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Guards Outnumber Prisoners, Still Paid Overtime at Illinois Supermax

Prison officials at the Tamms Correctional Center in southern Illinois, which includes the state's only supermax prison, are having a hard time explaining how staff racked up $884,000 in overtime between November 2011 and November 2012 when the facility’s guard-to-prisoner ratio is 1.5-to-1.

To call this facility inefficient is putting ...

 

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