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MA: Some at Bristol jail got boost in pension. Sheriff?s hires gained windfall

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Some at Bristol jail got boost in pension Sheriff?s hires gained windfall By Andrea Estes Boston Globe Staff / March 9, 2010 ed as a part-time, on-call pharmacist for the New Bedford Board of Health, making $2,200 a year. Then, in 2001, he took a $77,000-a-year pharmacist job in the office of Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. After working exactly three years - public retirees? pensions are based on their top three years? salary - Tweedie retired, boosting his pension from $1,171 a year to $46,781. Tweedie said he was not aware, when he took the job, that it would increase his pension dramatically. ?I didn?t know I was going to get anything,?? he said in an interview. But, he said, ?I was fortunate to be able to work there.?? Tweedie is one of many current and former employees of Hodgson?s who have greatly enhanced their retirement benefits by working for the sheriff, a Globe review of payroll and pension records found...continue to full post

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