Illinois prisoners wrongly used to wash cars, shine shoes, for IDOC employee fund, says government watchdog – Bloomington Pantagraph

The investigation by the state’s executive inspector general’s office led to an overhaul of the Illinois Department of Corrections’ use of so-called “employee benefit funds,” or EBFs. This money allows prison guards and other IDOC employees to throw holiday parties, pay for colleagues’ funerals, golf outings and other private functions.

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