Justice Department

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

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…

Pay

FILE - A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

New 25% retention bonuses at Bureau of Prisons only a ‘Band-Aid’ for larger staffing issues

Pay

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National Science Foundation HQ with Metro passing by

Exclusive

National Science Foundation to make salary cuts after law shows some feds have been ‘overpaid’ since 2017

Pay

AP/Paul Sancya

How to make furlough a personally fulfilling time

Federal Report

Verizon calls its own foul in how it managed GSA’s cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

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No, showing up (to the office) is not 80% of life

Federal Report

Inspector General detects big polygraph failure at DEA

Federal Newscast

Join us Aug. 21: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington

People

Now both chambers of Congress are investigating Microsoft email breach

Cybersecurity

DoJ’s two big False Claims Act settlements a sign of things to come?

Reporter's Notebook

How regulations not meant for contractors, sometimes end up complicating their business

Contracting

This federal lawyer got a settlement from a powerful industry after a 20-year dispute

When you hit that convenience store for a pack of smokes, you might notice the warning sign. That’s thanks to my next guest. She produced a settlement…

People

DOJ OIP leads effort to set FOIA tool tech standards across government

The Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy is leading a governmentwide effort to set technology standards for tools agencies use to manage…

Technology

DOJ IG Horowitz reviews a decade of Bureau of Prisons crisis oversight

Agency Oversight

Having best places to work, means some employees endure the worst places. And the worst of all, according to the rankings for 2022 compiled by the Partnership for Public Services, is the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), a component of the Justice Department.