$29M in errors, 30% staff vacancy: Audit uncovers years Colorado prison system budget mismanagement
By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado
An audit of the Colorado Department of Corrections has uncovered "erroneous information and incorrect calculations" over four years of budget requests reviewed.
An independent third party conducted the audit that resulted in nearly three dozen recommended changes.
CDOC Executive Director Moses "Andre" Stancil told the state's Joint Budget Committee he agrees with the recommendations in the 101-page report that found CDOC's approach to budgeting is unlike any other prison system in the country, and not in a good way.
"Everything has been such a fluid mess over the years," said budget writer and Republican state Rep. Rick Taggert of Grand Junction.
The audit found CDOC's budget requests have had "inaccurate, incomplete, and inco...