While investigating a report that an employee at a state juvenile detention center was sleeping over at the facility for free, Virginia officials discovered a much bigger problem: 22 other staff members were doing the same thing at detention centers around the state. The investigation was prompted by a complaint that Vincent Wilkerson, an employee at the state’s Reception and Diagnostic Center located outside of Richmond, was living in one of the buildings on the campus, for free and without permission. It was while checking on Wilkerson that state investigators learned that 22 other employees had adopted similar living arrangements at the Beaumont and Culpeper correctional centers, as well as the Richmond area facility. They stayed for a total of 652 days starting around September 2009.
The staffers who were sleeping over had $10 added to their checks for each night they stayed over. Their penalty is that they have to pay taxes on the additional income.
