Corrections
AFSCME Corrections United --We're 62,000 corrections officers and 23,000 corrections employees who've joined forces in AFSCME to fight for better pay and benefits, for safe workplaces, and to uphold the standard of professionalism in our field. ACU members are men and women working all across the country, in both maximum- and minimum-security facilities, state prisons and county jails. ACU has a proven record of accomplishments on the federal, state and local levels, and at the bargaining table – fighting to improve the pay and working conditions of all COs and corrections employees.
Join your brothers and sisters in the AFSCME Corrections United Network. We’ll discuss shared concerns, learn about what’s going on around the country and exchange information and ideas.
Connecticut: Appropriations Committee Approves NP-4 Corrections Arbitration Award Council 4 won a major victory Jan. 30 in advancing a much deserved pay raise for state correction employees. The General Assembly Appropriations Committee voted 34-14 to table the correction employee arbitrated award resolution, effectively passing it at this stage of the process. If the State Senate and House do not reject the award (by a two thirds margin) by the end of the day on February 13, it will become law. Texas: GEO riot finally under control A riot at a Texas detention center was ended Sunday. One prison building was heavily damaged, and about 700 inmates were going to spend the night in tents, authorities said. The disturbance began Saturday at the Reeves County Detention Center near Pecos in west Texas, and hundreds of inmates continued rioting overnight in the second such incident at the facility in less than two months...The prison is a 2,400-bed, low-security facility, operated by Geo Group Inc. It houses federal prisoners as well as inmates from other states. Corrections funds vanish in Madoff scandal The $50 billion Ponzi scheme that Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff is accused of orchestrating has stunned many state corrections officials — and not simply because of the magnitude of the alleged crime. Among the funds lost in the scandal, it has emerged, were millions of dollars earmarked for corrections-related projects in the states, ranging from post-conviction DNA testing for inmates in Texas to housing assistance for ex-convicts in Kansas...
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