SC prisons workers’ checks lose 1st furlough day

The five furlough days for some officers and non-security staff come on top of another five days they were already required to go without pay

April 02, 2011 04:22 AM

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Some employees with South Carolina’s prison agency are seeing the first effects of a furlough package used to cut down a $7.5 million budget shortfall.

Corrections Department spokesman John Barkley says agency employees will see the first of five furlough days reflected in their paychecks Friday.

In February, Gov. Nikki Haley said Corrections had eliminated a $7.5 million shortfall by combining $2 million through unpaid worker furloughs with $5.5 million from lower medical and workers’ compensation insurance costs and keeping open jobs unfilled.