Federal Prison Workers Warn Of Dangerous Staffing Crisis
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard spoke to current and former guards working at a network of federal prisons in Florence, Colorado, who describe a dangerous staffing crisis. Many say they’ve been required to work 16 hour shifts repeatedly after an exodus of staff that they attribute to poor working conditions and low pay. In a statement to NBC News, the Bureau of Prisons blames the staff shortage, in part, on a hiring freeze.» Subscribe to NBC News: nbcnews.to/Subs...
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Federal Prison Workers Warn Of Dangerous Staffing Crisis
No wonder guards turn crooked in there and get double pay from the inmates.
Release all non violent drug offenders and end the drug war.
End the privatization of prisons as a profit center where human lives are the raw material that is turned to dollars.
Prisons guards probably have the toughest job in government, low pay, very dangerous work conditions, long hours, and little appreciation.
Yep worked state corrections for 2 years, it’s rough. You just feel like a warm body and a number.
Work conditions is horrible. Just say good bye to all family functions and plans.
Federal prisons have poor compensation? Really, I did not know.
I will also mention the PTSD. 26 yrs working behind the fence, will never be my old self .....
I remember laughing at my mom and dad when they said you should work as a correctional officer 😔😒🤣 I decided military it is
Great choice. You get way more benefits in the military than you ever would BOP or any federal civilian position for that matter
A majority of BOP officers are veterans.
@@barano9729 not disputing that baldy. They only really hire veterans.
Lol military works us just as much if not more
Say who? That's something you made up. @@barano9729
This needs to be addressed through Congress. Whatever Committe's have oversight over the Bureau of Prisons.
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The ones that Blumenthal and Murphy over see.
Some of those with severe staffing shortages are the privately owned for-profit prisons. The pay and benefits are low, the hours are way too long (16 hours in those cases too)
I’ve been in the prison system before 5 years it wasn’t worth no staff no safety
Sign me up. I grew up around 1%ers and can handle mental strain.
it's like this at the state level in most states also, it's a thankless,dangerous job and the admin doesn't care if you work 80 or 100hours.nobody should have to work more than 20 years in that environment,but most states changed to 25 or 30 years.
Florida is having this issue as well on the state level.
There is no reason for this. Pay these guard's. Release NONVIOLENT offender's that were sentenced under Mandatory minimums. Come on.....
Maybe they should end the drug war and release all prisoners who committed drug crimes, you should be allowed to put whatever you want in your body that would free up space and alleviate problem
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Agreed
It's not about personal liberties. It's about huge non - taxed profits , raked in by murderous groups of criminals.
That's misery what the government paid to those guards
Well maybe if the BOP didn’t have officers working a unit by themselves with 200 plus inmates they might get and keep more officers.
It’s happening everywhere not just that prison
But this video is about prison. Pretty sure your McDonalds short staffing is a lot difference than a prison. And yes I’m a CO dealing with those shortages on the daily.
How about compassionate relief how about a whole new way to look at addicts.
Worked at this prison when the overtime wasn’t too bad but now I heard the overtime is out of control. Glad I transferred out to a different joint. Overtime is bad all around the bureau. 1st we do need to be competitive in pay. Overtime should be paid at double and not time and a half. More recruitment needs to be done. And the bureau needs to really train us. Not a 3 week course at GLYNCO. It should be more like 3 months. They need to revamp their training to reflect the current inmate population. Training techniques they currently teach us is from 80’s. Inmates were different back then. And most importantly higher ups need to LISTEN. We are holding the line, we know what works and what doesn’t.
Who would wanna work for this failure of an institution. There's not 1 prison in the country that can protect it's staff and inmates.
I'm the reason why my dad escaped from prison Mexico I am 42 years old and never met my dad once I'm looking to lead them in prison right now I don't have no money to go see him God bless you all and happy holidays from El Chapo son 701 from dunseith North Dakota native American Chippewa 🙏✝️🤟
Was with Customs and Border Protection for a short time and it's the same way. Back to back to back 16 hr shifts, quit and never looked back now I'm enjoying my M-F 8-4:30 work day along with my weekends and holidays.
Times up Esau
The Bible is not a credible source of information though.
I'm willing to sign for my dad if he escapes I will do life with him I'm trying to get them in Englewood Colorado where I did prison time thank you guys and God bless you guys my dad is a very good man
Let the people go that are not a danger.
Florence is a mess. It will always be understaffed.
No fast food restaurant stars off at $45,000 a year.
Starting pay at $45,000 does not compete with fast food restaurant starting pay
Well maybe they should not sentence people for ten or twenty years for none violent drug crime! Because when they get they can't function. Because of so many years in isolation.
Maybe we should look at sentences and if we’re just tossing ppl away that an alternative actual rehabilitation might serve everyone better.
I have my application in. if they help pay to move me I'll start wherever they need staff most.
It's gonna get worse
They should be getting paid doubled. With great benefits
Their jobs should 100000% be hazard pay and then some. They keep the public SAFE! What the heck?!
They need to shut down Federal Prison Camps. Total waste of money.
And then what? Private prisons ? Morally corrupt private prisons ?
@@damien1781 no, anyone in a camp has outside clearance and is not deemed a threat. They should be on house arrest instead of doing nothing in a camp, that’s not prison.
Build them a new prison, or they lost control of Civil Obedience threw respect in a Federal prison. Escape your not coming back.
Working for the BOP was the same in the 1970's. Chronic staffing issues, no training, favoritism, and double tours. These guys accepted these conditions when they took this crap job. They didn't expect it to get better.
My birthday is December 1st 79
They to build fed prison in all states
Pay them for the amount of workers they should have.... man, i'd walk out... don't fk with ppl's money
Imagine the honor of owning a private prison.
Home of the free 🤣🤣..... Forced to work 16 hours a day
Thought they made more I believe they still get good pension though.
You don't need guards in Hunger Games. That's what the stockholders are waiting to see. Just stating the obvious
Why don't they use military
Funny, they just don’t hire!
It is actually hard to find people who can clear a background check with clean records... Most qualified candidates don't want to be stuck in a prison all day with criminals.
@@brokeduece1691 Also FBoP pay is crap.
Well good luck to you
why not lock down the prison and walk away ? problem solved.
While I value our prison systems for keeping us safe, many individuals in our prisons are there for non violent marijuana charges and I dont support the criminalization in the US. Our tax dollars can be better allocated to prevent homelessness
Agreed
Not at that prison, the worst of the worst are at the prison.
Got an idea, drug users don't go.
Omg 😂..these liberal prison workers voted for police reform and prison reform. .. hello... what do you expect
Your tax dollars hard at work...😠
You go work at a super max prison.
They might as well ask el chopo for help
Love it at :48 "We were just pawns. We were worker bees. Nobody cares what happens to us." Duh! Welcome to any job anywhere sister! Waaahhhh
Send the military into the prison.
abu ghraib anyone?
how are they going to fight the russians then? from a prison?
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Starting point for the whole mess is taking the absolute bottom, of the bucket, whole group born with no chances, divide them up, give one side guns and badges, minimum wage, and the other side zilch,
license to operate the entire mess to some crook political donor. This will keep them busy fir a while.
While is about to come due,
several categories.
Don't get so high before explaining my god!
Are these correction officers getting paid overtime?
Yes, but doing 16 hour days for months at a time is not worth the money.
It’s a government job of course it’s low pay bet that there checks most be big. During the pandemic so jail officers where making 40k in a two month because the bum an all the overtime extra during a state of emergency like those people on here bs low key. I respect the job they do but they got union rep to go fight for higher pay y’all. Use the tools, best time to call the union to go get the bigger pay
Make a bunch of mandates and pick and choose who you go and help out smh. if that's not a book from Nazi Germany I don't know what is. We're here to save you schools and hospitals Godspeed
What's going to happen Democrats will probably let him go
The hiring freeze was during the Trump era
Ssooo....what if the COs strike? WTF are they gonna do? Rookies will get eaten alive 😆 🤣 😂
Get that money! Strike!!!
Can’t. They all signed a agreement upon hire that they cannot strike against the government.
Time for prison break
Hire non-violent prisoners to do job guards don't NEED to do. Like kitchen supervisor. Or recreation Supervisor, or Education Supervisor. The BOP hires who ever the can find. Usually farmers from the surrounding rural areas where they plop these human warehouse farms down.
NO farming going on in Florence, CO. Some ranching, the farming is much farther east. They like building prisons were land is cheap and little industry.
This creates jobs. In Colorado they built
Two facilities on old dump sites. Really cheap$$$ land, nobody wants.
Release non violent offenders.
I hope the Trump`s are watching this. No more golf for the orange man and donnie boy " don`t drop the soap ".
It's not that hard taking care of a locked up and every one of those guards are out of shape I'd be complaining too if I was fat and disgusting
What makes you say that?
Citizens need to pay more taxes to give these guys raises and to hire more people. Pay more taxes
I agree with you, just one problem. I have nothing left to be taxed on.
Free chapo
Privatization of the system will fix the problem.
Privatization tends to worsen the problems. For one thing it sucks money out of the federal system, and depresses wages for correctional staff. For another, the administration of justice shouldn't be a for-profit industry.
No it want.
16 hours straight of standing around and moving inmates big whoop. Everyone is demanding a raise in every field. Its about money
YOU do that job tough guy.
Back to back 16 hour shifts breaks you down. And reading in between the lines, there's a lot more going on that makes a demanding job into a total slog.
But if you wanna be a badass, strap on a uniform and go work a tier and do back to back drafts 3-4 days a week for 6 months. Then come back and tell me it was no issue.
I work for the Bureau of Prisons and I wouldn't even work at the location. Your responsible for supervising inmates who are serving 3 life sentences. It's pretty much up to the inmates if you go home at the end of your shift. What makes you believe Correctional Officers do not a raise? We couldn't even get Hazard Pay during the pandemic.
Devens is unfit medically unsanitary
Federal prisons have poor compensation? Really, I did not know.