Same thing with New York State prison Superintendent, and their Deputy Superintendents. Those jobs were all Civil Service. The warden of Auburn Prison got to live in a big, beautiful house for free. He got a housing stipend too. He was the last Civil Service appointed Warden in the State. He was still there when I transferred out in 1983 to go to a prison closer to my home. They turned those top jobs over to whoever could blow the Commissioner in Albany the best, and the whole system went down hill from there. If you wanted to be chosen as an Administrator, it wasn't who you knew...it was who you blew. The new Administrators serve at the pleasure of the Commissioner, and were afraid to speak up and oppose anything for fear they'd lose their position. They turned into State whores, and nobody had any respect for them.
Same thing with New York State prison Superintendent, and their Deputy Superintendents. Those jobs were all Civil Service.
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