Bureau of Prisons
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Sometimes federal employees are eligible for hazardous duty pay. Now a lawsuit alleges numerous employees didn't get it.
April 03, 2020 -
Some exposed employees got the virus in the line of duty. Now they're suing for extra pay.
April 03, 2020 -
The American Federation of Government Employees and the Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch law firm say employees working through the coronavirus pandemic without the proper protective gear are entitled to hazardous duty pay.
March 30, 2020 -
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.
January 29, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a proposal in the 2020 defense authorization bill would require the Defense Department Inspector General to tell Congress if the department experimented with the idea of weaponizing disease-carrying insects.
November 19, 2019 -
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.
May 17, 2019 -
The Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons operates with a complex stew of issues affecting prisoners and guards alike.
December 11, 2018 -
Facing an aging workforce and unanswered questions over the legality of some of its work, Justice Department leaders will have several challenging problems to deal with in the new year.
January 04, 2017 -
Medicare payment rates are supposed to set the medical payment rates for all federal agencies. They do, with one notable exception, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a part of the Justice Department. The Justice Inspector General found that the bureau actually pays a premium to its outside medical providers. Justice IG Michael Horowitz tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how that can be fixed
June 29, 2016 -
Nearly three in every 10 new employees hired by the federal government have worked for Uncle Sam before -- in uniform. But even as the federal government has found success onboarding veteran employees, new questions have been raised about the workplace environments veterans are encountering.
March 10, 2014 -
Employees at TSA, CBP and Bureau of Prisons will no longer be able to work overtime. SSA offers its employees a new round of early retirements to deal with budget shortfalls. AFGE continues to press Congress, White House to stop sequestration.
March 14, 2013 -
This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" National Secretary-Treasurer J. David Cox, 8th District National Vice President Jane Nygaard and Legislative Representative Marilyn Park preview National Nurses Week May 6 - 12. The trio discusses challenges federal nurses face at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Bureau of Prisons and Department of Defense and highlights the union's Nurses Steering Committee.
May 02, 2012 -
The White House today launched the 2011 version of the SAVE award. Employees can submit ideas starting through July 29. Over the past two years, feds offered more than 56,000 potential money-saving ideas.
July 14, 2011 -
Trudy Givens, who works at the Bureau of Prisons in Wisconsin, received more than 20,000 votes for her suggestion to stop printing and mailing the Federal Register to employees. She won the 2010 SAVE Award and talked to President Obama about it Friday.
January 31, 2011 -
Trudy Givens, of Portage, Wisc., beat out more than 18,000 with her idea for an \"opt-in\" option for hard copies of the Federal Register.
November 15, 2010