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PA: Sign of the Times: City workers transferred from libraries to prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Philadelphia Library Closings, News, the budget crisis City workers transferred from libraries to prisons City Paper Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 4:35 pm posted by Isaiah Thompson Here's the good news: most of the municipa Free Library guards working at doomed branch libraries will be able to retain employment with the city, which has placed them in open positions. Here's the depressing news: Half of those positions are in the prison system. According to data provided by the Mayor's Press Office, nine municipal guards have been placed elsewhere in the city; of those nine, five will become correctional officers in the prisons department. The pay range for these officers' new jobs will be slightly higher: a maximum of $38,000 guarding prisons, up from $34,000 guarding libraries...continue to full post

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