Audit Finds Department of Corrections Employees Took Overtime Pay While on Paid Leave

An audit released this week shows that Illinois Department of Corrections employees were allowed to work overtime on the same day they were on paid leave. The paid overtime costs involved were over $150 million in fiscal year 2024 alone.

This is absolutely outrageous, and another example of state agency dysfunction under the Pritzker regime. This type of egregious mismanagement deserves a full investigation and explanation to all of the taxpayers in Illinois. How can we be allowing this to happen? It makes no sense and should be infuriating to everyone, no matter their political affiliation.

Governor Pritzker, we deserve answers, and we deserve better from our state agencies. Learn more here: THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All…Overpaying corrections employees…Pritzker's budget hold back…Assault weapons ban