Bureau of Prisons

Incarceration in the Age of COVID

Prisons and detention facilities, in general, had some of the toughest challenges getting through the pandemic.

Agency Oversight

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Union leaders say staffing shortages are stretching their agencies thin

Workforce

(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2020, file photo, the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. The federal Bureau of Prisons will begin allowing inmates to have visitors again in October, months after visits were suspended at the 122 federal prisons across the U.S. The visitation plan is detailed in an internal memo issued Monday, Aug. 31, and obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Lawmakers alarmed by high COVID-19 vaccine refusal rate at BOP workforce

Workforce

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011 file photo, correctional officers keep watch on inmates in the recreation yard at Pelican Bay State Prison near Crescent City, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown will appeal a judge's ruling that California must consider earlier parole for potentially thousands of sex offenders, such as those convicted of raping an unconscious person. Corrections department spokeswoman Vicky Waters said the administration will fight the order made final Monday, March 5, 2018, by Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Allen Sumner. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Bureau of Prisons facing challenges with frontline staffing levels

Workforce

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Federal prisons are facing threats from drones dropping contraband, surveilling facilities

Agency Oversight

Bureau of Prisons

Federal prisons and coronavirus: One officer’s view

Federal Report

In this Tuesday, March 24, 2020 photo, forms from the U.S. Census Bureau arrive at a home in Orlando, Fla. The coronavirus has waylaid efforts to get as many people as possible to take part in the census. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

2020 Census count keeps on moving despite pandemic

Federal Newscast

Unions raise coronavirus safety concerns over frontline CBP, VA employees

Unions

Lawsuit says federal employees deserve hazard pay during pandemic

Workforce

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Sometimes federal work is downright hazardous

Federal Report

With the U.S. Capitol building in the background, motorists drive on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in Washington. Officials have urged Washington residents to stay home to contain the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

AFGE sues for hazard pay for federal employees working through coronavirus pandemic

Unions

Space Force has officially started posting job openings

In today’s Federal Newscast, search space-force on USAJobs.gov, and you’ll come up with 39 jobs, and not clerks or mail room staff, either.

Federal Newscast

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, a carrier of Lyme disease. Preliminary indicators show Lyme disease abating during the summer of 2018 in New England, and public health authorities said they are finding fewer ticks in the environment. (CDC via AP, File)

NDAA amendment aims to find out if DoD experimented with weaponized bugs

In today’s Federal Newscast, a proposal in the 2020 defense authorization bill would require the Defense Department Inspector General to tell Congress…

Federal Newscast

DOJ IG highlights data, staffing issues at BOP, departmentwide

Michael Horowitz, DOJ inspector general, outlines issues with the Bureau of Prisons’ data methods, as well as staffing issues at the agency and department-wide.

Bureau of Prisons

Incarceration in the Age of COVID

Union leaders say staffing shortages are stretching their agencies thin

Lawmakers alarmed by high COVID-19 vaccine refusal rate at BOP workforce

Bureau of Prisons facing challenges with frontline staffing levels

Federal prisons are facing threats from drones dropping contraband, surveilling facilities

Federal prisons and coronavirus: One officer’s view

2020 Census count keeps on moving despite pandemic

Unions raise coronavirus safety concerns over frontline CBP, VA employees

Lawsuit says federal employees deserve hazard pay during pandemic

Sometimes federal work is downright hazardous

AFGE sues for hazard pay for federal employees working through coronavirus pandemic

Space Force has officially started posting job openings

NDAA amendment aims to find out if DoD experimented with weaponized bugs

DOJ IG highlights data, staffing issues at BOP, departmentwide

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