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Jindal budget cut plans include layoffs
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to close a $341 million budget deficit will cost at least 335 state employees their jobs - mainly in the state Department of Corrections.
Seventy people hired for a new skilled nursing unit for prisoners will be let go because the facility at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel won’t be expanded as planned.
Corrections also plans to sell a rehabilitation center in Tallulah to a private company and to lay off those 151 employees.
Another 102 positions will be cut throughout the department.
Meanwhile, the veterans affairs department will lay off 12 people.
And the tally doesn’t include any layoffs that statewide elected officials might make to meet their required budget cuts.
Part of Jindal’s plan still needs approval from the Legislature’s budget committee.
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