Council of Prison Locals Pushes Local Partnership
March 13, 2015
The Council of Prison Locals is encouraging every BOP local to host at least one partnership meeting with management every quarter to foster a good working relationship.
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AFGE Testifies on behalf of all Correctional Workers
March 13, 2015
At a meeting of the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections this week, AFGE Council of Prison Locals (CPL) President Eric Young testified passionately on behalf of the men and women working in our federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
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BOP Expands Use of Pepper Spray to All Staff at All Medium-Security Prisons
March 03, 2015
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has agreed to allow all staff at all high and medium security prisons to carry pepper spray to protect themselves and others if attacked by inmates. This major victory is a culmination AFGE members’ efforts to create for better working conditions for the correctional officers that keep our communities safe.
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This Bill Ensures Retirement Fairness for Correctional Officers
February 20, 2015
Congress needs to pass an AFGE-backed bill recently introduced that would ensure retirement fairness for correctional officers who risk the lives every single day keeping the most dangerous felons behind bars. The bill, S. 380 – introduced by Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, would exempt correctional officers who retire before age 55 with 20 years of service from the federal tax law’s 10% additional tax penalty for early withdrawals from the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP).
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This Bill Could Save Correctional Officers’ Lives
February 13, 2015
A critical bill has been introduced in the Senate, and its passage could mean life or death for Bureau of Prisons officers. The bill, S. 368, would allow officers to carry their personal firearms while they commute to-and-from work by requiring wardens of BOP-operated institutions to provide a secure storage area located outside of the secure perimeter of those institutions.
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Jose Rivera's Family Needs Your Help
February 13, 2015
Brothers and sisters of the Bureau of Prisons, when we see a fellow correctional officer or their family in need, we take care of our own. Right now, the family of fallen officer Jose Rivera needs our help.
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Representative Cartwright Introduces Bill to Make BOP Pepper Spray Pilot Permanent
January 27, 2015
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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AFGE Applauds Renaming of Lompoc Post Office for Slain Correctional Officer
December 19, 2014
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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BOP Expands Pepper Spray Pilot Program to More Prisons
November 26, 2014
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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BOP Expands Pepper Spray Pilot Program to More Prisons
November 26, 2014
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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Medical Assistants Recognition Week
October 23, 2014
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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Parents of Slain Correctional Officer Eric Williams Join AFGE Leaders to Highlight Unsafe Prison Conditions
July 03, 2014
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 Border Patrol Council Urges Reform of Administrative Uncontrollable Overtime Pay
June 12, 2014
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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USP Prison Break Attempt
June 03, 2014
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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AFGE Congratulates CPL Members on New Contract
May 30, 2014
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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