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Home » Subscribers Only » Budget » JFC approves $8 million less to cover OT pay for prison guards
The committee unanimously approved providing less money to cover overtime costs at state prisons than Gov. Scott Walker proposed as Dems Republicans weren’t doing enough to boost pay and morale for guards. The committee’s action dropped the amount available for overtime to $100 million over the biennium, $8 million than Walker proposed. The revised figure was based off averaging overtime over the ...