Questions are being raised over the spending priorities within corrections.
Head office numbers have blown out to more than a thousand.
But it's the salary structure that Sensible Sentencing wants to know more about, 541 staff are earning between $100,000 - $200,000.
The number paid over $200,000 has tripled from 21 staff to 57.
On the front line though, there are complaints about staff shortages.
Sensible Sentencing's Darroch Ball joined the Summer Breakfast.
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