Support Federal Correctional Officers -- Sign the Petition!

Each day in the nation's woefully understaffed and severely overcrowded federal prisons, correctional officers face hazardous and sometimes deadly conditions. In 2008, a correctional officer was murdered by inmates in a California federal prison. A look at AFGE's Council of Prison Locals website shows assaults against officers and inmate violence are almost a daily occurrence.

Yet the federal Bureau of Prisons is refusing to use tens of millions of dollars specifically appropriated by Congress to hire more officers to help bring prisons under more secure control and reduce the violence for both correctional officers and inmates.

Sign our petition and join AFGE's Council of Prison Locals in urging U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to order Bureau of Prisons management to use the appropriated funds to hire more officers, fire Bush-era BOP Director Harley Lappin and hire 9,000 additional correctional officers. The new officers would return Bureau of Prisons staffing to 1997 levels.

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