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Todd Novak: “We really increased wages a lot in the last couple budgets.”

Featuring: Todd Novak, Republican | Wisconsin State Assembly, 51st District

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October Legislative Update

Published | Video Starts at 26:44

You're talking wild west type prison, just like Tony said, the old movies. And it's overcrowded and there's some issues, but the vacancy rates have come way down as far as staffing. And We really increased wages a lot in the last couple budgets. And so that helped tremendously because they weren't making what they should have and they were working so many hours of overtime and they were burning themselves out. (26:44–26:50)

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Asserts that wages were significantly increased in recent budgets.

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