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New Jersey Taxpayers Underwrite Unqualified, Unnecessary Prison Employees
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2006, page 31
The New Jersey prison system is infested with parasitic employees--thrust upon the department by legislators and the governor's office--who bleed state taxpayers for more than $850,000 a year, Department of Corrections (DOC) commissioner Devon Brown has admitted.
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Government Misconduct,
Staffing.
Location:
New Jersey.
The revelation came during a May 3, 2005, meeting of the Assembly Budget ...
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