Custody Staff
May 3, 2009
Spending in Correctional Officer Overtime
The Governor's budget provides a $35.7 million General Fund augmentation to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to pay for overtime costs for custody staff. The CDCR argues that its base overtime budget - which it identifi es to be $104.3 million—has not been adjusted since 2000-01, despite a 34 percent base salary increase provided to correctional officer staff over that period. The $104.3 million overtime budget identifi ed by CDCR does not include about $49 million in additional overtime funding provided since 2004-05 for various activities, such as medical guarding...
October 22, 2007
Gov. Schwarzenegger Directs CDCR to Utilize Inmate Fire Crews in Response to Major Wildfires
Governor Schwarzenegger today directed inmate firefighters and staff from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to deploy across Southern California to work hand-in-hand with state and local firefighters. As of today, more than 2,300 CDCR inmates and more than 170 custody staff have joined firefighters from city and county fire departments and state agencies as part of a major coordinated effort to battle the widespread wildfires in Southern California…
LINK - Gov.CA.gov
July 1, 2002
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).
