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Safety Concerns Grow as Inmates Are Guarded by Teachers and Secretaries

As the Trump administration has curtailed hiring in its quest to reduce the size of the government, some prisons are so pressed for guards that they regularly compel teachers, nurses, secretaries and other support staff to step in.

It was not uncommon in the past for prisons to occasionally call upon support workers as substitute guards, especially in emergencies. The practice, which leaves other prison functions short-handed, came under criticism during the Obama administration, which moved in its final year to cut back.

But as the shortage of correctional officers has grown chronic under President Trump — and the practice of drawing upon other workers has become routine — many prisons have been operating in a perpetual state of staffing turmoil, leaving some workers feeling ill-equipped and unsafe on the job, according to interviews and internal documents from the Bureau of Prisons.

Dozens of workers from prisons across the country said inmates had become more brazen with staff members and more violent with one another. At a prison in West Virginia, violent incidents increased almost 15 percent in 2017 from the year before, according to data obtained by The New York Times. Workers blame the problems on their depleted numbers and the need to push often inexperienced staff members into front-line correctional roles, changes not lost on the prison population.

“When you’re an officer and in the units for eight hours a day, you get to know the inmates,” said a teacher at a Florida prison who was not authorized to speak to the news media. “You can tell when a fight is about to happen. I don’t have that background.” The teacher added: “The inmates see this and they know we are outnumbered. They know we have people working in the units who don’t have the slightest idea what to do.”

 

Murphy is someone to keep an eye on. He was the house rep for Newtown before moving on to the senate. Very well spoken. This is a guy who could talk circles around Trump’s bullshit.

 

I have a lot of concern for my country, that’s why I didn’t vote for the most corrupt piece of human garbage to ever walk this planet.

 

Thread worth reading. I thought I had heard most of the Watergate stories, but this was a new one on me.

 

But yet you’ll vote for him in 2020 because he makes liberals angry?

 

Caputo?

 

Haldeman was chief of staff, not Ehrlichman.

 

It wasn't Yalta. It was in the first conference, in Tehran. And Churchill later set the record straight by conceding that it was after a lot of drinking, that Stalin probably was, in fact, joking, and that FDR's son, Elliott, later exaggerated his account of the meeting. Said Churchill:

29th November 1943: Stalin to Churchill – ‘Let’s shoot top 50,000 Germans’