Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he is reviewing a decision by his administration to sharply raise the salaries of a group of prison wardens last month to $100,000 a year without clear documentation of the reasons.
...Michael Meisner, who became warden at Redgranite Correctional Institution after leaving the same post at Columbia Correctional, and Marc Clements, who became the head of Dodge Correctional after leaving the top post at Fox Lake Correctional, both saw their pay rise to $100,000 a year from $90,420, an increase of $9,580, or 10.6%. The salary increases for those two wardens come on top of those given to six others as part of the series of transfers that the Journal Sentinel reported last week.
The salary increases came at a time when rank-and-file corrections officers received 1% pay raises and are still adjusting to a 2011 law that cut their overall compensation and greatly reduced the power of unions representing them.
Closer to home, Sheriff Rich Stanek's salary went from $145,000 a year in 2007 to $157,000 a year in 2013. The Hennepin County board makes $99,000 a year and are the only county board in Minnesota to get take home cars.
At a time that the employees of the largest jail in Minnesota have the lowest pay in the metro area after years of wage freezes.
And they will be wondering why we are picketing very soon.
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