Missouri prison employees slam work environment
(AP) — Two Missouri prison employees on Thursday claimed there are problems ranging from low pay to scant accountability in state prisons to a legislative panel investigating the state's troubled Department of Corrections.
The agency fell under scrutiny after the Kansas City alternative weekly paper The Pitch reported prison worker claims of sexual harassment, racial discrimination and other harassment by co-workers and retaliation by supervisors for speaking out.
The House Budget Committee also on Thursday passed a proposal to require the attorney general every year to report to lawmakers how money is being doled out from the state's legal expense fund, which is used to pay settlements.