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OH: Prison employees escape layoffs due to $59 million to prisons from stimulus bill

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison employees escape layoffs Monday, April 6, 2009 11:00 PM By Alan Johnson THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH In today's eroding economy, this is news: The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction will not lay off 500 employees. The agency that runs 30 state prisons said as recently as late February that it would be forced to make deep personnel cuts affecting 500 union and non-union employees. Many are in central office operations in Columbus, while others are in prisons around the state and include parole officers, chaplains and prison case managers. However, prisons chief Terry Collins sent a letter to all employees on Friday informing them that there would be no "massive job abolishments or reductions" at this time. Collins said the budget appears to be "tight but manageable...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 07, 2009 (boomark / email).