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December 24, 2006
CA: COs earn $220 million in overtime
NATHAN BILOW / AP
Seattle Times
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Nation Digest
Overtime at California prisons costly
About 6,000 California corrections officers earned more than $100,000 in the past fiscal year, thanks to overtime in the strained prison system, and one brought in more than $250,000.
Overtime added $220 million to the $453 million base pay for those prison workers, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. More than 900 earned $50,000 or more in overtime alone.
Overtime costs have soared since the officers' current labor contract took effect five years ago, the newspaper reported.
The biggest payout to a corrections officer for the fiscal year that ended in June was $252,570, which went to a lieutenant.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vowed to change the nation's largest prison system, which incarcerates almost 174,000 people in 33 prisons that were designed to hold 100,000.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003492872_ndig24.html
Posted by lois at December 24, 2006 11:53 PM