Rep. Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania last week introduced the Eric Williams Correctional Officer Protection Act of 2015 that would make permanent the Bureau of Prisons’ pepper spray pilot program which allows correctional officers and others to carry pepper spray for personal protection.
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This Thursday, President Obama signed a bill to rename the Lompoc post office in honor of a correctional officer killed in the line of duty.
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The Bureau of Prisons last week expanded the pepper spray pilot program from high-security prisons to seven medium-security prisons.
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The Bureau of Prisons last week expanded the pepper spray pilot program from high-security prisons to seven medium-security prisons.
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This week AFGE celebrates Medical Assistants Recognition Week, honoring the thousands of federal and D.C. government employees who provide important duties critical to the delivery of medical services in health care facilities operated by government agencies.
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Jean and Don Williams came to the Lycoming County Court House in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday to join AFGE and Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey to push for passage of a bill that would provide protections to Bureau of Prisons correctional officers.
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AFGE National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd this week asked lawmakers to pass a Senate bill that would overhaul the outdated Administrative Uncontrollable Overtime (AUO) pay and provide funding for 5,000 Border Patrol agents.
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Council of Prison Locals (CPL) president Eric Young says that this scary and unsettling escape attempt is endemic of federal prisons, where cost-cutting has become a higher priority than the safety of correctional officers – leading to fewer officers in increasingly overcrowded prisons.
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The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) congratulates the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and Council of Prisons Locals (CPL) in the signing of their new contract. The two groups signed the contract at a signing ceremony at BOP Headquarters building located in Washington, DC. This contract will be BOP’s first new contract in 16 years.
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Correctional Officer Aaron Scott doesn’t discuss what happens at work with his wife. He doesn’t talk about how he’s routinely surrounded by hundreds of drug dealers, gang members, and professional killers. He doesn’t tell her how these prisoners use weapons made with broken toilet seats, light fixtures, or whatever they could find to stab other inmates and staff members. He doesn’t share the fact that these inmates speak with their family members in code, that threats against staff are constant both inside and outside the prison walls.
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The American Federation of Government Employees is proud to represent tens of thousands of law enforcement officers throughout the federal government, many of whom have traveled to Washington this week to participate in National Police Week.
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Two senators from Pennsylvania Sens. Pat Toomey and Bob Casey Jr. were determined that the death of Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer Eric Williams last year wouldn't be in vain, and so this week – the National Correctional Officers Week – they introduced a bill that would provide BOP officers and employees with pepper spray so that they can protect themselves in emergency situations.
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Workers Memorial Day is April 28, 2014. AFGE wants to use this opportunity to honor federal employees who lost their lives protecting and serving the American people:
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As he toured a federal prison in Louisiana on Monday, AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. called on Congress to start addressing prison overcrowding and understaffing instead of just talking about them.
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