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IL: Blagojevich hires 208 guards with no prison to guard

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Chicago Tribune Blagojevich hires 208 guards with no prison to guard Tribune staff report December 9, 2008 Associated Press SPRINGFIELD ? Just weeks after Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced hundreds of layoffs because of state budget woes, his administration hired 208 prisonguards who don't have a prison to guard. The Department of Corrections hired the employees for the Thomson Correctional Center in October at a cost of $10.8 million for their first year of work, according to a review of state records. They were supposed to provide security at the prison in northwestern Illinois for inmates being transferred from the Pontiac prison, which Blagojevich has said he'd clos eto save $4 million a year, a corrections spokesman said Monday. But the Pontiac prison still is open because of a lawsuit filed by union officials on behalf of employees...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 09, 2008 (boomark / email).