Nine of the 10 highest-paid state employees work in New Hampshire prisons.
Last year, those nine alone earned a combined $3.1 million, earnings that a Monitor analysis of state salary data found were bolstered by copious amounts of overtime.
The highest-paid individual, Dwane Sweatt, a supervising officer at the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin, made 2.5 times more than Gov. Kelly Ayotte. Sweatt earned $406,273, with $295,905 of that coming from …