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Ongoing Fiscal Problems at the California Department of Corrections
From the Introduction section of the Auditor's report:
Of the department's more than 48,000 employees in fiscal year 2001-02, almost 23,000 were custody staff. Custody staff are directly responsible for inmate supervision, which often requires that positions be covered around the clock. These positions are generally filled by four classifications of employees: captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and correctional officers. In this report, we focus on the department's correctional officers for three reasons: (1) They make up about 85 percent of the department's custody staff; (2) they account for more than 80 percent of the custody staff overtime; and (3) theirs is the only custody classification covered by the State's labor agreement with the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA).
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