Sheriff needs more money for overtime
NORWICH – Chenango County Sheriff Ernest Cutting is requesting permission to transfer another $90,000 from the part-time line item in his budget to overtime.
County supervisors last month transferred $75,000 for the same purpose.
The Sheriff said maintaining staffing levels at the Public Safety Facility jail and the “tremendous” medical problems inmates have have resulted in more overtime work for corrections officers. Two officers have died, one retired and one was let go, leaving four positions vacant.
The 129-bed jail on Upper Ravine Road in the Town of Norwich was originally slated to employ 63 corrections officers, but county lawmakers negotiated with the New York State Department of Corrections for 59.
“We’re always about five short, anyway,” said Cutting. “This is making a huge impact on our organization.”
Medical issues, serious illness and drug and alcohol addictions mean some convicts require 24 hour supervision in their cells. Transporting inmates to and from the hospital to treat their various illnesses is doubling housing costs as well. Cutting told county supervisors during a meeting of the Finance Committee last week that one inmate recently required security in the hospital for four days.
There were 104 prisoners incarcerated at the start of the month; five of them housed in from downstate and out-of-county prisons.
Committee Vice Chairman Dennis Brown, D-Pharsalia, asked what crimes the majority jailed had committed. The Sheriff responded: “Everything.”
The Sheriff budgeted $225,000 in overtime for 2009.
The department’s boarding-in budget projection is on track for the year.
County supervisors last month transferred $75,000 for the same purpose.
The Sheriff said maintaining staffing levels at the Public Safety Facility jail and the “tremendous” medical problems inmates have have resulted in more overtime work for corrections officers. Two officers have died, one retired and one was let go, leaving four positions vacant.
The 129-bed jail on Upper Ravine Road in the Town of Norwich was originally slated to employ 63 corrections officers, but county lawmakers negotiated with the New York State Department of Corrections for 59.
“We’re always about five short, anyway,” said Cutting. “This is making a huge impact on our organization.”
Medical issues, serious illness and drug and alcohol addictions mean some convicts require 24 hour supervision in their cells. Transporting inmates to and from the hospital to treat their various illnesses is doubling housing costs as well. Cutting told county supervisors during a meeting of the Finance Committee last week that one inmate recently required security in the hospital for four days.
There were 104 prisoners incarcerated at the start of the month; five of them housed in from downstate and out-of-county prisons.
Committee Vice Chairman Dennis Brown, D-Pharsalia, asked what crimes the majority jailed had committed. The Sheriff responded: “Everything.”
The Sheriff budgeted $225,000 in overtime for 2009.
The department’s boarding-in budget projection is on track for the year.
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