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TDCJ dips into line staff raises for higher supervisor pay

There's little doubt the Texas Legislature primarily intended upcoming pay raises for Texas prison guards primarily for the rank and file. That was clear both before and during the time the Lege was in session. But now Mike Ward at the Statesman reports TDCJ is shifting that money around to give larger raises to supervisors ("Prison guards say pay raise not as much as promised," Aug. 29):Four months ago, with the state budget feeling the pinch of a diving economy, Texas' 24,000 correctional officers cheered the news that the Legislature had given them a 3.5 percent pay raise, effective this fall.By Friday, that thrill was fading: Prison officials acknowledged correctional officers will get slightly less ? 3.35 percent ? while their bosses will get more ? for some, raises of more than 8 percent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 29, 2009 (boomark / email).