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| Kansas battles pay-related turnover among prison staff |
| By kansascity.com- John Hanna |
| Published: 11/09/2015 |
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TOPEKA, Kan. Employee turnover at Kansas prisons has increased over the past five years, and the state's corrections secretary and legislators agree that officers' pay must rise if the state hopes to end a problem that's now seen as a threat to public safety. But a legislative committee's endorsement last week of higher wages for uniformed officers raises potentially contentious questions about how to pay for them. "We're looking at needing to put some significant money into this," Republican Sen. Forrest Knox, of Altoona, said during a corrections panel meeting last week. "We really see a looming catastrophe." But new, more pessimistic revenue projections last week forced Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's administration into budget adjustments to avert a deficit. The governor has ruled out further tax increases since he and the GOP-dominated Legislature raised sales and cigarette taxes in July to close an earlier shortfall. Read More. |
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