July 20, 2011
Controller Audit: prisons had lousy bookkeeping
California's corrections department overpaid some employees for salaries and travel advances and was slow to collect those funds, according to an audit the state controller's office released Wednesday.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation gave one former employee a lump sum check for $14,950 to meet a deadline for leaving the state's employment, but the department did not deduct that from the employee's final paycheck, meaning that person received both a salary advance and a final paycheck.
Another employee received a salary advance of more than $8,000 in January 2008, plus a regular paycheck, the audit found. Three years later, the advance had not been collected...
LINK - MercuryNews.com
