News Source: Sacramento Bee
| 14 days ago
California Correctional Supervisors Organization has filed a furlough lawsuit naming the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Personnel Administration as defendants. The group, whose Web site you can view by...
News Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 15 days ago
Board members also authorized Corrections Director Howard Skolnik to start charging inmate accounts about $800,000 in rent for the use of canteens and gyms in state prisons...Instead, it will come from prison welfare funds, which are generated by...
News Source: Miami Herald
| 15 days ago
Candidates suggest ways to end Hawaii furloughs With public anger rising over teacher furloughs in Hawaii, two of the four expected candidates for governor next year offered ways on Tuesday that the controversial moneysaving program could be halted...
News Source: Seattle Times
| 15 days ago
Gov. James "Duke" Aiona is asking representatives of the parties involved in Hawaii's controversial teacher furlough program to meet with him immediately to work out a settlement...Gov. James "Duke" Aiona is asking representatives of the parties...
News Source: Seattle Times
| 15 days ago
Though conceding it was a close call, a federal judge refused to halt Hawaii's teacher furloughs, and called on the state and lawyers for parents who filed two lawsuits to quickly reach an out-of-court settlement. The decision by senior U.S. judge...
News Source: Tulsa World
| 16 days ago
About 4,700 Department of Corrections employees will begin taking furlough days in March, the department's director said Monday. "That assumes there is no special session or we get no relief in regular session," Director Justin Jones said. The...