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NY: High Cost of Prison Guards and Nurses

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

High Cost of Prison Workers Tuesday, 05 Oct 2010 By Barbara Nevins Taylor MYFOXNY.COM - Every time a criminal gets locked up in New York it costs taxpayers about $55,000 a year to keep him or her behind bars. But a Fox 5 News investigation found the biggest cost in the New York State Department of Correctional Services isn't prisoners, it is employees. At Bedford Hills Correction Center in Westchester some employees will work double time, legally doubling or tripling their salaries. In 2009, 28 corrections staffers and nurses made more than $100,000 because of overtime. Overtime at this one prison cost the state $1.7 million in 2009. Nurses were the big overtime winners. The base pay is $55,000 but one nurse took home an astonishing $227,000...continue to full post

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