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Audit Finds California Prison Employees Routinely Work Less Than 40 Hours a Week
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2012, page 44
In an April 2011 audit, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that over a three-month period ending in August 2010, mental health and education employees at Mule Creek State Prison routinely worked less than the 40 hours a week reflected on the timesheets they submitted for pay. …
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