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Norman A. Carlson
Director
GEO Group, Incorporated
Boca Raton , FL
Sector: SERVICES / Security & Protection Services
74 Years Old
Mr. Carlson has served as a director of GEO since 1994 and served previously as a Director
of The Wackenhut Corporation. Mr. Carlson retired from the Department of Justice in 1987 after serving as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
for 17 years. During his 30-year career, Mr. Carlson worked at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth,
Kansas, and at the Federal Correctional Institution, Ashland, Kentucky. Mr. Carlson
was President of the American Correctional Association from 1978 to 1980, and is a Fellow in the
National Academy of Public
Administration. From 1987 until 1998, Mr. Carlson was Adjunct Professor in the Department
of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.
Director
Compensation (GEO Group, Incorporated)
Fees earned or paid in cash $82,700.00
Stock awards $36,097.00
Option
awards (in $) $0.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation $0.00
Change in pension value and nondisqualified
compensation earnings $0.00
All other compensation $735,687.00
Total Compensation $854,484.00
Director
Compensation (GEO Group, Incorporated)
Fees earned or paid in cash $60,450.00
Stock awards $12,880.00
Option
awards (in $) $0.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation $0.00
Change in pension value and nondisqualified
compensation earnings $306,675.00
All other compensation $33,839.00
Total Compensation $413,844.00
John M. Hurley
President, Divisional/Senior VP
GEO Group, Incorporated
Boca Raton ,
FL
Sector: SERVICES / Security & Protection Services
Officer since January 2000
60
Years Old
As GEO's Senior Vice President since 2000 and President of U.S. Corrections since late 2006, Mr. Hurley is responsible for the overall administration
and management of GEO's U.S. detention and correctional facilities. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Hurley served as Warden of GEO's South Bay, Florida
correctional facility. Prior to joining GEO in 1998, Mr. Hurley was employed
by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons for 26 years. During his tenure, he served as Warden at three different
Bureau facilities. He also served as Director of the Bureau's Staff Training Center in Glynco,
Georgia. Mr. Hurley received his bachelor's degree from the University of
Iowa in Sociology and a Certificate in Public Administration from the University
of Southern California, Washington D.C. extension campus.
Compensation
Salary $349,269.00
Bonus
$0.00
Other Annual Compensation $0.00
Long term incentive plan payouts $0.00
Restricted
stock awards $111,456.00
Security underlying options $0.00
All other compensation $6,280.00
Option awards $ $7,161.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation $226,000.00
Change in pension value
and nonqualified $71,583.00
Total Compensation $771,749.00
Options Granted during Fiscal Year
Option #1 Option #2 Option #3
Grant Date 05/09/2007 05/04/2006 08/05/2004
All other stock awards (# of shares of stocks
or units) 12,000 9,486 -
Number of securities underlying options - - 4,830
Exercise or base price
$ - $ - $18.25
Percent of total options granted in fiscal year 0% 0% 3.4%
Grant date fair value of stock and option awards $308,940.00
$247,900.00 $ -
Expiration date - - 08/05/2014
Value of options potential value 5% $ - $ - $55,435.00
Value of options potential value 10% $ -
$ - $140,484.00
Estimated future payouts under non-equity incentive plan awards (threshold $) $78,750.00
$74,475.00 $ -
Estimated future payouts under non-equity incentive plan awards (target $) $157,500.00
$148,950.00 $ -
Estimated future payouts under non-equity incentive plan awards (maximum $) $354,375.00
$372,375.00 $ -
Estimated future payouts under non-equity incentive plan awards (threshold #) - -
-
Estimated future payouts under non-equity incentive plan awards (target #) - - -
Estimated
future payouts under non-equity incentive plan awards (maximum #) - - -
Options Exercised
Number
of securities underlying options exercisable 70,130
Number of securities underlying options unexercisable 15,027
Value
of unexercised options, currently exercisable $701,601.00
Value of unexercised options, currently unexercisable
$137,154.00
FINAL COMPENSATION $771,749.00
Richard P. Seiter
Executive VP/Other Executive Officer
Corrections
Corp of America
Nashville , TN
Sector: FINANCIAL / Property Management
Officer
since January 2005
59 Years Old
Richard P. Seiter, age 59, has served as an Executive Vice President and our Chief Corrections Officer since January 2005. Prior to joining the Company and since 1999, Mr. Seiter
served as an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Seiter has served as a Warden with the Federal Bureau of Prisons
(Federal Correctional Institution, Greenville, Illinois and Federal Prison Camp,
Allenwood, Pennsylvania), as chief operating officer of Federal Prison Industries
and as director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
Mr. Seiter has authored two textbooks on corrections, Corrections: An Introduction (2005) and Correctional Administration:
Integrating Theory and Practice (2002), both published by Prentice Hall, and has served as editor of Corrections Management
Quarterly. Mr. Seiter holds a B.S. in Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Ohio State University.
Compensation
Salary $295,075.00
Bonus $0.00
Other Annual Compensation $0.00
Long term incentive plan payouts $0.00
Restricted stock awards $431,087.00
Security underlying options $0.00
All other compensation $37,393.00
Option awards $ $201,739.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation $442,613.00
Change in pension value and nonqualified $2,745.00
Total Compensation $1,410,652.00
Options Granted during Fiscal Year
Option #1 Option #2 Option
#3 Option #4 Option #5
Grant Date 02/16/2007 02/16/2007 02/15/2006 02/15/2006 02/16/2005
All other stock awards (#
of shares of stocks or units) - - - - -
Number of securities underlying options -
- - - 45,000
Exercise or base price $ - $26.53 $ - $28.54 $39.16
Percent
of total options granted in fiscal year 0% 0% 0% 0% 15.8%
Grant date fair value of stock and option awards $347,649.00
$320,892.00 $333,918.00 $324,435.00 $ -
Expiration date - - - - 02/16/2015
Value of options potential value 5% $ - $ - $ - $ - $1,108,238.00
Value of options potential
value 10% $ - $ - $ - $ - $2,808,493.00
Estimated future payouts under non-equity incentive
plan awards (threshold $) $ - $ - $ - $ - $ -
Estimated future payouts under non-equity
incentive plan awards (target $) $ - $ - $ - $ - $ -
Estimated future payouts under non-equity
incentive plan awards (maximum $) $ - $ - $ - $ - $ -
Estimated future payouts under non-equity
incentive plan awards (threshold #) 6,552 - 5,850 - -
Estimated future payouts under non-equity incentive
plan awards (target #) 9,828 - 8,775 - -
Estimated future payouts under non-equity incentive plan awards
(maximum #) 13,104 - 11,700 - -
Options Exercised
Number of securities underlying options
exercisable 45,000
Value of unexercised options, currently exercisable $261,450.00
FINAL COMPENSATION
$1,410,652.00
COUNCIL OF PRISON LOCALS
AFGE
UPDATED LEGISLATIVE ACTION
The Council and AFGE are working on legislative issues dealing with the terrible loss of Correctional Officer Jose Rivera
and what we see some of the causes were. Our focus is staffing up the penitentiary housing units, getting protective equipment
on board quickly, and making sure that all institutions are dealing with the disruptive inmates appropriately.
We continue to work on other legislative issues, such as the TSP fix, privatization and other less important things than
the loss of life we just experienced. Our priority must be the stabilization of the penitentiary violence and stopping the
assaults against staff.
*HR 6462, The Jose Rivera Correctional Officer Protection Act, July 10th, 2008,
filed by Congressman Dennis Cardoza (D-CA). This bill mandates the purchase of stab resistant vests by the Bureau of Prisons
for all correctional officers. The Council supports this legislation and would like all locals to request co-sponsors.
*The House and Senate Appropriations Committee’s have passed FY 2009 spending bills
for BOP. However, these will probably not get passed into law. With the election’s coming, it appears a Continuing Resolution
will be passed at some point to fund government through next year. We are requesting Congress increase our funding in any
C.R. to at least the 2009 amount which in both the House and Senate bills, are more than the White House requested.
*On June 20th, the House and Senate passed the Emergency Supplemental Funding
for Iraq, Afganistan, Veterans, Worker’s and Midwest disasters. This included 178 million in appropriations for BOP.
This funding will ensure we don’t go into deficit at the end of the fiscal year and may provide a small amount of additional
spending for Overtime, hiring, and equipment.
*HR 5674, Correctional Officer Safety Act, filed by Congressman Meek (D-FL) now has 39 Co-sponsors.
We are hopeful this bill, which mandates BOP to provide storage for firearms at work, will pass this year.
*HR 6157, A bill to correct the Pension Protection Act needs a definition change under "public
safety officer" to include us and fix our TSP penalty. We are working with Congressman Meek’s staff on this issue.
*HR 1889, Private Prison Information Act, filed by Congressman Tim Holden (D-PA), the Judiciary
Committee held a hearing on this June 26th, 2008. It simply makes private correctional companies give up the same
information as public prisons.
*The Council and AFGE are requesting Congressional Hearings on Correctional Officer health
and safety in the coming months.
*We are pursuing meetings with influential law makers to increase funding for increased
staff at all federal institutions.
*The CPL and AFGE continue to push media outlets for stories on our issues and solutions
to the problem of overcrowded, understaffed prisons.
UPDATE ON LEGISLATION
BOP APPROPRIATIONS FOR
FY 2009
It
is to early yet to see what our final spending amounts will be for fiscal year 2009. The President requested 5.53 billion
in funding for BOP in FY 2009.
The Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives
under the Chairmanship of Congressman Alan Mollohan(D-WV) has marked up a bill funding us at 5.7 billion dollars. This is
200 million more than the President's request.
In the Senate, Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), of the CJS subcommittee
on appropriations just passed a 5.974 billion dollar spending amount for FY 2009. This amount is over 400 million dollars
higher than the President's request.
In both of the bills we do not yet know the breakdown between Salaries and Expenses
funding and Building and Facilities amounts.
We do know that getting a completed bill passed and signed into law by the
President will be tough this year. All indications show we will probably end up with a Continuing Resolution into the next
year. During election years, sometimes the CR's go into the following year, in our case 2009. We will keep you posted on movement
with the appropriations through the process.
UPDATED LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS
FUNDING OF BUREAU OF PRISONS
As many of you are aware, on May 15, the House of Representatives voted to include 178 million dollars to the Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations bill for additional FY 2008, Salaries and Expenses BOP funding. The vote in the House was 256
for, 166 against Amendment #3, which included spending for an enhanced GI Bill of Rights, additional unemployment compensation
for those running out of benefits, and BOP funding.
The funding in the house was championed by Chairman Alan Mollohan (D-WV), Chairman David Obey (D-WI), and Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer (D-MD).
The Senate voted on May 22nd, for the same amendment that passed in the House. The amendment was split off of
the military spending because Republican’s wanted a clean war funding bill with no domestic spending. Even though this
was the case the vote on the amendment adding 178 million in BOP S&E funding, passed the Senate with a 75 for, 22 against
margin.
If the bills are identical, they should be cleared and sent to the President for either Veto or signature. If they have
some differences (I don’t know of any at this point) they will have to be reconciled and then voted on for final passage
after the Memorial Day break which ends June 3rd. The President has stated he would veto the measure because it
spends more than he wanted.
At this point, all prison locals should contact both their House and Senate representatives (the votes have been previously
sent out) and ask them to override any veto by the President and pass the funding.
We also need to thank National President Gage, Legislative and Political Director Moten, and Lobbyist Alan Kadrofske for
their raising our funding at every turn. Meetings were held with Speaker of the House Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, Chairman
Obey, Majority Leader of the Senate Reid, Chairman Byrd, and Chairwoman Mikulski to put this funding in the Emergency Supplemental.
While we have made contact on the FY 2009 Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies appropriations bill, after passage
of the FY 2008 supplemental, we need to turn our attention to increases in funding both for operations and building new prisons
starting next fiscal year.
Please keep making appointments and keep raising our issues with members of Congress as this is the only way we can be
safer in the upcoming year.
In Unity,
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator
Council of Prison Locals, AFGE
***First, it should be noted that National President Gage met with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority
Leader Hoyer, Chairman David
Obey and spoke on the phone with Senator Barbara Mikulski on our behalf (there may have
been more he spoke with, but, these were the main people behind this language. Beth Moten met with Chairman Obey, Chairman
Mollohan, Senator Reid and other's staff as well. I say this because this was a big push and
I want you all to understand the help we received. Of course many of us met with our legislator's and pushed for the funding
also, but, it is good when the folks at the top understand the importance of our issues.
The House placed 178 million dollars into the Supplemental Funding bill for BOP funding. This would get us through the
year without too much pain. We are still not in great shape and will have to push for the full 500 million for next year.
The Senate bill also includes the 178 million dollar language.
I have contacted Senator's Durbin, Biden, Specter, Casey, Schumer, Kennedy, Mikulski and Congressman Murtha, Mollohan, Carney, Shuster, Scott, Conyer's,
staff and asked them to support keeping this language in any final package. Please do the same with your members of Congress
and the Senate.
My understanding is President
Bush has threatened a veto of this bill because he doesn't like the additional items for housing and entitlements for
veterans education benefits. At this point he has not mentioned vetoing this because of prison spending.
Our issue now is if the bill passes with our language in tact, and he veto's it, we will need to mobilize. As much as
we are mobilizing on this gun bill, we will need everyone to mobilize on the funding measure. Our fight will be to keep our
language in any compromise bill that is redrafted due to a presidential veto.
The House is supposed to vote on this May 14th. With the Senate following either the same day or the next day. That is
the schedule right now. It could change at a moments notice.
When a full bill is placed on Thomas.gov for review I will get it out to you.
I believe the BOP and DOJ want the funding but I don't know what the Office of Management and Budget is going to say
about it yet.
Please feel free to send this to your Presidents. I will forward to the legislative coordinators. They may want to contact
their representatives now and ask them to keep this language in any version of the supplemental spending bill for FY 2008.
I hope this brings you up to date.
Phil Glover
POLITIC’S AND LEGISLATIVE ACTION
WHAT WE MUST FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO.
Many of us who have served on the Council and now work for the Council have been trying for years to figure out how
to motivate our membership. We need members to participate in campaigns, in legislative action and generally in our locals.
Yet, we can’t seem to connect our members to how putting people in office helps their work lives.
Take our current situation. Many in the Council would not work for our vote for Former Vice President, Al Gore, whether
it was personality, or that President George W. Bush would be more fun to have a beer with, we couldn’t connect the
issue of person and work life.
When President Clinton left office we were staffed at 96 % on average nationwide. We had access to the White House through
AFGE and the Vice President’s office. In fact, in 1996, then National President, John Sturdivant was asked to help BOP
union members when it became obvious we were under attack by management. At one point 14 percent of union official’s
nationwide were either under investigation, under proposed discipline, or on "home duty". By early 1997, NP Sturdivant had
gone through Vice President Gore’s office and the Attorney General (through her Deputy, Eric Holder) set up meetings
with AFGE, CPL and the BOP.
This resulted in new rules on the use of home duty and many of these cases being cleaned up. We also finally had a new
contract. This information was all put out prior to VP Gore running for President. Yet, we could not get prison worker’s
to rally’s, we couldn’t get them to raise or buy into AFGE PAC, or even register to vote.
This happened again when in 2004, John Kerry became the nominee. Even though he pledged to stop the privatization of prisons,
take staffing back to the time of President Clinton, and work to increase union rights, we couldn’t get many locals
to even engage.
And so what do we have now.....14 private prisons housing federal inmates, management who pushes things like Mission Critical
and Searching of Staff down are throat’s without bargaining, 86.6 percent average staffing levels, 2,300 cut’s
to positions, prison construction basically at a stand still, and more inmates coming into the system.
So the question becomes how do we activate people to work on campaigns, give PAC money, register to vote, and vote for
candidates who will help us?
As in every election year we are asking you to join Labor 2008. Work at the grass root’s level for candidates that
support Federal Employee issues. Give PAC money or at least donate to the campaign of your choice. I started out this year
supporting Senator Joe Biden, He had been the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he is a foreign affairs expert, was a great
presenter. As the primary process has moved on, he is now out. So, I have found a new candidate to support. There are three
left. McCain, Clinton and Obama are who eventually will be the President of the United States. Each of them will still be
sitting Senator’s after this election is over. So, please pick a candidate, take a little of your time, give a little
money, and work for someone. This get’s connections going with their campaign staff and personal staff. It build’s
your influence in your state. As prison worker’s we need to be on the agenda and this is a way to get there.
So please, come out and help. All of us would appreciate it.
In Unity,
Phil Glover
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
MARCH 2008
On Wednesday, March 5, 2008, myself, NERVP Bill Gillette and SERVP, Eric Young were in Washington holding
legislative meetings. SERVP Young had gotten a meeting with Congressman Kendrick Meek (D-FL). We met with the Congressman
and explained many of our issues. As a former Law Enforcement Officer he wanted to take the lead in fixing the LEOSA issues
facing BOP staff. He also agreed we needed appropriate funding to be safe at work.
We then had a meeting with Congressman Chris Carney (D-PA) who has Allenwood, Caanan, and Lewisburg
prisons in his district. We are working with his staff on a letter requesting additional funding and also introducing a bill
to eliminate the early penalty when withdrawing our TSP, Temporary Employees buy back and the issue of the TSP board restricting
transactions. This bill should be filed after the Easter recess.
From March 10-13th, Mark Sewak, VP, Local 3951 and I had legislative meetings on Capitol Hill. The
agenda continues to be funding, staffing levels, assaults, FPI, TSP fix, Temporary Employee fix, TSP transactions and the
LEOSA fix. We also attended, with Council President, Bryan Lowry, Western Regional VP, Tim DeBolt, and AFGE lobbyist Alan
Kadrofske, the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related agencies Appropriations subcommittee hearing on March 12th
at 2:00PM. The Director testified at this hearing so we were able to hear the questions and answers first hand. We will request
a copy of the record.
The Director testified on March 12th and the Subcommittee Chairman, Alan Mollohan (D-WV)
was obviously briefed very well on our problems. He repeatedly asked pointed questions on safety, security, assaults, funding,
FPI, and specifically asked about prisons located in his home district. He pushed the Director on safe staffing levels, how
many positions were needed, and kept telling the Director he was trying to help him. Ranking Member Frelinghuysen (R-NJ),
asked questions about the inmate population, gangs, terrorists and our staffing. Congressman Harold Rogers (R-KY) and former
Chairman of the Committee, asked questions regarding overcrowding, the age of facilities, assaults, staffing levels and specifically
asked how many positions it would take this year to run a safe prison system. Of course the Director answered some of these
questions directly and some not so directly.
We are working through meetings with both Appropriations Committee members and Judiciary Committee
members in the House and Senate.
We met with Congressman John Murtha’s new Legislative Director. As the second ranking Congressman
on the Appropriations committee we asked for him to support and push a supplemental appropriations bill to increase our 2008
funding. A follow up meeting with the Congressman’s Chief of Staff will be held in the District the week of March 24th.
After meeting with Senator Schumer’s staff at the Legislative Conference, with FCI Otisville,
L-3860, they assisted us in contacting several members of the Crime and Drug Subcommittee on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
During the week, meetings were held with Senator Kennedy’s staff, second in Seniority on the
Judiciary Committee. We went over the cut’s to staffing, while other Law Enforcement Agencies have increased. We discussed
assaults, inmate idleness, shortage of funding and overcrowding. As the Senator also Chairs the Committee on Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions we also discussed our 10 percent penalty for withdraw of TSP funds, Temporary Employee buy back, and the
TSP transaction limitations put on federal employees.
A legislative conference call was held with members in the SER. AFGE staff, including Bob Nicklas and
Yolanda Taylor, SERVP Eric Young and Regional Legislative Coordinator Dan Ditto participated with members of seven locals.
How to increase participation in legislative activities, getting our message out, working with members of Congress in the
local area all were discussed. We will be holding these calls with each region. The RVP’s have been asked for dates
that may work over the next several months.
Meetings were held with AFGE, National President, John Gage to go over the legislative and media plan
developed the week CPL E-board met with members of the NEC in Arkansas.
Alan Kadrofske, AFGE Lobbyist secured a meeting with staff from Senator Barbara Mikulski’s (D-MD)
office, she is the Chairwomen of the Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies in the
Senate. We had a long meeting with her staff and he was very versed in the issues facing BOP. They are working to approve
additional funding for FY 2008 and working to ensure FY 2009 doesn’t have the problems we had this year. We will be
following up with her staff and personally with her through Joe Flynn, AFGE, NVP 4th District.
Our last meeting of the week was with the Crime and Drug subcommittee staffer who runs the committee
for Chairman Biden. We again went over all the issues with him and he will follow up with us in the coming weeks. All our
meetings went very well and it seems many members want to support our issues.
I hope this gives you an idea of our activities the last couple of weeks and I will be updating you
more as we keep moving our agenda ahead.
In Unity,
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator
Council of Prison Locals, AFGE
Phil Glover's April 2, 2008 Testimony
Chairman Mollohan, Ranking Member Frelinghuysen and subcommittee members. My name
is Phil Glover, and I am the National Legislative Director for the Council of Prison Locals, American Federation of Government
Employees, AFL-CIO, which represents the 28,000 bargaining unit employees in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Department
of Justice. I want to thank the subcommittee for inviting us to present the viewpoint of the men and women working behind
the fences and walls in secure facilities throughout the United States. In attendance today is our Council President, Bryan
Lowry and members from our three of our local unions from Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Our union represents correctional officers, unit management staff, food service staff, warehouse staff, inmate
systems staff, Federal Prison Industries staff, education and recreation staff, health services staff, business office staff-
all of whom are considered federal law enforcement officers. All staff recieve basic correctional training and yearly refresher
training. All staff recieve firearms training and self-defense training. They are good at their jobs and simply want to be
supported by the President and the Congress so they are not put at unacceptable risk when reporting for duty each day.
While it is understood this hearing is about FY 2009 funding, I want to briefly mention FY 2008
and its challenges. As you know, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 cut federal prison funding by 121 million below
the House’s proposal and 101 million below the President’s request. Prior to this, we knew that the President’s
request for 2008 was inadequate to properly fund a safe and secure prison system. The BOP for FY 2008 is actually in a shortfall
of 433 million dollars in its Salaries and Expenses account. We want to thank the committee for its recent action approving
a reprogramming of 109 million dollars from DOJ. While this is a start, we remain concerned about losing any more line staff
at our facilities. As it stands now, BOP may still have to look at either furloughs or lay offs of line employees to meet
the funding requirements of 2008. We have already eliminated 2,300 positions between 2005 and 2007. We consolidated functions
in Inmate Systems and Human Resources, we shut down four (4) federal prison camps, we cut travel, training, and equipment
purchases. We have slowed the opening of new prisons and have not built prison’s to keep up with the increases of the
inmate population.
Over seventy percent of the Salaries and Expense (operational) budgets at our institutions go
to staffing costs. Currently, we have 39,383 authorized positions in the BOP. Actually filled positions are 34,098 as of January
2008. This is a staffing percentage of 86.6 percent. In the late 1990’s our staffing level averages at most institutions
were 95 to 96 percent. It is obvious we have not kept pace with the inmate population. In fact, the inmate population since
the early 1990s has increased nearly 250 percent, while staffing only increased by approximately 125 percent. While large
states have inmate to staff ratio’s at 1 inmate to 3.3 staff, the BOP’s ratio is 1 inmate to 4.92 staff.
Should the Congress and the Department of Justice not be able to agree on additional reprogramming,
our staffing level percentages may decrease to as low as 76 percent staffing on average at each federal prison. We also believe
the OMB-approved request of 240 million dollars in reprogramming is not sufficient to keep the Bureau funded through the end
of FY 2008. Each year, and this year is not looking any different, we have been placed under a continuing resolution at the
end of the fiscal year. This has created a situation where we have to operate at the last fiscal years level of funding well
into the new year. If this occurs again, the Congress must move our funding up in any continuing resolution to the next fiscal
year’s requested amount.
Some of the reasons for the FY 2008 shortfall are as follows. The Consolidated Appropriations
Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-161) provided for $5,050,440,000 for BOP operational expenses (S&E) which was only $55 million above
the fiscal year 2007 enacted level of $4,995,433,000. This $55 million increase was $101 million below President Bush’s
FY 2008 requested increase of $156 million, $121 million below the House’s FY 2008 recommended increase of $176 million,
and 101 million below the Senate’s FY 2008 recommended increase. Other reasons for the FY 2008 shortfall were increases
in inmate medical care ($45 million), agency contributions to LEO FERS retirement ($21 million), 2007 base adjustment gap
($60 million), utility cost increase ($35 million), and a pay raise adjustment ($14 million). These additional amounts were
taken out of staffing our prisons and should be taken into account in any new appropriations bill.
The effect of the shortfall will again force the BOP to cut additional positions, overtime,
purchasing of equipment, vehicles, and training. The BOP has already begun filling housing unit correctional posts with non-correctional
officers (phone monitors, tool control officers, compound officers and others) to avoid the payment of overtime.
Inmate-on-inmate and inmate-on-staff assault levels have risen over the years to what the union
believes are unacceptable levels. We are hopeful additional resources will be brought to bear in those institutions where
assaults are up. We should not wait until a correctional worker is carried out of a prison as has happened twenty three times
in the past. So far this year there have been 13 homicides (inmate on inmate). Last year, there were 12 homicides (inmate
on inmate) total.
The President’s fiscal year 2009 request of $5,435,754,000 in Salaries and Expense funding
and $95,907,000 in Buildings and Facilities funding is once again not keeping up with reality in federal prisons. It is expected
we will see about the same number of new inmates into the system next year. This budget request first doesn’t take into
account the bed space needs of additional inmates to lower overcrowding and doesn’t recognize that 36 of our federal
prisons are 50 years of age and older. There are over 100 federal prisons. How can an average of less than $1,000,000 per
prison keep them running safely? As has been pointed out by both the Director and now the union, staffing levels are not rising
as fast as the inmate population and assault rates are up. While 385 million dollars increase in FY 2009 funding for the Salaries
and Expenses account is better than last year, it does not take into account increases in medical, overtime, pay, health insurance,
retirement, and other costs. We respectfully request a full $500 million above the President’s Salaries and Expenses
request and a full $400 million dollars for the Buildings and Facilities account to repair older prisons and build some new
ones.
Our union is strongly concerned about Section 827 of last year’s Department of Defense
Authorization Act of 2008, a provision that significantly changes the Federal Prison Industries prison inmate work program.
FPI is a program that produces goods and services for the federal government, some under what is called "mandatory source"
and some under competitive procedures. This program was created in 1934 by Congress to help control prison inmates. The Section
827 changes to the FPI program may eliminate up to 6,500 inmates and cut 500 more correctional staff. FPI sales pay the inmates,
the staff, and the costs of operating the program. If BOP were to create a program similar to it, it would cost about $800
million in Salaries and Expenses funding. We urge you and your colleagues to look at the Section 827 changes and modify them
or create other opportunities for inmate work. We must keep these offenders productively occupied in order to keep federal
prisons safe.
Our union also is concerned about the trend to privatize federal prison work. We believe
the committee was on the right track last year when they eliminated funding for A-76 processes. We are hopeful this will pass
the committee again. Additionally, we believe the committee should review these private prison contracts. It has been reported
that private prisons are not saving taxpayers dollars. Also, if any of them show a small savings it is due to the fact that
they are not required to provide the same level of programs to inmates as the federal government is. Indeed, once
these private operators get the contracts, some have attempted to renegotiate for higher prices. In one case, a private prison
in Youngstown, OH, received a $100,000 bonus for having no violence in a four-month period. Each federal prison in the public
sector would like a program like that! Give federal employees bonuses if we keep our prisons running without violence for
four months at a time and let the staff split the money. This truly needs looked at, including the revolving door of wardens
and upper level managers rotating to the private prison contractors.
It is imperative that prison construction start to keep up with the population increases. We
should be updating technology in current prisons adding new computers, work stations, radios, stab-proof vests, and less than
lethal weapons. This should be a priority of the President and Congress to fully fund a law enforcement agency charged with
keeping communities safe.
During a time when law enforcement agencies have seen huge increases, the Federal Bureau of
Prisons has suffered stagnating budgets. Prisons should be seen as a part of the law enforcement system. As the government
apprehends and convicts more individuals of crime, federal prisons should be built and staffed appropriately. It is projected
in FY 2008 that we will receive a 7,400 net increase in the inmate population – while we put one new prison on line
that will house about 1,500 medium security inmates this fiscal year. Where will the additional inmates go? Into gymnasiums,
TV rooms, hallways, triple and quadruple bunking, you name it. We will put inmates everywhere.
Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, we are asking for your help. Our staffing is low,
our assault rates are up and inmates continue to flood into the system. We hope you will recognize this and do all you can
to increase our staffing levels at an acceptable percentage.
Thank you for your time and attention.
BUREAU OF PRISONS: FY 2008 FUNDING PROBLEM
Summary
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has informed the AFGE Council of Prison Locals (CPL) that
BOP is facing a projected FY 2008 shortfall of $433 million in its operational "salaries and expenses" account. To help reduce
this shortfall, BOP has identified $143 million in possible reductions, including delaying the opening of the new Pollock,
LA prison, not replacing vehicles and equipment, eliminating overtime, reducing correctional officer training, etc.
But even with these reductions, BOP will be left with $289 million in unfunded "base"
spending requirements – the majority of which are related to correctional officer staffing. BOP has told the CPL that
the agency will be forced to cut 4,000 BOP correctional staff positions if BOP does not obtain an additional $289 million
in FY 2008 funding via this spring’s FY 2008 supplemental appropriations bill.
Discussion
FY 2008 Shortfall
The Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 2008 (P.L. 110-161), signed into law on December
16, 2007, provides $5,050,440,000 for the BOP operational "salaries and expenses" account - which is only $55 million (or
1.1%) above the FY 2007 enacted level of $4,995,433,000. This $55 million increase was $101 million below President
Bush’s FY 2008 requested increase of $156 million, $121 million below the House’s FY 2008 recommended increase
of $176 million, and $101 million below the Senate’s FY 2008 recommended increase.
Based on the estimated FY 2008 "base" spending requirements and the total FY 2008 funding
available, BOP is projecting a $433 million shortfall in FY 2008.
Enacted FY 2008 Level $5,050,440,000
Estimated Prior Year Carryover $ 15,000,000
Estimated Reimbursements $ 32,000,000
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Total FY 2008 Funding Available $5,097,440,000
LESS Estimated FY 2008 "Base" Requirements -$5,530,273,000
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Current Estimated FY 2008 Shortfall -$ 432,833,000
To help reduce this FY 2008 shortfall, BOP has identified $143 million in possible reductions,
including delaying the opening of the new Pollock, LA, not replacing vehicles and equipment, eliminating overtime, reducing
training, etc. But even with these reductions, BOP will be left with $289 million in unfunded "base" spending requirements
– the majority of which are related to correctional staffing. BOP has informed the AFGE Council of Prison Locals that
it will be forced to cut 4,000 BOP correctional staff jobs if BOP does not obtain an additional $289 million in FY 2008 funding
via this spring’s FY 2008 supplemental appropriations legislation.
FY 2005-2007 Under funding
Despite the significant increase of the "base" BOP operational spending requirements,
the majority of which involve correctional officer staffing, Congress has continued – year after year – to under
fund the BOP operational "salaries and expenses" account. For example:
FY 2005: Congress provided $4,627,696,000
for the BOP "salaries and expense" account, an increase of $166,439,000 (or 3.7%) over the FY 2004 level of $4,461,257,000.
However, this FY 2005 appropriation was $78,536,000 less than President Bush’s FY 2005 budget request of $4,706,232,000.
It also was $49,518,000 less than President Bush’s previous year (i.e. FY 2004) budget request of $4,677,214,000.
FY 2006: While lawmakers provided
a FY 2006 funding increase of $259 million for the BOP "salaries and expenses" account, internal BOP documents in January
2006 demonstrated that BOP was projecting a FY 2006 shortfall of $242,700,300.
FY 2007: The final FY 2007 year-long
CR included a $143 million increase in the BOP "salaries and expenses" account – and increase which failed to compensate
for the FY 2006 shortfall, let alone deal with the increasing correctional officer under staffing problem.
This under funding by Congress of the BOP operational "salaries and expenses" account over the FY 2005-2007
period forced BOP to take a number of actions to streamline operations and reduce costs. These actions involved permanent
changes to BOP operations which reduced costs by about $270 million over the three year period. For example, BOP: (1) eliminated
over 2,300 positions, (2) closed four federal prison camps, (3) consolidated human resources functions at a central location
in Grand Prairie, TX (accomplished by reducing and transferring positions from institutions, regional and central offices),
and (4) consolidated inmate designation and sentence computation functions at a central location in Grand Prairie, TX (accomplished
by reducing and transferring positions from institutions, regional and central offices.)
In addition, BOP made temporary annual reductions in a variety of areas such as: travel,
equipment and replacement vehicle purchases, correctional officer training, etc. For the last three fiscal years (FY 2005-2007),
these temporary annual reductions taken by BOP averaged more than $100 million.
FY 2008 Correctional Officer Under staffing: Bad to Worse
After all these spending reductions in FY 2005-2007, BOP is now facing $289 million in
unfunded FY 2008 "base" spending requirements – the majority of which are related to correctional officer staffing.
The agency will be forced to cut 4,000 BOP correctional officer staff jobs if BOP cannot obtain an additional $289 million
in FY 2008 funding via the FY 2008 supplemental appropriations legislation.
BOP, however, is strongly opposed to making such deep correctional officer staffing cuts.
The agency believes they would endanger the safety and security of correctional officers and prison inmates. An internal BOP
document states:
"…after all the actions already taken [in FY 2005-2007], we [BOP]
are at a point where we have nothing left to cut. Over 70% of the
Salaries and Expenses’ (operational) budgets at our institutions go
to staffing costs. In addition to reducing the over 2,300 positions
mentioned above, we have had to reduce the level at which we are
able to staff positions in our institutions. In prior years,
we were able
to provide funding to fill 93% of positions authorized. That level is
now down to 89-90% and is getting to the point where the safety
and security of staff and inmates could be in jeopardy."
In reality, BOP’s own data demonstrate that the current correctional officer staffing
level is at 86.6% - not 89-90% - and therefore the point already has been reached where the safety and security of correctional
staff and prison inmates are in jeopardy.
BOP authorized positions: 39,383
Current onboard as of the 26th pay period: -34,098
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Number of unstaffed BOP positions: 5,285
Current BOP staffing level percentage: 86.6%
But the cutting of 4,000 correctional staff personnel as a result of a $289 million shortfall
in FY 2008 funding would make a bad situation even worse. Such a drastic cut would bring BOP staffing levels down to a dangerously
low 76.4%.
BOP Authorized Positions: 39,383
Current Onboard as of the 26th pay period
(34,098) minus projected loss of 4,000
correctional staff personnel: -30,098
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Number of unstaffed BOP positions: 9,285
Projected BOP staffing level percentage: 76.4%
LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE 2008
legeslative conference 2008
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:
FEBRUARY 2008
The Council just completed AFGE's Legislative Conference week. We believe it went well. As it has been
put out, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 (essentially a deal struck between the White house and Congress) cut
over 100 million in funding from the BOP short of even the President’s initial request. We were already about 300 million
underfunded for 2008.
We had a great turnout at the conference. Many locals were in attendance and we presented our issues
to members of Congress. We received some commitments to push for additional funding, fix LEOSA, provide safer working conditions
for staff, correct some disparities in our retirement, and continue to fight against contracting out.
Key legislator’s were met with including the Chairman of our appropriations committee in the
House of Representatives, Alan Mollohan (D-WV) and his staff. Thanks to AFGE’s Congressional Reception and Beth Moten,
Legislative and Political Director of AFGE, I was able to talk about prison issues with House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer
(D-MD). We will be following up with his staff in the weeks to come. Senator Specter (R-PA), Ranking Member on the Senate
Judiciary Committee met with a group of prison staff from Pennsylvania and committed to helping on several key issues. Our
locals with key members on committees of jurisdiction to prisons carried our issues forward. Otisville, NY met with Sen. Schumer’s
(D-NY) staff which has now led to meetings with Sen. Biden’s (D-DE) staff on the Judiciary Committee. Yazoo City, MS
took our issues to Sen. Thad Cochran’s ®-MS) staff who is Ranking Member on appropriations in the Senate. Texarkana,
TX arranged a meeting with the new Ranking Member on the Crime Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, Louie Gohmert
®-TX) who is helping with LEOSA and safety issues. While I cannot list all the meetings here, these are some of the highlights
I was given information about.
Also while at the conference we firmed up Legislative Coordinators for each of the regions. A list
has been sent out to the RVP’s and should be forwarded to each local President soon. We held a meeting of the legislative
coordinators and discussed many items about legislative action. We are going to build a quick reaction team concept to get
legislative information to locals and coordinate feedback back to the Council and AFGE Legislative Department. We are also
looking at technology to gain an edge when discussing our issues with Congress by creating either DVD type programs or U-Tube
type programs with clips of disturbances, assaults, and other incidents in Federal Prisons. Our belief is that if we can visually
show these things to members of Congress and their staff, we will be more successful in explaining why our budgets are too
short and we need additional funding.
We are kicking off Labor 2008 with an invitation to each of our lawmakers to visit the prison in their
Districts and States. Either by E-mail or in person every President will have received a draft letter to make the invitation.
Our target date for these visits is the next Congressional recess, March 16-24, 2008.
Campaign season is heating up and each member must decide who they will vote for. The union will be
sending out information on candidates, as your church, your school associations, your social clubs may do as well. We are
not "telling" you how to vote. We are presenting information on what candidates might make our jobs a little better. Please
take it into account along with all the other factors you are concerned with. Make an informed choice. Your union is representing
the work life and as such pushes work site issues.
As we move forward, we ask each of you to get involved in the campaign of your choice, register to
vote, participate with your union. It helps everyone if you get involved.
If you attended the Legislative Conference please follow up with your members of Congress on the issues
you presented. If you didn’t attend, meet with your members back in your home state and district offices. We look forward
to reversing a lot of items in 2008 and 2009. Help us get there.
In Unity,
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator, CPL
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, DECEMBER 2007
I hope all of you had a great year and hope you have a happy holiday season. It has been a mixed year
legislatively. We gained some things as federal employees and lost in some areas. I will go through the highlights of "prison
specific" items, go to AFGE’s legislative page for broader federal employee issues.
The biggest issue that always faces us is funding. It is the single item that determine’s our
safety and security at work. It challenges our agency in ways that some other federal employees will never fully understand.
In the end, it has affected LMR, safety, how we schedule employees, how we use non-correctional staff and how we move forward
on priorities.
The House of Representatives passed the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill that had 5.17
billion dollars for S&E funding and 95 million in B&F funding (we of course argued for more of both). The Senate passed
a funding bill with 5.15 billion in S&E and 495 million in B&F. When the President and Congress locked horns over
funding priorities and the Iraq war, we took a hit. The Congress ended up being forced to pass a Omnibus Spending bill wrapping
up 12 appropriations bills in one package. The final numbers for prisons is not good. 5.05 billion in S&E and 372 million
in B&F. We lost, without any chance to lobby, 120 million dollars in S&E funding. We were already being told there
was a shortfall of 300 million in funding for items like the pay raise, FERS retirement contributions, rescissions, utility
costs and other items. Our priority after Congress comes back in session is to push for a supplemental funding bill and increase
our 2009 appropriations.
Once again, there was a huge fight over the prison industries program. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) again
took the opportunity in the Defense Bill to cut our program down some more. He placed a section into the National Defense
Authorization Act of 2008, section 827, to modify contracting rules with Department of Defense. DOD is our biggest customer
in FPI. This provision may cause the idling of 6,500 inmates and cause 500 staff positions to be cut from FPI. We fought this
in many ways, but, as Chairman of the committee, he would not allow any amendments to the language. WE all must take our case
to the Judiciary Committee and push for additional programs and authorities for FPI next year. We will also need to contact
the Appropriations Committee and get additional staff postions to handle these idle inmates.
The Agriculture bill almost became a problem as well. Senator Harkin (D-IW) Chair of the committee
attempted to add similar language through an amendment to his bill. However, with the help of Senator Casey (D-PA), Senator
Lincoln (D-AR), Senator Coburn (R-OK) and Senator Thune (R-SD) we caused enough opposition for the amendment to be dropped
right before final passage of the bill. Thank those Senators above from your states for their help.
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) has placed CPL provided language into H.R. 2325 to fix our problem
with LEOSA. We are hopeful the Judiciary Committee will pass this bill in the next session or move our language to a bill
that does pass the House.
We are working with the Judiciary Committee to add more correctional officers (20 million dollars more)
to H.R. 3547 an Anti-Gang piece of legislation. Once this is added and passed, we then have to get the appropriations committee
to fund it.
A bill has been filed H. Res 871 to object to the recent changes approved by the U.S. Sentencing commission.
We are not sure if the bill will move, however, we will keep an eye on it.
One item that passed in the Appropriations bills this year were provisions to not fund A-76 privatization
processes. We will work to eliminate it for FY 2009 also. In addition, we are starting to focus on the huge private prison
contracts and their costs to the BOP. We believe due to the U.S. Sentencing Commission actions, it might be possible to start
eliminating these contracts and bring our work back in house.
The AFL-CIO and AFGE Labor 2008 programs will be gearing up. I encourage each local to get with their
State AFL-CIO and their AFGE District Office to find out what programs are available and how you can get involved. It is essential
we become as active in this as we are representing our members in grievances, negotiations, and other areas. We are large
enough to make a difference in many Congressional Districts and States if we just put some time and effort in.
I want to again thank the E-board for asking me again to be the National Legislative Coordinator. I
hope to make 2008 a very good year for us and hope you all will get active and help. Please sign up for the AFGE Legislative
Conference at www.afge.org and plan to come in Sunday for our Council meeting at 6:00 PM. I will get the issue papers out at least
20 to 30 days prior to that meeting.
In Unity,
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator, CPL
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
NOVEMBER 2007
A quick update on a couple of items. Federal Prison Industries is under continued attack. The Defense
Authorization Act of 2008 still has section 824 in it which makes DOD re-compete contracts for any product FPI has 5 % market
share of. It is projected this will eliminate 6,000 inmate jobs (currently there are 23,000 inmates working in FPI) and eliminate
500 staff positions.
We have not been able, even with the assistance of Senator Specter, Feinstein, Sessions, Congressman
Conyers, Scott and others to eliminate this section from the bill.
A new problem has developed in FPI with the same language from the Defense bill being added to the
Agriculture (farm bill) Authorization act by Senator Tom Harkin. Again, this will force agencies to re-compete contracts FPI
already has secured.
The House and Senate will be going to conference on the Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies
appropriations bills. The President has threatened to veto the bills already.
We have only received about 8 responses to the GAO questions. It is important to fill them out and
send them in to the Council.
Congress is winding down for the holiday’s and will be in limited session. However, last year
in December the Senate attempted to pass, without a vote, changes to FPI. We were able to stop them through Senator Coburn,
however, this year may be more difficult.
Please check the AFGE website and get signed up for the Legislative Conference. Please come in before
6:00pm on Sunday as we will have our traditional Council meeting to go over our issues.
COUNCIL OF PRISON LOCALS
LEGISLATIVE REPORT
From October 23-25, 2007 three of the local E-board members from Local 3951 and I traveled to Washington,
D.C. to educate member’s of Congress on issues important to the bargaining unit.
We met with staff from Congressman Shuster, Congressman Murtha, Senator Casey and Senator Specter’s
office. We hand carried 200 letters on the health care increases to each of these offices. We asked them to support H.R. 1256
a bill to increase the governments share of your health care costs to 80 percent from the current 70 percent now covered.
We discussed FPI and the importance of keeping the program. The Senate’s version of the Defense
Authorization Act, section 824 will eliminate approx. 500 staff positions and 6,000 inmate jobs. The House version has no
such provision. We met with the Judiciary Committee staff and requested assistance in stripping the provision. We will be
monitoring this issue and reporting on it as developments occur.
The Public Safety Act, H.R. 1890 was discussed eliminating federal inmates being held in private prisons.
We asked for all members support in passing this bill.
The House and Senate have each passed versions of the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bills.
They have not gone to conference yet to work out differences in the bills. The House bill has more funding for S&E money
and the Senate version has more money for B&F funding. We hope this will be finalized soon.
There is a Anti-Gang bill moving through the House Judiciary Committee within the month. We are working
on some issues in the bill which will support federal prison workers and help handle this difficult situation.
We had a meeting with GAO (Government Accountability Office) they are performing an investigation for
Congress on reassignments (including temporary reassignments), moral, retaliation and complaints. They are interviewing management,
union and other groups to learn how this affects correctional environments. Council President Bryan Lowry and National FPC
Michael Castelle were on conference call for the meeting. The report is due sometime in early 2008.
Our retirement was discussed with each of the members of Congress and National President John Gage.
He is going to assist us in meeting with the head of the Government Reform Committee in the House of Representatives so we
can discuss the 10 percent penalty situation with him and craft a solution to it for federal law enforcement. We are also
including in these discussions temporary employees who started with the prison and now can not buy back this time or retire
after 20 years because the time as a temporary doesn’t count.
The Law Enforcement Officer’s Safety Act was discussed and what needs done to bring clarity to
the Bureau of Prison’s personnel who are covered under the act but aren’t being treated right by the BOP or by
some law enforcement agencies.
9. AFGE held a Labor 2008 meeting in Pittsburgh, PA from October 25-28, 2007. Issue education of our
members was addressed. There were guest speakers from AFL-CIO, Steelworkers Union, and others. On the weekend, Labor 2008
issues were addressed regarding get out the vote and other issues for the 2008 elections. More will be coming out from the
Council in the future. We are asking all locals that haven’t done so to please send in your L.A.F. checks to AFGE. This
money is critical in getting our message out on issues in the coming year. We will be looking for Council and State coordinators
for Labor 2008, please contact me if you are willing to help.
In Unity,
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator, CPL
COUNCIL OF PRISON LOCALS
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
OCTOBER 2007
On October 2, 2007, the Senate voted on S. 1547/1548 the Defense Authorization Act of 2008. This legislation
included section 824 which changes more contracting rules for Federal Prison Industries. This section, if fully enacted, will
idle 6,000 inmates and eliminate approx. 500 FPI staff positions. While AFGE and the Council had worked very hard to have
an amendment offered to eliminate this section, the Chairman of the Committee, Carl Levin (D-MI) blocked it’s consideration.
We need to thank Senator Sessions (R-AL), Senator Feinstein (D-CA), and Senator Specter (R-PA) for sponsoring the amendment
to eliminate this section.
The Council and AFGE are working to eliminate this section in the Conference Committee between the
House and Senate. Senator Sessions appears to be willing to present his amendment there. We must contact members of the Armed
Services Committee in the House and Senate and ask them to support Senator Sessions.
We are also contacting appropriations members and requesting an additional 1,500 correctional officer
positions to be funded for FY 2008/2009 to keep security under control while inmates go idle.
Currently, the Senate is working on the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related agencies appropriations
bill. The number of the bill is S. 1745. We need the House numbers, which have been put out previously for S&E and the
Senate numbers for B&F. This bill also contains the section to eliminate funding for the A-76 process. We believe this
will pass the Senate.
We have contacted the Judiciary Committee in the House and Senate and discussed the need to fix LEOSA
for our staff. We are gathering information on staff who have been detained from law enforcement because they don’t
know about the law or do not believe Correctional Employees can or should carry concealed weapons.
We will update you through individual E-mails and web updates as we move forward.
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator
CPL
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
SEPTEMBER 2007
Here is the most current information coming from the Council’s convention last week:
1. S. 2010- Private Prison Information Act was introduced in the Senate by Senator Lieberman (I-CT)
on August 3, 2007, this is a companion bill to H.R. 1889 from the House of Representatives. The House bill now has 18 Co-Sponsors.
We must continue to push for Co-Sponsors in both the House and Senate.
2. S. 1548, Section 824- (Senator Carl Levin D-MI) changes contracting rules in the DOD on Federal
Prison Industries. It is worse than the stand alone legislation S. 705 written by the same senator trying to destroy prison
industries and make prisons unsafe. Ask your Senators to vote with Senator Specter (R-PA) and Feinstein (D-CA) to eliminate
section 824.
3. H.R. 1890- The Public Safety Act, eliminates placing federal inmates in private correctional facilities
(except half-way houses). Currently has 14 Co-Sponsors. Please continue to push your representatives to sign on to this bill.
4. The appropriations bills are still being crafted, H.R. 3093 has passed the House and the Senate
bill, S. 1745 is currently on the calender for a vote. Contact your Congressman and Senators to request they keep the House
funding on S&E and the Senate funding on B&F.
5. We are monitoring some LEOSA issues in both the House and the Senate. We are requesting Congress
add section 8 of H.R. 2325 to any LEOSA bill moving through either house of Congress.
6. National President Gage, at the National Convention, checked on our movement with the Thrift Savings
Plan, currently assessing a 10 percent penalty if retiring before age 55. He has pledged to work with the Council and meet
with the necessary Chairman to move this issue forward.
7. While at the convention we were successful in recruiting 108 new PAC members, raising almost 9,000
dollars.
Please take these issues to your Congressional Representatives and Senators. We need your help in moving
these issues forward.
In Unity,
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator
Council of Prison Locals, AFGE
COUNCIL OF PRISON LOCALS
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
JULY 2007
We need to all push hard the
next few weeks on a couple of issues. The House has passed
its version of the Commerce, Justice,
State spending bill. H.R. 3093 funds the prison system at 5.17 billion dollars for S&E and 95 million dollars for B&F.
The Senate’s bill S. 1745 funds the BOP at 5.15 billion dollars for S&E and 495 million for B&F. It is a significant
difference.
Our best bet
is to push for the House’s number on S&E and the Senate’s number on B&F.
We definitely need the construction
dollars in the Senate bill to continue construction and start up some new prisons.
The House bill,
H.R. 3093 has several sections we must get the Senate to agree to. Section 213 of the House bill eliminates the use of security
related dollars for any of the A-76 process which would put a stop to much of this contracting out. We need to keep this in
the final package. There were attempts to remove it on the floor of the House by Republican Pete Sessions (R-TX). There is another section 524 which also eliminates any spending on A-76. One other issue many of you will
be interested in is section 702. It states that no money appropriated in this bill may be used to keep Border Patrol agents
Campeon and Ramos in Federal Prison. I am not sure how this will work. But, it’s interesting.
Another issue
is S.1548, section 824. This is the section in the Defense bill which would cut more of UNICOR. It is estimated that should
this section, as written, make it into law, we could see as many as 6,000 inmates go idle with many staff (500) losing their
FPI positions. Senator Feinstein (D-CA) and Senator Specter (R-PA) have placed an amendment in removing the section. The bill
was pulled from the floor because of issues involving Iraq. At this time, we are not sure when it will be returned to the
Senate floor for action. The House bill has no sections dealing with FPI so the Senate version is what we need to work on.
Please ask your Senator’s to vote with Feinstein and Specter and remove the language.
We still need
co-sponsors on H.R. 2325 which would fix our issue of carrying firearms. We also need co-sponsors on H.R. 1890 regarding private
prisons.
We will keep
you updated on other events. Please keep in contact with your members of Congress.
In Unity,
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator, CPL
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
JUNE 2007
Since the last update we have moved a few items forward. The House Subcommittee on Appropriations for Commerce,
Justice, State and related agencies has agreed to add a restriction on the use of security funds for A-76 studies or privatization
schemes. This is very good news. The House also passed new rules on the A-76 process giving Federal Employees the right to
appeal contracting out decisions the same as contractor’s enjoyed for many years.
We have gained some co-sponsors on HR 1890 and 1889 the two bills dealing with private prisons. We need more
help on these bills. Please call your Congressional representative and ask them to sign on as co-sponsors to these pieces
of legislation.
On June 21st, National President Gage, Alan Kadrofske (our lobbyist) and myself, met with House Judiciary
Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI). We discussed Federal Prison Industries legislation, staffing, assaults, and other
issues dealing with the BOP. The Chairman indicated the committee would hold hearings on FPI and on Correctional Worker’s
safety. They discussed holding a field hearing at a prison sometime in August if possible.
On June 27th, I was invited to Florence, CO to meet with the new FPI board member for Labor, Frank
Gale. Mr. Gale has been appointed to replace outgoing board member Ken Rocks. He is a member of the National FOP board as
the Sgt. at Arms. We had a very good discussion of FPI, it’s role in prison management, the staff issues involved in
FPI and legislation determined to destroy the program. It was a good opportunity to discuss these issues with him as he comes
onto the board of directors. I want to thank all three local Presidents for their hospitality during this visit. All the Presidents
were invited on tour and to participate in the meetings with Mr. Gale.
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
MAY 2007
Our
legislative year is starting out fairly well. For 2007's appropriations we added 143 million to the amount requested by the
President for Salary’s and Expenses. We were successful in adding 300 million to the Building and Facility account.
We
are seeing bills introduced with BOP staff in mind. H.R. 1890 “The Public Safety Act” has been reintroduced by
a bi-partisan group of house members. This bill eliminates, except half way houses, from keeping federal inmates in private
correctional facilities.
H.R.
1889 “The Private Prison Information Act” also has key bi-partisan support and makes private correctional companies
release the same information to Congress as the public facilities must do.
After
problems kept coming up with what was originally titled H.R. 218, we have been successful in having a correction put in H.R.
2325 “Court and Law Enforcement Officer Protection Act of 2007" to allow BOP staff to carry firearms to and from work
with out interference.
H.R.
2391 “Public Safety Officer Family Benefits Act of 2007" would allow spouses and children of LEO’s killed in the
line of duty from keeping their FEHBP health insurance plans. This is a true benefit to LEO’s families.
AFGE
has been working on H.R. 1256 in order to raise the amount currently paid by the government on your health insurance premiums.
It would raise the amount to 80 percent.
I
recently received an E-mail from what is left of CUSA and it’s removed board (Brian Dawe and Richard Loud). It takes
credit for launching the “Public Safety Act” and now the “Private Prison Information Act”. What is
interesting, is first they had my home E-mail, second, that I attended the bill introductions for the original Public Safety
Act introduced by then Congressman Strickland of OH. We had a press conference which was taped and attended by many of our
locals and AFSCME leaders and locals. I didn’t see Mr. Dawe or Loud present at any of these events, nor have I seen
them testify on Capitol Hill regarding issues like understaffing, budgets, appropriations, assaults, FPI or other prison related
issues. I say this to ask why any of our members would pay more money to this group? We need to educate our members and locals
that AFGE and CPL are running a fully functional legislative program.
In Unity,
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator,
CPL -33
COUNCIL OF PRISON LOCALS
LEGISLATIVE ISSUES, 2007
All Locals, please support the following bill, especially Section 8.
HR 2325 IH
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2325
To provide adequate penalties for crimes committed against United States judges and Federal law enforcement
officers, to provide appropriate security for judges and law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 15, 2007
Mr. GOHMERT (for himself, Mr. SMITH of Texas, and Mr. FORBES) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To provide adequate penalties for crimes committed against United States judges and Federal law enforcement
officers, to provide appropriate security for judges and law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Court and Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act of 2007'.
SEC. 2. SPECIAL PENALTIES FOR MURDER, KIDNAPPING, AND RELATED CRIMES AGAINST FEDERAL JUDGES AND FEDERAL
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
(a) Murder- Section 1114 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by inserting `(a)' before `Whoever'; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
`(b) If the victim of an offense punishable under this section is a United States judge or a Federal
law enforcement officer (as those terms are defined in section 115) the offender shall be punished by--
`(1) a fine under this title; and
`(2)(A) in the case of murder, attempted murder, or conspiracy to murder, imprisonment for any term
of years not less than 30 years, or for life, or, if death results, may be sentenced to death;
`(B) in the case of voluntary manslaughter, imprisonment for a term of years not less than 15 years
nor more than 40 years; and
`(C) in the case of involuntary manslaughter, imprisonment for a term of years not less than 3 years
nor more than 15 years.'.
(b) Kidnapping- Section 1201(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following: `If the victim of the offense punishable under this subsection is a United States judge or a Federal law enforcement
officer (as those terms are defined in section 115) the offender shall be punished by a fine under this title and imprisonment
for any term of years not less than 30 years, or for life, or, if death results, may be sentenced to death.'.
SEC. 3. AUTHORITY OF FEDERAL JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS TO CARRY FIREARMS.
(a) In General- Chapter 203 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section
3053 the following:
`Sec. 3054. Authority of Federal judges and prosecutors to carry firearms
`(a) In General- Any justice of the United States or judge of the United States (as defined in section
451 of title 28), any judge of a court created under article I of the United States Constitution, any bankruptcy judge, any
magistrate judge, any United States attorney, and any other officer or employee of the Department of Justice whose duties
include representing the United States in a court of law, may carry firearms.
`(b) Regulations- The Attorney General shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section. Such
regulations may provide for training and regular certification in the use of firearms and shall, with respect to justices,
judges, bankruptcy judges, and magistrate judges, be prescribed after consultation with the Judicial Conference of the United
States.'.
(b) Law Enforcement Officers-
(1) IN GENERAL- Section 926B of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
`(f) For purposes of this section, a law enforcement officer of the Amtrak Police Department or a law
enforcement or police officer of the executive branch of the Federal Government qualifies as an employee of a governmental
agency who is authorized by law to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of, or
the incarceration of any person for, any violation of law, and has statutory powers of arrest.'.
(2) RETIRED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS- Section 926C of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(A) in subsection (c)--
(i) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking `was regularly employed as a law enforcement officer for an aggregate
of 15 years or more' and inserting `served as a law enforcement officer for an aggregate of 10 years or more'; and
(ii) by striking paragraphs (4) and (5), and designating paragraphs (6) and (7) as paragraphs (4) and
(5), respectively;
(B) in subsection (d)--
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking `or' after the semicolon;
(ii) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking the period at the end and inserting `; or'; and
(iii) by adding at the end the following:
`(3) in those States or for those law enforcement agencies that do not issue the identification or
certification required by paragraph (1) or (2)--
`(A) an identification issued by the agency from which the individual retired from service as a law
enforcement officer;
`(B) a photographic identification issued by an agency of the State in which the individual resides,
such as a driver's license or a State identification card; and
`(C) a document issued by the State in which the individual resides that either certifies that the
individual is authorized by the laws of that State to carry a concealed firearm, or, in those States that do not provide mandatory
and objective standards for the issuance of such a license, certifies that the individual has received training in the safe
handling of firearms or has completed a firearms safety or training course for security guards or investigators.'; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
`(f) In this section, the term `service with a public agency as a law enforcement officer' includes
service as a law enforcement officer of the Amtrak Police Department or as a law enforcement or police officer of the executive
branch of the Federal Government.'.
(c) Clerical Amendment- The table of sections for chapter 203 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by inserting after the item relating to section 3053 the following:
`3054. Authority of Federal judges and prosecutors to carry firearms.'.
SEC. 4. PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN ASSAULTS.
Section 111 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking `8 years' and inserting `15 years';
(2) in subsection (b), by striking `20 years' and inserting `30 years'; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
`(c) Law Enforcement Officers and Judges-
`(1) IN GENERAL- If the victim of an assault punishable under this section is a United States judge
or a Federal law enforcement officer (as those terms are defined in section 115) the offender shall be punished by a fine
under this title and--
`(A) if the assault resulted in bodily injury (as that term is defined in section 1365), imprisonment
for a term of years not less than 2 years nor more than 10 years;
`(B) if the assault resulted in substantial bodily injury (as that term is defined in section 113),
imprisonment for a term of years not less than 5 years nor more than 15 years; and
`(C) if a dangerous weapon was used or possessed during and in relation to the offense, or if the assault
resulted in serious bodily injury (as defined in section 2119(2)), imprisonment for a term of years not less than 10 years
nor more than 25 years.
`(2) IMPOSITION OF PUNISHMENT- Each punishment for criminal conduct described in this subsection shall
be in addition to any other punishment, whether imposed for a conviction under this section or otherwise, for other criminal
conduct during the same criminal episode.'.
SEC. 5. SPECIAL PENALTIES FOR RETALIATING AGAINST A FEDERAL JUDGE OR FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
BY MURDERING OR ASSAULTING A FAMILY MEMBER.
Section 115 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
`(c)(1) If an offense punishable under this section is committed with the intent to impede, intimidate,
or interfere with a United States judge or a Federal law enforcement officer while engaged in the performance of official
duties, or with the intent to retaliate against such judge or officer on account of the performance of official duties, the
offender shall be punished--
`(A) in the case of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, or manslaughter, as provided in
section 1114(b);
`(B) in the case of kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, or conspiracy to kidnap, as provided for an offense
against a United States judge or Federal law enforcement officer in section 1201(a);
`(C) in the case of an assault, as provided for an offense against a United States judge or Federal
law enforcement officer in section 111;
`(D) in the case of a threat, by a fine under this title and imprisonment for a term of years not less
than 2 years nor more than 10 years.
`(2) Each punishment for criminal conduct described in this subsection shall be in addition to any
other punishment, whether imposed for a conviction under this section or otherwise, for other criminal conduct during the
same criminal episode.'.
SEC. 6. LIMITATION ON DAMAGES INCURRED DURING COMMISSION OF A FELONY OR CRIME OF VIOLENCE.
(a) In General- Section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) is amended by--
(1) striking `except that in any action' and all that follows through `relief was unavailable.' and
inserting the following: `except that--
`(1) in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's
judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was
unavailable; and
`(2) in any action seeking redress for a deprivation that was incurred in the course of, or as a result
of, or is related to, conduct by the injured party that, more likely than not, constituted a felony or a crime of violence
(as defined in section 16 of title 18, United States Code), including any deprivation in the course of arrest or apprehension
for, or the investigation, prosecution, or adjudication of such an offense, a court shall not have jurisdiction to consider
a claim for damages other than--
`(A) for necessary out-of-pocket expenditures and other monetary loss; and
`(B) if the deprivation consisted of the purposeful infliction of serious bodily injury (as defined
in section 1365 of title 18, United States Code) by the defendant upon the injured party, for additional damages in an amount
that shall not exceed $250,000.'; and
(2) indenting the last sentence as an undesignated paragraph.
(b) Attorney's Fees- Section 722(b) of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1988(b)) is amended by striking
`except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity
such officer shall not be held liable for any costs, including attorneys fees, unless such action was clearly in excess of
such officer's jurisdiction.' and inserting the following: `except that--
`(1) in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's
judicial capacity, such officer shall not be held liable for any costs, including attorneys fees, unless such action was clearly
in excess of such officer's jurisdiction; and
`(2) in any action seeking redress for a deprivation that was incurred in the course of, or as a result
of, or is related to, conduct by the injured party that, more likely than not, constituted a felony or a crime of violence
(as defined in section 16 of title 18, United States Code), including any deprivation in the course of arrest or apprehension
for, or the investigation, prosecution, or adjudication of, such an offense, the court may not allow such party to recover
attorney's fees.'.
(c) Application- This section and the amendments made by this section shall apply to cases pending
on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
SEC. 7. FEDERAL REVIEW OF STATE CONVICTION FOR MURDER OF A PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER OF JUDGE.
(a) Short Title- This section may be cited as the `Police Officer Daniel Faulkner Act of 2007'.
(b) In General- Section 2254 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
`(j) For an application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the
judgment of a State court for a crime that involved the killing of a public safety officer or judge while the public safety
officer or judge was engaged in the performance of official duties, or on account of the public safety officer's or judge's
performance of official duties or status as a public safety officer or judge--
`(1) the application shall be subject to the time limitations and other requirements under sections
2263, 2264, and 2266; and
`(2) the review of the application by the court shall be limited to those claims concerning the validity
of the conviction of the applicant for the underlying offense for which the applicant is held in custody.
`(k) A court shall not consider a claim relating to sentencing mitigation that was adjudicated on the
merits in a State court, unless a determination that the error is not structural is contrary to clearly established Federal
law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States.'.
(c) Finality of Review-
(1) IN GENERAL- Section 2251 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
`(c) Stay of Matters- This section, section 2262, and section 2101 are the exclusive sources of authority
for Federal courts to stay a sentence of death entered by a State court.'.
(2) SECOND OR SUCCESSIVE APPLICATIONS- Section 2244(b)(3)(E) of title 28, United States Code, is amended
by striking `the subject of a petition' and all that follows through the end of the subparagraph and inserting the following:
`reheard in the court of appeals or reviewed by a writ of certiorari.'.
(3) RULES- Rule 11 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the United States District Courts is
amended by adding at the end the following: `Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure does not apply to proceedings
under these rules.'.
(d) Effective Date-
(1) IN GENERAL- This section and the amendments made by this section shall apply to cases pending on
or after the date of enactment of this Act.
(2) PENDING CASES- In a case pending on the date of enactment of this Act, if the amendments made by
this section impose a time limit for taking certain action, the period of which began on the date of an event that occurred
prior to the date of enactment of this Act, the period of such time limit shall instead begin on the date of enactment of
this Act.
SEC. 8. BUREAU OF PRISONS FIREARMS POLICY.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons
shall make rules to allow correctional officers working for the Bureau to carry firearms to and from work and store them in
appropriate facilities at work.
END
COUNCIL OF
PRISON LOCALS
AFGE
LEGISLATIVE ISSUES, 2007
FY 2008 PRESIDENT’S BUDGET, The President has requested 5.15 billion dollars
for Salaries & Expenses and 210 million dollars for Building & Facilities. This represents approximately 177 million
over the passed FY 2007 appropriation for S&E and a reduction of 222 million dollars in the FY 2007 B&F funding. With
Bureau of Prison assault rates up another six (6) percent for FY 2006, the appropriations committee should add an additional
250 million dollars to S&E for increased bargaining unit staffing and an additional 200 million for B&F construction/projects
to increase safety and security in federal prisons.
18 U.S.C. SEC. 926B, In July 2004, Public Law 108-277 was enacted. This law, called
the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act was intended to protect law enforcement officers while off duty and provide additional
law enforcement support when needed in the community. Since it was enacted, the Bureau of Prisons has continued to impede
federal correctional officers from carrying firearms. The Council of Prison Locals requests an amendment to the act, in section
926B (a) which would authorize employees to carry firearms to and from work. The union would bargain over how to safely secure
the weapon’s while on federal property.
THRIFT SAVINGS PLAN, 5 U.S.C. 8440, covers tax treatment of the plan for employees.
Correctional worker’s and other law enforcement personnel, can retire at age 50 after 20 years of service, and at any
age after 25 years of federal service. Currently, there is a 10 percent penalty if employees draw funds from their TSP account
prior to age 59 ½. The Council of Prison Locals believes that since we are required to retire at age 57 and can retire at
age 50, the penalty should be removed. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 provided this same benefit for local and state law
enforcement and firefighters. All we ask for is the same consideration for federal law enforcement.
FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, The Council opposes any changes to FPI mandatory source
until amendments protecting the BOP staff and authorizing repatriation of work from overseas are passed with the legislation.
With the continued increase of inmates into the federal system, work programs like FPI become more and more important. The
Council is willing to work on language to effect the changes Congress wants while preserving our safety and security.
PRIVATE PRISONS, Congress should eliminate funds for the study or conducting A-76
or related privatization schemes. Any funds security funding for the Bureau of Prisons appropriated by Congress should be
used for operating federal prison facilities not failed private prisons.
HCON RES 37, Expressing the sense of Congress that Border Patrol agent’s Ramos
and Compean be pardoned. The Council of Prison Locals support our brother’s and sister’s in the Border Patrol
who are calling for the pardon of these two officers.
H.R. 261, Amending Title 18, U.S.C. to provide an alternate release date for certain
non-violent offenders. The Council supports this type of legislation IF should the inmate population decrease, private prison
contracts are ended and remaining inmates stay in federal BOP custody.
In Unity,
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator,
C-33
TO AMEND Public Law 108-277 to allow LEO’s to carry to and from
work for their protection:
In General- 18 U.S.C. Section 926B is amended as follows:
Add a sentence at the end of section (a) which states:
Law Enforcement Officers, as defined in 18 U.S.C. section 3050, are authorized to carry their personal
firearms to and from their place of employment and will be provided space to secure such firearms.
TO AMEND THE APPROPRIATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS TO ELIMINATE SPENDING
ON ITEMS THAT CUTS SECURITY FUNDING:
Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies:
An amendment to Bureau of Prisons appropriations in the appropriate section and line:
Security related funding appropriated under this act shall not be used for privatization studies or
conducting A-76 surveys.
TO AMEND the THRIFT SAVINGS PLAN to eliminate the 10 percent early withdraw
penalty imposed by the IRS on Federal Law Enforcement Officers:
In General- 5 U.S.C. Section 8440 (a) is amended as follows:
Add subsection (4) which will state:
(4) In General- In the case of a Law Enforcement Officer who is employed by the federal government,
disbursements from the Thrift Savings Plan will not be penalized by the IRS once the LEO begins his/her LEO retirement (20
years at 50 years of age or 25 years at any age).
BOP FACILITIES – U.S.
SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
BOP Facility
Senators
Representatives
Mid-Atlantic Region
FPC Alderson
Robert Byrd (D)
Nick Rahall (D-3)
Glen Ray Road, Box A John D. Rockefeller IV (D)
Alderson, WV 24910
(304) 445-2901
FCI Ashland
Mitch McConnell (R) Geoff Davis (R-4)
St. Route 716
Jim Bunning (R)
Ashland, KY 41105
(606) 928-6414
FCI Beckley
Robert Byrd (D)
Nick Rahall (D-3)
1600 Industrial Road
John D. Rockefeller IV (D)
Beaver, WV 25813
(304) 252-9758
USP Big Sandy
Mitch McConnell (R) Harold Rogers (R-5)
1197 Airport Road
Jim Bunning (R)
Inez, KY 41224
(606) 433-2577
FCI Butner (Low)
Elizabeth Dole (R)
Brad Miller (D-13)
Old NC Highway
75 Richard
Burr (R)
Butner, NC 27509
(919) 575-5700
FCI Butner (Medium)
Elizabeth Dole (R)
Brad Miller (D-13)
Old NC Highway
75 Richard Burr (R)
Butner, NC 27509
(919) 575-4541
FMC Butner
Elisabeth Dole (R)
Brad Miller (D-13)
Old NC Highway
75 Richard Burr (R)
Butner, NC 27509
(919) 575-3900
FCI Cumberland
Benjamin Cardin (D) Roscoe Bartlett (R-6)
14601 Burbridge Road SE Barbara Mikulski (D)
Cumberland, MD 21502
(301) 784-1000
FCI Gilmer
Robert Byrd (D)
Alan Mollohan (D-1)
201 FCI Lane
John D. Rockefeller IV (D)
Glenville, WV 26351
(304) 462-0395
USP Hazelton
Robert Byrd (D)
Alan Mollohan (D-1)
Sky View Drive
John D. Rockefeller IV (D)
Bruceton Mills, WV 26525
(304) 379-5000
USP Lee
John Warner (R)
Rick Boucher (D-9)
P.O. Box 900
Jim Webb (D)
Jonesville, VA 24263
(276) 546-0150
FMC Lexington
Mitch McConnell (R) Ben Chandler (D-6)
3301 Leestown Road
Jim Bunning (R)
Lexington, KY 40511
(859) 255-6812
FCI Manchester
Mitch McConnell (R) Harold Rogers (R-5)
805 Fox Hollow Road
Jim Bunning (R)
Manchester, KY 40962
(606) 598-1900
USP McCreary
Mitch McConnell (R) Harold Rogers (R-5)
330 Federal Way
Jim Bunning (R)
Pine Knot, KY 42635
(606) 354-7000
FCI Memphis
Bob Corker (R)
Stephen Cohen (D-9)
1101 John A. Denie Road Lamar Alexander (R)
Memphis, TN 38134-7630
(901) 372-2269
FCI Morgantown
Robert Byrd (D)
Alan Mollohan (D-1)
446 Greenbag Road
John D. Rockefeller IV (D)
Morgantown, WV 26507
(304) 296-4416
FCI Petersburg
(Low) John Warner (R)
Randy Forbes (R-4)
1100 River Road
Jim Webb (D)
Petersburg, VA 23860-1659
(804) 733-7881
FCI Petersburg
(Medium) John Warner (R)
Randy Forbes (R-4)
1060 River Road
Jim Webb (D)
Petersburg, VA 23860-1666
(804) 504-7200
North Central Region
MCC Chicago
Richard Durbin (D)
Danny Davis (D-7)
71 West Van Buren
Barack Obama (D)
Chicago, IL 60605
(312) 322-0567
FPC Duluth
Amy Klobuchar (D)
Jim Oberstar (D-8)
6902 Airport Road
Norm Coleman (R)
Duluth, MN 55814
(218) 722-8634
FCI Englewood
Wayne Allard (R) Ed Perlmutter (D-7)
9595 West Quincy
Ave.
Ken Salazar (D)
Littleton, CO 80123-1159
(303) 985-1566
ADX Florence
Wayne Allard (R) Doug Lamborn (R-5)
5880 State Highway 67 S. Ken Salazar (D)
Florence, CO 81226
(719) 784-9464
FCI Florence
Wayne Allard (R)
Doug Lamborn (R-5)
5880 State Highway 67 S. Ken Salazar (D)
Florence, CO 81226
(719) 784-9100
USP Florence
Wayne Allard (R)
Doug Lamborn (R-5)
5880 State Highway 67 S. Ken Salazar (D)
Florence, CO 81226
(719) 784-9454
FCI Greenville
Richard Durbin (D)
John Shimkus (R-19)
100 U.S.
Route 40
Barack Obama (D)
Greenville, IL 62246
(618) 664-6200
USP Leavenworth
Sam Brownback (R)
Nancy Boyda (D-2)
1300 Metropolitan
Pat Roberts (R)
Leavenworth, KS 66048
(913) 682-8700
USP Marion
Richard Durbin (D)
John Shimkus (R-19)
4500 Prison Road
Barack Obama (D)
Marion, IL 62959-9011
(618) 964-1441
FCI Milan
Carl Levin (D)
John Dingell (D-15)
East Arkona Road Debbie Stabenow (D)
Milan, MI 48160
(734) 439-1511
FCI Oxford
Herbert Kohl (D)
Tom Petri (R-6)
Box 500
Russ Feingold (D)
Oxford, WI 53952
(608) 584-5511
FCI Pekin
Richard Durbin (D)
Ray LaHood (R-18)
2600 S. Second Street
Barack Obama (D)
Pekin, IL 61555
(309) 346-8588
FMC Rochester
Amy Klobuchar (D)
Tim Walz (D-1)
P.O. Box 4600
Norm Coleman (R)
Rochester, MN 55903
(507) 287-0674
FCI Sandstone
Amy Klobuchar (D)
Jim Oberstar (D-8)
P.O. Box 999
Norm Coleman (R)
2300 County Road 29
Sandstone, MN 55072
(320) 245-2262
MCFP Springfield
Christopher Bond (R) Roy
Blunt (R-7)
P.O. Box 4000
Claire McCaskill (D)
1900 West Sunshine
Springfield, MO 65801
(417) 862-7041
FCI Terre Haute
Richard Lugar (R)
Brad Ellsworth (D-8)
4200 Bureau Road North
Evan Bayh (D)
Terre Haute, IN 47808
(812) 238-1531
USP Terre Haute
Richard Lugar (R)
Brad Ellsworth (D-8)
4700 Bureau Road South Evan Bayh (D)
Terre Haute, IN 47802
(812) 244-4400
FCI Waseca
Amy Klobuchar (D)
Tim Walz (D-1)
P.O. Box 1731
Norm Coleman (R)
1000 University Drive SW
Waseca, MN 56093
(507) 835-8972
FPC Yankton
Tim Johnson (D)
Stephanie Herseth (D-At
Box 680
John Thune (R)
Large)
1016 Douglas Ave.
Yankton, SD 57078
(605) 665-3262
Northeast Region
FCI Allenwood (Low)
Arlen Specter (R)
Chris Carney (D-10)
P.O. Box 1500
Bob Casey (D)
White Deer, PA 17887
(570) 547-1990
FCI Allenwood (Medium)
Arlen Specter (R)
Chris Carney (D-10)
P.O. Box 2500
Bob Casey (D)
White Deer, PA 17887
(570) 547-7950
USP Allenwood
Arlen Specter (R)
Chris Carney (D-10)
P.O. Box 3500
Bob Casey (D)
White Deer, PA 17887
(570) 547-0963
MDC Brooklyn
Charles Schumer (D)
Nydia Velazquez (D-12)
80 29th Street
Hillary Rodham
Clinton (D)
Brooklyn, NY 11232-1503
(718) 840-4200
USP Canaan
Arlen Specter (R)
Chris Carney (D-10)
2020 Canaan Road Bob Casey (D)
Waymart, PA 18472
(570) 488-8000
FCI Danbury
Christopher Dodd (D) Christopher
Murphy (D-5)
33 ½ Pembroke Road Joseph Lieberman
(D)
Danbury, CT 06811-2954
(203) 743-6471
FMC Devens
Edward Kennedy (D)
Marty Meehan (D-5)
42 Patton Road
John Kerry (D)
Devens, MA 01432
(978) 796-1000
FCI Elkton
Sherrod Brown (D)
Charlie Wilson (D-6)
P.O. Box 89
George Voinovich (R)
8730 Scroggs Road
Elkton, OH 44415
(330) 424-7448
FCI Fairton
Frank Lautenberg (D) Frank
LoBiondo (R-2)
P.O. Box 280
Robert Menendez (D)
Fairton, NJ 08320
(856) 453-1177
FCI Fort Dix
Frank Lautenberg (D) Jim
Saxon (R-3)
P.O. Box 38
Robert Menendez (D)
Fort Dix, NJ 08640
(609) 723-1100
USP Lewisburg
Arlen Specter (R)
Chris Carney (D-10)
R.D. #5
Bob Casey (D)
Lewisburg, PA 17837
(570) 523-1251
FCI Loretto
Arlen Specter (R)
Bill Shuster (R-9)
P.O. Box 1000
Bob Casey (D)
Loretto, PA 15940
(814) 472-4140
FCI McKean
Arlen Specter (R)
John Peterson (R-5)
P.O. Box 5000
Bob Casey (D)
Bradford, PA 16701
(814) 362-8900
MCC New York
Charles Schumer (D)
Jerrold Nadler (D-8)
150 Park Row
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
New York, NY 10007
(212) 240-9656
FCI Otisville
Charles Schumer (D)
John Hall (D-19)
P.O. Box 600
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
Otisville, NY 10963
(845) 386-5855
FDC Philadelphia
Arlen Specter (R)
Robert Brady (D-1)
700 Arch Street
Bob Casey (D)
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(215) 521-4000
FCI Ray Brook
Charles Schumer (D)
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-20)
P.O. Box 300
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
Ray Brook, NY 12977
(518) 891-5400
FCI Schuykill
Arlen Specter (R)
Tim Holden (D-17)
P.O. Box 700
Bob Casey (D)
Minersville, PA 17954
(570) 544-7100
South Central Region
FCI Bastrop
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Ruben Hinojosa (D-15)
Box 730
John Cornyn (R)
1341 Highway 95 North
Bastrop, TX 78602-6819
(512) 321-3903
FCI Beaumont (Low)
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Ted Poe (R-2)
P.O. Box 26025
John Cornyn (R)
Beaumont, TX 77720
(409) 727-8172
FCI Beaumont
(Medium) Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Ted Poe (R-2)
P.O. Box 26045
John Cornyn (R)
Beaumont, TX 77720
(409) 727-0101
USP Beaumont
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Ted Poe (R-2)
P.O. Box 26035
John Cornyn (R)
Beaumont, TX 77720
(409) 727-8188
FCI Big Spring
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Randy Neugebauer (R-19)
1900 Simler Avenue John Cornyn (R)
Big Spring, TX 79720
(432) 263-6699
FPC Bryan
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Chet Edwards (D-17)
P.O. Box 2197
John Cornyn (R)
1100 Ursuline Avenue
Bryan, TX 77805
(979) 823-1879
FMC Carswell
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Kay Granger (R-12)
P.O. Box 27066
John Cornyn (R)
“J” Street, Building 3000
Fort Worth, TX 76127
(817) 782-4002
FCI El Reno
James Inhofe (R)
Frank Lucas (R-3)
P.O. Box 1000
Tom Coburn (R)
4205 Highway 66 West
El Reno, OK 73036
(405) 262-4875
FCI Forrest City (Low) Blanche L. Lincoln (D)
Marion Berry (D-1)
1400 Dale Bumpers Road Mark Pryor (D)
Forrest City, AR 72335
(870) 630-6000
FCI Forrest City (Medium) Blanche L. Lincoln (D)
Marion Berry (D-1)
1301 Dale Bumpers Road Mark Pryor (D)
Forrest City, AR 72335
(870) 494-4200
FMC Fort Worth
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Michael Burgess (R-26)
3150 Horton Road
John Cornyn (R)
Fort Worth, TX 76119
(817) 534-8400
FDC Houston
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Sheila Jackson Lee (D-18)
P.O. Box 526245
John Cornyn (R)
1200 Texas Avenue
Houston, TX 77052
(713) 221-5400
FCI La Tuna
Pete Domenici (R)
Steve Pearce (R-2)
P.O. Box 100 0
Jeff Bingaman (D)
8500 Doniphan
Anthony, NM 88021
(915) 886-6600
FSL La Tuna
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Silvestre Reyes (D-16)
P.O. Box 16300
John Cornyn (R)
SSG Sims Road
Building 11636
El Paso, TX 79906
(915) 564-2100
FCI Oakdale
Mary Landrieu (D)
Rodney Alexander (R-5)
P.O. Box 5050
David Vitter (R)
Oakdale, LA 71463
(318) 335-4070
FDC Oakdale
Mary Landrieu (D)
Rodney Alexander (R-5)
P.O. Box 5060
David Vitter (R)
Oakdale, LA 71463
(318) 335-4466
FTC Oklahoma City James Inhofe
(R)
Mary Fallin (R-5)
P.O. Box 898802
Tom Coburn (R)
7410 MacArthur Boulevard
Oklahoma City, OK 73189
(405) 682-4075
USP Pollock
Mary Landrieu (D)
Jim McCrery (R-4)
P.O. Box 1000
David Vitter (R)
1000 Airbase Road
Pollock, LA 71467
(318) 561-5300
FCI Seagoville
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Jeb Hensarling (R-5)
2113 North Highway 175
John Cornyn (R)
Seagoville, TX 75159-2237
(972) 287-2911
FCI Texarkana
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Ralph Hall (R-4)
P.O. Box 9500
John Cornyn (R)
Texarkana, TX 75505
(903) 838-4587
FCI Three Rivers
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Lloyd Doggett (D-25)
P.O. Box 4000
John Cornyn (R)
Three Rivers, TX 78071
(361) 786-3576
Southeast Region
USP Atlanta
Saxby Chambliss (R) John
Lewis (D-5)
601 McDonough Blvd. SE Johnny Isakson (R)
Atlanta, GA 30315-4400
(404) 635-5100
FCI Bennettsville
Lindsay Graham (R) John Spratt (D-5)
696 Muckerman Road
Jim DeMint (R)
Bennettsville, SC 29512
(843) 454-8200
FCI Coleman (Low)
Bill Nelson (D)
Ginny Brown-Waite (R-5)
846 NE 54th Terrace Mel
Martinez (R)
Coleman, FL 33521
(352) 689-4000
FCI Coleman (Medium)
Bill Nelson (D)
Ginny Brown-Waite (R-5)
846 NE 54th Terrace Mel
Martinez (R)
Coleman, FL 33521
(352) 689-5000
USP Coleman
Bill Nelson (D)
Ginny Brown-Waite (R-5)
846 NE 54th Terrace Mel
Martinez (R)
Coleman, FL 33521
(352) 689-6000
FCI Edgefield
Lindsay Graham (R)
J. Gresham Barrett (R-3)
P.O. Box 723
Jim DeMint (R)
501 Gary Hill Road
Edgefield, SC 29824
(803) 637-1500
FCI Estill
Lindsay Graham (R)
Joe Wilson (R-2)
P.O. Box 699
Jim DeMint (R)
100 Prison Road
Estill, SC 29918
(803) 625-4607
MDC Guaynabo
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Luis Fortuno (R-At Large)
P.O. Box 2146
San Juan, Puerto Rico
00922
(787) 749-4480
FCI Jesup
Saxby Chambliss (R) Jack
Kingston (R-1)
2600 Highway 301 S.
Johnny Isakson (R)
Jesup, GA 31599
(912) 427-0870
FCI Marianna
Bill Nelson (D)
Allen Boyd (D-2)
3625 FCI Road
Mel Martinez (R)
Marianna, FL 32446
(850) 526-2313
FCI Miami
Bill Nelson (D)
Mario Diaz-Balart (R-25)
15801 SW 137th Avenue Mel Martinez (R)
Miami, FL 33177-1209
(305) 259-2100
FDC Miami
Bill Nelson (D)
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R18)
P.O. Box 019118
Mel Martinez (R)
33 NE 4th Street
Miami, FL 33132-2111
(305) 577-0010
FPC Montgomery
Richard Shelby (R)
Terry Everett (R-2)
Maxwell Air Force Base
Jeff Sessions (R)
Montgomery, AL 36112
(334) 293-2100
FPC Pensacola
Bill Nelson (D)
Jeff Miller (R-1)
110 Raby Avenue
Mel Martinez (R)
Pensacola, FL 32509
(850) 457-1911
FCI Talladega
Richard Shelby (R)
Michael Rogers (R-3)
565 East Renfro Road
Jeff Sessions (R)
Talladega, AL 35160
(256) 315-4100
FCI Tallahassee
Bill Nelson (D)
Ander Crenshaw (R-4)
501 Capital Circle NE Mel Martinez
(R)
Tallahassee, FL 32301-3558
(850) 878-2173
FCI Williamsburg
Lindsay Graham (R) James Clyburn (D-6)
8301 Highway 521
Jim DeMint (R)
Salters, SC 29590
(843) 387-9400
FCI Yazoo City
Thad Cochran (R)
Benny Thompson (D-2)
P.O. Box 5050
Trent Lott (R)
Yazoo City, MS 39194
(662) 751-4800
Western Region
USP Atwater
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Dennis Cardoza (D-18)
P.O. Box 019000
Barbara Boxer (D)
1 Federal Way
Atwater, CA 95301
(209) 386-0257
FCI Dublin
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Jerry McNerney (D-11)
5701 8th Street,
Barbara Boxer (D)
Camp Parks
Dublin, CA 94568
(925) 833-7500
FCI Herlong
Dianne Feinstein (D)
John Doolittle (R-4)
741-925 Access Rd. A-25 Barbara Boxer (D)
Herlong, CA 96113
(530) 827-8000
FDC Honolulu
Daniel Inouye (D)
Neil Abercrombie (D-1)
351 Elliott Street
Daniel Akaka (D)
P.O. Box 30547
Honolulu, HI 96820
(808) 838-4200
FCI Lompoc
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Elton Gallegly (R-24)
3600 Guard Road
Barbara Boxer (D)
Lompoc, CA 93436-2705
(805) 736-4154
USP Lompoc
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Elton Gallegly (R-24)
3901 Klein Blvd.
Barbara Boxer (D)
Lompac, CA 93436-2706
MDC Los Angeles Dianne
Feinstein (D) Lucille
Roybal-Allard (D34)
535 N. Alameda Street Barbara Boxer
(D)
Los Angeles, CA 90012-3405
(213) 485-0439
FCI Phoenix
John McCain (R)
John Shadegg (R-3)
37900 N. 45th Avenue Jon Kyl (R)
Phoenix, AZ 85068
(623) 465-9757
FCI Safford
John McCain (R)
Rick Renzi (R-1)
P.O. Box 820
Jon Kyl (R)
1529 W. Hwy. 366
Safford, AZ 85548
(928) 428-6600
MCC San Diego
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Susan Davis (D-53)
808 Union Street
Barbara Boxer (D)
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 232-4311
FDC Seatac
Patty Murray (D)
Adam Smith (D-9)
P.O. Box 13900
Maria Cantwell (D)
Seattle, WA 98198
(206) 870-5700
FCI Sheridan
Ron Wyden (D)
David Wu (D-1)
27072 SW Ballston Rd.
Gordon Smith (R)
Sheridan, OR 97378-9620
(503) 843-4442
FCI Terminal Island
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Dana Rohrabacher (R-46)
1299 Seaside
Avenue Barbara Boxer (D)
Reservation Point
Terminal Island, CA 90731
(310) 831-8961
FCI Tucson
John McCain (R)
Gabrielle Giffords (D-8)
8901 South Wilmot Road
Jon Kyl (R)
Tucson, AZ 85706-9700
(520) 574-7100
FCI Victorville Medium I
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Howard McKeon (R-25)
13777 Air Expressway
Barbara Boxer (D)
Victorville, CA 92394
(760) 246-2400
FCI Victorville Medium II
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Howard McKeon (R-25)
13777 Air Expressway
Barbara Boxer (D)
Victorville, CA 92394
(760) 530-5700
USP Victorville
Dianne Feinstein (D)
Howard McKeon (R-25)
13777 Air Expressway
Barbara Boxer (D)
Victorville, CA 92394
(760) 530-5000
In Unity,
Phil Glover
Legislative Coordinator,
C-33
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