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ACU Update

 

Don't forget: CO Week is May 3-9 this year

You and your local can start planning activities now to honor the role of COs in keeping our communities safe. For those of you planning to travel to Washington, D.C., for the annual memorial service, it will be held on Saturday, May 2....

 

Our condolences to the family and friends of CO James Chris Hamilton

49, who was a member of AFSCME Local 1262 (New York Council 82) and an officer at the Clinton Correctional Facility, with 19 years of service. Hamilton’s death during the ice storm that hit the Northeast this January was a result of carbon-monoxide poisoning from an improperly ventilated generator....

 

Attica inmates injured 10 officers

in a mess hall attack in late September involving mess hall trays and batons wrenched from officers. The injured officers were treated and released the same day. This attack is the latest in a series of 1997 incidents believed to be gang-related. The state Department of Corrections and Council 82 leaders have sat down for a series of meetings on the problem of gangs in the prisons....

 

COs at the Penitentiary of New Mexico switched to a 12-hour shift

this fall in a trial attempt proposed by Council 18 to reduce overtime and increase days off. The officers, who had previously worked eight-hour days, are now on a two-week rotation of three days on, four days off, four days on, three days off....

 

AFSCME Local 159 (Council 33) has requested protective vests for Philadelphia COs

reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. Tyrone Courtney, president of the local, made the request after the fatal stabbing of a New Jersey CO. City officials were considering the proposal and planned to meet with Courtney to discuss it....

 

Local 3190 (Council 97) member Bob Eastlund took Amnesty International to task

for the organization’s undocumented allegations of human rights abuses against inmates confined to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, where Eastlund has worked for 13 years. In a letter to The Arizona Republic, Eastlund noted that officers’ training is "regarded nationwide as some of the best" and that weapons used by officers are "state-of-the-art systems used by law enforcement agencies in all fifty states."

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