California prison employees who objected to questionable purchases of everything from cars to guitars for inmate drug treatment programs were told to stay quiet and allow the money to be spent, five whistle-blowers testified Monday. The employees, subpoenaed to testify and sometimes speaking about their bosses or former bosses as they sat next to them, described a state Department of Corrections that had little regard for taxpayers.
See "Prison workers say they were silenced
Excess spending encouraged, they testify", Mark Martin, San Francisco Chronicle, February 27, 2006