YELLOW SHEET
Office of the State Auditor of Missouri
Claire McCaskill
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YELLOW SHEET Office of the State Auditor of Missouri |
September 20, 2001
Report No. 2001-88
The following problems
were discovered as a result of an audit conducted by our office of the
Department of Corrections, Kansas City Community Release Center.
The Kansas City Community Release Center opened in May
1978 and originally housed only men, but was expanded to include women in
1982.� The facility currently houses
approximately 312 offenders.� The
administration consists of one superintendent and one associate superintendent
with a staff of 81 employees.�
The Kansas City Community Release Center has a fleet of
approximately 8 vehicles.� Travel logs
for state-owned vehicles are not always complete.� Department of Corrections policy requires that all uses of each
vehicle be documented on a vehicle travel log.�
These logs are necessary to document appropriate use of the
vehicle.� The logs are also not reviewed
by a supervisor to ensure completeness and that vehicle usage is reasonable.
The
Kansas City Community Release Center maintains its own Inmate Canteen Fund in
an account at a local bank.� No
authorization for the facility to maintain such an account can be found in
Department of Corrections policies.�
Department policy requires that these funds be held and administered by
the department�s Inmate Finance Office.�
In March 2000, the center closed a savings account which was part of its
Inmate Canteen Fund and sent the balance of $28,522 to the Inmate Finance
Office.� The balance of the center�s
Inmate Canteen Fund as of June 30, 2000 was $13,170.�
Physical
inventories are not always being conducted in compliance with Department of
Corrections policy.� The physical
inventories of the armory are conducted by the same armory personnel that have
custody of the inventory.� No perpetual
records are maintained for either the office supply inventory or the
armory.� Portions of the office supply
inventory were moved to various locations in the facility and any employee with
a master key now has access to the inventory.