labama's state government is going to have 1,100 fewer employees by this fall due to state budget cuts

By Phillip Rawls of The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Alabama's state government is going to have 1,100 fewer employees by this fall due to state budget cuts, the end of federal stimulus funding and different standards of care for the mentally disabled.
The state Department of Mental Health is looking at a total of 582 layoffs, including 400 from the closure of Partlow Hospital in Tuscaloosa, or about one-fourth of its staff.
The state Department of Agriculture and Industries has cut 89 employees due to budget cuts, or nearly one-fourth of its staff.
At Alabama's trial courts, 252 employees in circuit clerks' offices and 20 in state administrative offices are being laid off at the end of the month. That brings the total layoffs since spring to 423, or 20 percent of the staff.