Corrections
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Public Safety Spotlight: Despite the danger, a Maryland corrections officer knows her work is changing lives
Maryland Corrections Officer Ofonime Akpabio perseveres despite danger. Read More
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Never Quit Award winner teaches inmates to develop a green thumb
Amy Coonce is a horticulture instructor at the minimum-security Robinson Correctional Center in Robinson, Illinois. Read More
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AFSCME President Saunders: Honor America’s corrections officers by keeping them safe
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement for National Correctional Officers Week, May 7-13, 2023: “Every day, corrections officers across the country are hard at work protecting our communities. Even in the most challenging circumstances – like those they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic – they demonstrate what it means to serve with courage,… Read More
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Protecting Corrections and 24/7 Workers from Overtime Abuse
WHEREAS: Oregon AFSCME Council 75 represents corrections workers, mental health and behavioral health workers in secure, semi-secure and non-secure 24-hour, seven day a week settings; and WHEREAS: For decades, employers have used overtime as a regular part of their staffing system, and not as a rare emergency but as a regular and daily occurrence; and… Read More
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Crisis in Corrections
WHEREAS: AFSCME represents 85,000 dedicated corrections personnel across the country; and WHEREAS: Corrections personnel showed up for work on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes without adequate personal protective equipment. Due to the nature of corrections work, officers and other staff were unable to maintain safe distances from their co-workers and inmates in… Read More
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Corrections
We’re 62,000 corrections officers and 23,000 corrections employees who’ve joined forces in AFSCME to fight for better pay and benefits, for safe workplaces, and to uphold the standard of professionalism in our field. Our members are men and women working all across the country, in both maximum- and minimum-security facilities, state prisons and county jails.… Read More
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