Finance & Budgets
Effective finance and budget management is critical for the smooth operation of correctional facilities. This directory offers articles and resources on budgeting strategies, financial planning, and resource allocation within the correctional system. Understanding how to manage finances and budgets helps facility administrators ensure that funds are used efficiently and that essential programs and operations are adequately supported. For more insights into funding, explore our section on Corrections Grants.
The Pintler Meadows development will provide 25 homes for Department of Corrections employees, with rent later applied toward down payment assistance
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The site would add to the capacity at the state’s first detention facility, built at an isolated airfield in the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”
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
An Ohio jail is no longer accepting inmates because a bill for jail services hasn’t been paid
Officials agree on extra funds to boost employees’ pay and deal with overcrowding, but some are unhappy with the strings legislators have attached to the new funds
Sheriff said he wasn’t willing to continue operating a jail “that is not funded to meet the minimum standards required” or to stand by while more staffers are laid off
Sheriffs are asking for a $4 increase per inmate per day to the rate they are paid to house around 18,000 prisoners
Wisconsin’s current $16 per hour salary for COs falls well below the regional average of $22
The increase comes as the state struggles to hire and retain prison workers
Some 800,000 federal workers have had to work without pay or have been kept from doing their jobs
