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The Marshals Service has trouble managing detention

The Government Accountability Office has found the Marshals Service needs to improve its oversight of incarceration facilities.

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Congress calls for more details on federal telework in 2024 spending package

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6-bill minibus rewards some agencies, while slashing budgets for others

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(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)

The Bureau of Prisons and the challenges going into 2024

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FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, an aerial view of the vacant Thomson Correctional Center is seen in Thomson, Ill., before that state sold it to the Bureau of Prisons. An inmate was killed Thursday, March 5, 2020, after being beaten inside the USP Thomson high-security federal prison in Illinois. That's according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Friday. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Happy New Year! Now take this 25% pay cut

A special retention pay authority the Justice department used to retain certain Bureau of Prisons employees expires in a few days. This affects employees…

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FILE - In this May 8, 2008 file photo, blank U.S. Treasury checks are seen on a roll at the Philadelphia Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia. On Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that the argument that Americans rely on the United States Postal Service for Social Security benefits is invalid because the Social Security Administration stopped mailing paper checks in 2013. The SSA encourages Americans to create digital accounts and receive their benefits electronically, but hundreds of thousands of users still count on the USPS to get their checks every month. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Thousands of federal dollars in retention bonuses, are not retained in 2024

In today’s Federal Newscast: Thousands of dollars in retention bonuses, are not retained for the new year. Federal facility safety stations get their first…

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‘Who’s going to run the prison?’ Union says loss of pay bonuses at BOP facility will cause major attrition

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AFGE is urging BOP to renew annual retention incentives for correctional officers at United States Penitentiary Thomson ahead of a planned end of the bonuses on Dec. 31.

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