Category: Corrections
- 05/04/11 Prison Corporations are ‘Making a Killing’ New report details corruption, increased cases of violence and death at for-profit facilities.
- 05/02/11 Honoring Our Corrections Officers Recognizing the thousands of corrections officers who risk their lives to keep our communities safe.
- 12/08/10 Crucial Vote for Public Safety Officers The U.S. Senate appears ready to vote this afternoon on the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (S. 3991), which would grant collective bargaining rights to law enforcement officers across the country.
- 11/23/10 Tennessee COs Win Seniority Bidding More than 400 corrections officers and employees at the Morgan County Correctional Complex in Wartburg are hailing a recent agreement which provides seniority bidding in all areas of the facility.
- 05/06/10 Honoring Those Who Work in America’s Prisons and Jails National Correctional Officers and Employees Week (May 2 through 8) is the time set aside to honor the courageous, dedicated women and men who help keep our communities safe.
- 01/11/10 Minnesota COs Beat Privateers
- 11/20/09 Honoring the Unsung Heroes More than 500 law enforcement and corrections officers gathered in Las Vegas recently for the Public Safety Congress.
- 11/04/09 Philadelphia Corrections Officers Win Arbitration Ruling
- 05/06/09 National Correctional Employees Week Thousands of AFSCME members across the country, working in both maximum- and minimum-security facilities, state prisons and county jails, keep our communities safe by putting their lives on the line every day.
- 03/13/09 Connecticut Corrections Employees Win Wage Hike 5,000 Connecticut state corrections employees - members of AFSCME Council 4 - will get a wage hike totaling 8 percent over three years.
