When Gov. Mario Cuomo announced in 1984 that he would
slash his personal
staff by 10 percent, he did not actually cut the
number of employees reporting to him — instead adding dozens of workers to state agency budget lines.
Director of the Prison Reform Trust, Juliet Lyon, said: «
Slashing prison budgets while warehousing ever greater
numbers overseen by largely inexperienced
staff has come at a dangerous cost.