power to only 100 central office employees and would have forced the department to pay guards overtime instead of using compensatory time. Fisher has said that, with shrinking prison numbers, he needs to transfer employees from prisons to community-based corrections positions. Read More. |
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