Finance & Budgets
The Finance & Budgets topic features news and expert opinion on monetary issues within the prison system — from advice on how to manage shrinking budgets to financial planning for corrections officers.
“The state needs to do more to support the correctional officers and civilians that walk into these facilities every day to help keep us all safe, not overcrowd them or shut them down,” State Assemblyman D. Billy Jones said
Allegheny County Jail inmates will receive monthly payments of $125 for the first six months of 2024
The union said 115 staff members would be affected by the closure of Larch and that the majority accepted positions at other DOC facilities or state agencies
The money is coming from dollars already allocated to the department, but hasn’t been spent yet due to vacancies
If leaders and elected officials in your area aren’t already discussing furloughs, layoffs or hiring freezes, they are likely to begin those discussions soon
Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he wants to shut down two of the state’s prisons, but hasn’t yet identified another institution for closure
CDCR officials said the state would save about $182 million a year by shutting the Tracy prison
The policy change has raised questions about how the department plans to inform the public about safety matters
The group’s proposed budget would allocate $60 million of that money from the sheriff’s office toward housing
The financial terms will be disclosed when the deals are final, which the Ivey administration expects to be late this year
Officials said all future layoffs will depend on the county’s financial situation
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The Legislature has approved three raises for correctional officers since last receiving a survey on their pay in 2015
The decision by Gov. Mike Parson’s administration to stop withholding dues from bimonthly paychecks has slowed worker contributions to a trickle
The six-month project, which will focus on three counties, will include a 10-year examination of jail population trends
The move has left the Missouri Correctional Officers Association with a funding shortfall as it continues to negotiate a contract for 5,000-plus guards and sergeants
One way the department reduced costs was to impose stricter limitations on what work qualified for overtime
The contract, which includes eight of the city’s uniformed unions, guarantees members a roughly 8% pay increase across the life of the deal
Budget constraints have forced the sheriff’s office to lower expenses by reducing the number of available beds by almost 250
The appropriation was made in response to a judge’s ruling that mentally ill inmates must be allowed to leave their cells four hours a day, at least five days a week
If the companies had decided to close their halfway houses, the current residents likely would have returned to jail or prison
Union members said they were frustrated by Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to not release funding that included money for retaining COs and providing raises
In all, about 2.5 acres of the Maine State Prison grounds are being used to grow vegetables to feed the prison population, the COs and the community during the growing season
The bank announced Monday it was ending its relationship with GEO Group and CoreCivic
After paying a company to recommend a replacement for its software system for tracking and managing information on inmates, the system has yet to be replaced
CO say the pay increase is long overdue and may not solve all the issues that the department is facing
The council unanimously approved $9 million in pay increases for corrections officers and other staff
Recent court rulings say $118 million awarded to COs for unpaid work cannot be enforced
62% of overtime paid out by the state in 2017 and 2018 came from the Department of Corrections
“The people who run the prisons in Raleigh only look out for themselves,” a former CO said
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