Comments on: Scott Proposes $79.3 Billion Budget

By: shilohc

shilohc — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 09:37:25 +0000

I wonder if our representative, Evers, will support a raise for the correction officers or line up with scott to receive his mandated raise check? The Tallahassee crowd is sickening!

By: Rufus Lowgun

Rufus Lowgun — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:43:47 +0000

So Rick Scott is cutting taxes by a billion, and increasing spending by a billion. How many magic asterisks did it take to make that math work out? As far as raises for state corrections officers go, that’s by design. Rick Scott’s object is to privatize all the state prisons so the state is off the hook for the salaries, benefits, and pensions. Corrections officers better get used to the idea of $9.00 an hour and a 401K with no matching funds from their employer, because selling off the state prisons to CCA or GEO Group, Inc. is what Republicans have in mind for the DOC.

By: CORRECTIONSLEFTOUTAGAIN

CORRECTIONSLEFTOUTAGAIN — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:41:13 +0000

Of course yet again, nothing for Corrections employees who have not had a raise in over 9 years. Corrections officers are quitting left and right and noone wants to work for the DOC anymore and Scott wonders why. Officers deserve a raise they are busting their butts to do a job noone else would want to do for a wage that is not worth the risk they face everyday. It sickens me to see that yet again Corrections officers fall to the bottom of the list when it comes to state funds. Maybe Scott should work at a prison for a week and see if he is still singing the same tune

By: c.w.

c.w. — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 09:59:45 +0000

The governor should provide a decent wage for the correction officers before he cut taxes to help his “friends”. A 20% raise is needed to make up for all the years the correction officers have been screwed over by the state.