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The Joint Finance Committee today voted 12-4 along party lines to increase state employee compensation by over $700 million. The GOP motion includes $344 million to boost the pay of Corrections officers amid high vacancy rates, especially among prison guards and sergeants at its maximum security prisons. The plan would set aside money to bump starting wages for prison guards to $33 an ...