Bureau of Prisons

• Michael Horowitz: Prison bureau pays premium price for medical care

  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

  Federal Drive

  June 29, 2016
• Veterans make up growing share of federal workforce so why is their morale faltering?

  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.

  Defense

  March 10, 2014
• Agencies suffering reductions in services even before furloughs occur

  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.

  Budget

  March 14, 2013
• AFGE Celebrates National Nurses Week – May 4th, 2012 and May 11th, 2012

  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.

  Congress

  May 02, 2012
• OMB in search of more money saving ideas

  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.

  Budget

  July 14, 2011
• SAVE Award winner presents President with idea

  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.

  Budget

  January 31, 2011
• SAVE Award winner cuts printing, postage costs

  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.

  Budget

  November 15, 2010
• Go inside a federal prison with Mike Causey

  This week, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey talks with Bryan Lowry, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Council of Prison Locals, about what life is like for feds -- and inmates -- in federal prisons.

  Mike Causey

  August 25, 2010
• Thousands of Feds in Prison

  Did you know that every day, thousands of your fellow federal workers go to prison? To find out why they are there and how they do their time check out Senior Correspondent Mike Causey\'s Federal Report today.

  Mike Causey

  July 28, 2010