UPDATE: The Bureau of Prisons has released a statement confirming a budget shortfall. More after the fold.
The federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a budget crisis because Congress has underfunded an agency account that is predominately used to…
The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is facing a projected budget shortfall of $433 million and could be forced to cut 4,000 correctional staff positions if the agency cannot obtain an additional $289 million in funding.
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Increasing violence against correctional workers in the nation’s prisons has some lawmakers worried, according to a congressional letter addressed to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is refusing to clean up sewage contamination at one of its most notorious prisons, documents show. New information has surfaced regarding worker allegations of environmental contamination at the Supermax prison in Florence that may…
Members of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a union that represents approximately 28,000 correctional workers, will be traveling to Washington, D.C., in February to discuss a variety of issues with congressional representatives.
An arbitration hearing regarding contaminated air at the Supermax prison in Florence, Colo., has been postponed until late February.
The labor union representing correctional officers at the Supermax facility was expected to enter arbitration with the federal Bureau
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The federal Bureau of Prisons responds to Colorado Confidential’s Inside Supermax series, and confirms the hiring of a new statistics analyst.
Union officials representing correctional officers at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado are seeking arbitration with the government over a sewage spill that is allegedly contaminating the air and making workers sick.
The federal Supermax prison in Florence Colorado is getting more media attention than ever before, but will it be enough to prompt a congressional hearing of facility’s staffing levels?
Colorado’s most notorious prison will be getting a national spotlight this week, in a feature to appear on the television news program “60 Minutes”.
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