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WI: Guards use sick days to inflate salary. Some call in close to overtime shifts, reach 6-figure pay.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

JOURNAL SENTINEL WATCHDOG REPORTS Guards use sick days to inflate salary Some call in close to overtime shifts, reach 6-figure pay By PATRICK MARLEY Posted: May 3, 2008 Madison - October 2006 was a busy month for one Green Bay Correctional Institution sergeant. On every day he was scheduled to be off that month, he came in for an overtime shift. On two of those days, he worked double shifts. But within days of each of those extra shifts, the sergeant called in sick. In all, he claimed four sick days that month. That meant he got hefty paychecks because of overtime, but still had time off. That month wasn't unusual for the sergeant, who often volunteered for extra shifts. On 17 occasions in 2006 he called in sick shortly after working on days that he otherwise would have had off...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).