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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
New York Lowers Minimum Age for Prison Guards by An approved bill in New York state will lower the minimum hiring age of its prison guards from 21 to 18, following a strike that resulted in over 2,000 guards being fired earlier this year [See: PLN, March 2025, p.61.] The …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Trump Guts BOP Guard Union by An executive order signed by Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) on March 27, 2025, stripped collective bargaining rights from federal unions, including those representing guards working for the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The guards had already lost most or all of their incentive …
New York Lifts Hiring Ban on Fired Striking Prison Guards, Announces Early Prisoner Releases by Faced with ongoing short-staffing after firing 2,000 prison guards for their wildcat strike, New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello announced on April 1, 2025, that the agency would …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Peters Fights Dismissal from BOP, Guards Lose Bonus Pay by The election of Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) has thrown the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) into turmoil. As PLN reported, former Director Collette Peters resigned just hours after the inauguration on January 20, 2025. [See: PLN, Feb. 2025, p.10.] …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
NYC Rehires Former Head of Rikers Island Lockup Where Guard Assault Left Detainee Quadriplegic by On May 11, 2024, the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) rehired Ned McCormick, the former official in charge of a Rikers Island lockup where a massive guard pile-­on exactly one year earlier left …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Throws Prisoners Under the Bus to Adopt New Heat Rules by In a desperate bid to get new heat-­related workplace safety rules adopted before summer arrived, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) agreed on April 18, 2024, to drop prisons and jails from the measure. Two temperature …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
BOP Cuts Ties With American Correctional Association by On March 31, 2024, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) let its contract expire with the American Correctional Association (ACA), which provided accreditations for all BOP prisons, training centers and its Central Office Headquarters. BOP opted not to renew the $2.75 million …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Officials of Pennsylvania Guards Union Charged with Theft by Five former officials of the Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association (PSCOA) were charged with theft in July 2023 after allegedly misappropriating union funds for personal expenses and conspiring to cover it up. A financial crimes investigation by a state police organized …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Federal Watchdog Finds BOP Staffing, Maintenance in Crisis by The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report in early May 2023, finding “four foundational, enterprise-wide challenges” confronting the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The first involves “weaknesses in the BOP’s internal audit function,” deficiencies …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Imprisoned Former Head of New York City Jails Guards’ Union Granted Release by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 23, 2023, a federal judge who had earlier refused to reduce the sentence of the former head of the New York City jail guards’ union convicted in a costly bribery …
Article • April 19, 2023
“What a Nice House You Have”: Head of R.I. Prison Guard Union Accused of Witness Intimidation by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi Just outside the hearing room of Rhode Island’s House Judiciary Committee on April 4, 2023, a witness supporting a proposed law to limit the use of solitary confinement …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Federal Judge Refuses to Shorten Corruption Sentence for Former Head of New York City Jail Guards’ Union by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 10, 2022, the federal court for the Southern District of New York denied a habeas corpus petition filed by the former head of the union …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Ninth Circuit Says California Felons Can Fight Fires While Imprisoned, But Not After by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart Most prisoners quickly learn that slavery has never been fully abolished in the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution allows prisoners to be compelled to work for little or …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Arizona DOC Accused of Cheating Both Guards and Prisoners Out of Hourly Wages by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Many state prison agencies have in-house for-profit companies that utilize the labor of guards and prisoners to provide products and services to private companies and other state agencies. Not surprisingly, such …
Article • January 20, 2023
Sex Assaults Mount at Illinois Federal Penitentiary, Guards’ Union Calls for Warden’s Removal by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In early January 2023, five prisoners escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary in Thomson, Illinois, according to the union representing the prison’s guards. Local 4070 of the American Federation of …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
CoreCivic Workers Unionize and Go On Strike at Arizona Prison by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart Some 20 newly unionized workers and their supporters manned a picket line at CoreCivic’s Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex (CAFCC) on August 12, 2022, after pay negotiations broke down over a company offer the …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Guards/Staff, Guard Unions
BOP Guard Terminated for Making Prisoner Do His Work, Union Blames Staff Shortages by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian As of March 31, 2022, nearly one-third of guard positions were vacant in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), leaving the remaining guards’ duties “augmented” with additional prisoner supervision. Cooks, nurses, …
Article • May 1, 2022
NYC DOC Internal Affairs Investigator Claims She Was Fired for Not Siding with Guards Union by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott Sarena Townsend, the attorney heading internal affairs investigations for the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC), was abruptly fired by new DOC Commissioner Louis Molina on …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Prison Employee Union Fighting to Stop Closure of San Diego Federal Detention Center by Keith Sanders Marshals Service Also Eyeing Work-around by Keith Sanders On September 21, 2021, a little over a week before the federal government contract was set to expire at the Western Region Detention Facility (WRDF) in …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
St. Louis, Missouri Guard Has History of Taser Abuse by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen A captain with the St. Louis County Justice Center is under investigation for potentially inappropriate use of a Taser in several recent cases. In May 2020, he employed a Taser to subdue a …
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