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| Prison system leads state agencies for overtime pay |
| By apalachtimes.com- Mary Sell |
| Published: 07/06/2017 |
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MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Department of Corrections spent $26.6 million on overtime in fiscal 2016, and the short-staffed agency is on track to spend more this year. Corrections made up the bulk of the $42.1 million in overtime for state employees last year, a number that has ticked upward in recent years. “Alabama prisons are significantly understaffed with correctional officers, which results in a high rate of overtime to manage, at a minimum, three shifts for 24/7 operations,” DOC spokesman Bob Horton said last week. The correctional officer staffing at the state’s maximum- and medium-security facilities is at 42.8 percent and 59 percent at the minimum-security facilities, Horton said. Read More. |
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