Lawmakers grill Department of Corrections after audit shows dozens of failures – Capitol News IL

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The department allowed employees to earn overtime hours while working during paid leave, violated state purchasing rules and failed to maintain a list of paroled inmates who moved to other state facilities, according to the audit. “I don’t know why the two worst-run departments in the state are the ones that deal with lives of people We are being fleeced – the taxpayers,” said commission co-chair Sen.