Overtime at issue in Texas county jail system
In order to meet guard-to-inmate ratios set by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the Cameron County jail division increased its overtime employee attendance payouts between 2008 and 2010, according to the Brownsville Herald.
Sergeant Sergio Moore Jr. - an officer with the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center in Olmito - presented figures at a recent meeting of the Cameron County Commissioners Court that showed correlation between the number of inmates transported to the hospital and the amount of overtime received by guards. Last year, 188 inmates required hospital visits, and guards were paid $495,000 in overtime - a sharp increase from 88 inmate hospital visits in 2008, and $391,000 in overtime.
Moore noted that although the Cameron County jail system has more inmates than comparable systems, it has fewer staff, resulting in higher overtime accrual.
The state of West Virginia is also grappling with overcrowding, resulting in a $6.6 million overtime bill, according to the Register-Herald. Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein told the news source that the high time and attendance compensation was exacerbated by a shortage of Division of Corrections employees.
Sergeant Sergio Moore Jr. - an officer with the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center in Olmito - presented figures at a recent meeting of the Cameron County Commissioners Court that showed correlation between the number of inmates transported to the hospital and the amount of overtime received by guards. Last year, 188 inmates required hospital visits, and guards were paid $495,000 in overtime - a sharp increase from 88 inmate hospital visits in 2008, and $391,000 in overtime.
Moore noted that although the Cameron County jail system has more inmates than comparable systems, it has fewer staff, resulting in higher overtime accrual.
The state of West Virginia is also grappling with overcrowding, resulting in a $6.6 million overtime bill, according to the Register-Herald. Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein told the news source that the high time and attendance compensation was exacerbated by a shortage of Division of Corrections employees.
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