CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Some state prison workers in southern Illinois are making near $200,000 a year as the state grapples for a second year in a row with overtime payouts topping $60 million.

The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports that a shift supervisor at the Vandalia Correctional Center earning nearly $96,000 a year made almost an additional $107,000 in overtime last year.

Illinois Department of Corrections spokesman Tom Shaer says the prison system has made strides in paring overtime costs. He says that between the past two fiscal years there were 178,000 fewer overtime hours worked, though the department only saved $2 million.

Shaer says factors that limited the extent of savings included a court ruling to pay wage and overtime rate increases suspended by the administration because of a lack of funds.

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