![]() ![]() In a report issued in February, the Government Accountability Office said that from fiscal years 2015 to 2019, BOP spent about $824 million on overtime and from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2019, the bureau’s reliance on augmentation (in which non-custody employees are assigned to custody roles, such as those of correctional officers) increased by 47%. Moore added that it's often “super hard” to get staffing numbers from the agency. BOP has tried to “ramp up” hiring, but “I feel like this is three steps back for us,” she said. Moore said her personal guess is that the prisons bureau “may lose 10-20% of our staff,” which is “troublesome” because “staffing is our No. “And that’s a struggle for us as well… we do feel like it should be an individual’s choice” whether or not he or she gets vaccinated. I don’t feel like this is a mandate that is constitutional,’ ” Moore said. ![]() “The national union is very concerned about the amount of people that have actually said ‘I’m going to retire early, I’m going to quit, I’m going to go somewhere else. She said she believes the “vast majority” of the upper management officials at BOP are vaccinated. The prisons bureau told the union that about 52% of staff are vaccinated, Moore told Government Executive on October 4. I think they just think that you know, ‘Hey it’s the government they can tell you what they want you to do.’ ” However, she said there has also been a lot of pushback and concern about the mandate for a variety of reasons, such as: this was not a condition of employment, flu shots are not mandated, there is limited research on the long-term effects of the shots and inmates are not required to be vaccinated. “We do have a handful of people that are like, ‘They’re necessary’ say they’re scared for their health. President Biden announced on September 9 a vaccine mandate for federal employees and contractors, unless they request an exemption.īrandy Moore, national union secretary treasurer for Council of Prison Locals C-33, a division of the American Federation of Government Employees, said she has seen some “back and forth” conversation within the bureau regarding the vaccine mandate. ![]() Currently, there are 455 inmate and 476 staff active cases. Ten of the inmate deaths were for those in home confinement. There had been 261 inmates and six staff deaths. As of Monday, 42,988 inmates and 7,809 staff had recovered from the coronavirus, according to BOP's data. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is one of the federal agencies that was hit particularly hard by the pandemic, due to staff and inmates rotating frequently and sharing close quarters. The Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate is being met with skepticism and criticism from federal prisons employees, prompting some to consider leaving the government. ![]()
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